extremely honest…The Dollop Better Help Ad… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main 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 good to know that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences 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 comfortable 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 address 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 differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid 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 biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely hassle-free and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty 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 few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing The Dollop Better Help Ad
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really strangely 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so