extremely honest…Nicolesmith-perez Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would advise better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best 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 treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce 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 cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up 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 instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried 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 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 await 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 conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in 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 very first conference 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that 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 counselor in particular i believe this does vary 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Nicolesmith-perez Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so