brutally sincere…Micheal Phekpz Better Help… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out 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 always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to 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 immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 counselor 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and extremely hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay 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 especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Micheal Phekpz Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only 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 then 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 do not send it in fact creates a line break so