extremely truthful…Anthem Better Help… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to start so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire 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 decrease 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 likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 for your therapist 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 meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist but 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of 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 uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently 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 type of sucks especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling 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 believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Anthem Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so