extremely honest…The Dollop Better Help Compilation… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing 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 walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 think that much better aid offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four choices three truly to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because 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 then you await 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve 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 therapist 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 but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very available and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better assistance 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing The Dollop Better Help Compilation
or messaging or talking 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so