extremely truthful…Text Therapy Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually 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 give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns 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 however that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices 3 really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 wait on 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that 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 counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and very hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Text Therapy Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview 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 press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so