extremely truthful…Change Pin Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve 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 provide you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 believe that better assistance uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first official 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 know that all four options three really to me however they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone 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 specifically considering that better aid 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 believe truly 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 Change Pin Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared very strangely 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 then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so