brutally truthful…Better Help 50M… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist 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 rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 think that much better help provides both types of psychological health professionals so simply 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 main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and extremely hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions 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 effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that better aid 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help 50M
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so