extremely truthful…Talkspac… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid uses both types of mental health specialists so just 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 meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous 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 after that you wait on your counselor 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 start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very practical and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few 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 type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Talkspac
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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that 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 outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so