extremely sincere…Salon And Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help 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 counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better aid provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Salon And Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really 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 choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so