completely sincere…Perceptions Of Better Help Clients… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so just 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 official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four options three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 connect 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor 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 less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard 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 few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Perceptions Of Better Help Clients
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so