brutally sincere…Youtubers Involved In Better Help… review of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then 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 always the case and i think that better help provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices three really to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 for your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 problems 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid 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 believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Youtubers Involved In Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately 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 individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so