completely honest…What Podcasts Does Better Help Sponsor… review of much better assistance i’ve been using 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 then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you await 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very convenient and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely 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 readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing What Podcasts Does Better Help Sponsor
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek 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