completely sincere…Review Section Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think 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 then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish 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 more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference 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 excellent to know that all four alternatives three really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you await your therapist to sign up with 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 just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address 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 most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent 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 believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very practical and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Review Section Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared very 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need 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 really develops a line break so