brutally truthful…Thomas Hull Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out 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 think that better aid uses both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 counselor to sign up with and they will connect 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 probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and extremely practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Thomas Hull Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so