brutally sincere…Nicole Amesbury Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives three really to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 on 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 discuss 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 counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and very accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of 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 thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Nicole Amesbury Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so