extremely truthful…Pre Engagement Counseling Better Help… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey 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 much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in 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 internet 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 sign up with 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy 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 meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders 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 available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Pre Engagement Counseling Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo 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 creates a line break so