extremely honest…Better Help Brentwood… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic process to begin so first you complete 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 lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 assistance 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 to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 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 however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders 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 effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free 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 app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that much better aid 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 think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Brentwood
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared very 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 image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so