extremely honest…Tracy Bell Better Help… evaluation of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend 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 links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get started so first you complete 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 produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions 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 better assistance uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very 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 always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment 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 wait for your counselor to join 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically considering 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 however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Tracy Bell Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so