extremely honest…Sending Long Messages On Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best 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 therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist 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 established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall 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 utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options 3 really to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 counselor to join and they will link 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 just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think 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 actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really practical and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders 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 definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that better aid 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 imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Sending Long Messages On Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so