extremely truthful…Therapist In Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a quite basic process to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce 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 likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 believe that much better help offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability 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 routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment 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 internet 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 for 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of 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 feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling 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 actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Therapist In Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so