brutally truthful…Phelps Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk 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 however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item 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 selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Phelps Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image 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 creates a line break so