completely truthful…Therapist Vs Better Help… evaluation of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help 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 preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives three really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait for your therapist to join and they will connect 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Therapist Vs Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so