brutally truthful…Media Relations Campaign To Promote Betterhelp… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic process to get going so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise alter 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 which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned 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 think that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 choices three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about 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 web 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 sign up with and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that 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 want to deal with 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 counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely 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 particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually 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 Media Relations Campaign To Promote Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo 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 actually creates a line break so