completely honest…Better Help Board Of Directors… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite easy process to start 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 complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better aid provides both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 await your counselor 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed 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 and that makes it extremely convenient and extremely available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Board Of Directors
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very strangely 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 need to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so