extremely sincere…My Better Help Therapist Barely Responds… review of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health professionals 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 very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing My Better Help Therapist Barely Responds
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so