extremely honest…Allowed To Feel Better Help… review of much better aid 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i think it’s the best 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 treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 provides both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk 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 regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 therapist 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists 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 comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really convenient and very accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient 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 any person who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost 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 excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that better help 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Allowed To Feel Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so