brutally honest…Becoming Emploed By Better Help… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite simple process to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried 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 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 on your therapist to sign up with 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist however 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 beforehand 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 most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders 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 but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort 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 utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Becoming Emploed By Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really 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 need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so