extremely truthful…Ui Inspiration Betterhelp Progress… 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 enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire 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 prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three really to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 for your counselor 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on 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 counseling service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Ui Inspiration Betterhelp Progress
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very 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 select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need 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 don’t send it actually develops a line break so