extremely sincere…Michael Phelps Better Help Robot… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i believe 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 looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you wait on your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely convenient and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Michael Phelps Better Help Robot
or talking or messaging during a session images 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so