brutally honest…Oren Frank Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can set up 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 good to know that all 4 options three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous 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 web 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely practical and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Oren Frank Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so