brutally honest…Amir Eitan Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop 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 reduce the rate and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help offers both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone 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 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 await your counselor to join 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy 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 wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually 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 greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and really accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Amir Eitan Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared extremely 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so