completely honest…Oren Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized 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 offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however 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 formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy 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 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 for 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that 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 believe this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid 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 believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Oren Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared really 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 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 just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so