brutally honest…Providing Better Help To Employees… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so initially you complete 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 pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak 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 often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four options three truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably 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 want to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 however i have paid 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 better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips 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 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering 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 really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Providing Better Help To Employees
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so