completely sincere…Michael Phelps Better Help Detroit Become Human… review of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you await your therapist to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Michael Phelps Better Help Detroit Become Human
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so