extremely sincere…Why Am I Being Targeted By Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy process to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 options 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait on your therapist 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very convenient for many 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 video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better aid 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Why Am I Being Targeted By Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need 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 actually produces a line break so