extremely sincere…Wine And Crime Betterhelp… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much 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 after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance which will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out 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 always the case and i think that better help offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait on 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy 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 conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then 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 vary by counselor however 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Wine And Crime Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared really 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so