brutally honest…Better Help 0 80 Faster Than Projected Since 2016… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand 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 get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based on 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main 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 however it is excellent to know that all four choices 3 truly to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps 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 web 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 conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy 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 conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense 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 very good in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance 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 but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help 0 80 Faster Than Projected Since 2016
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so