completely truthful…Premera Better Help… review of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic process to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned 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 always the case and i believe that better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk 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 regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three really to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 therapist to join and they will link 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 very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then 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 think this does vary by counselor but 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 carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that much better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Premera Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 image 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 extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so