completely truthful…Better Help.Brunswick… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns 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 aid offers both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four choices three really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a 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 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 await your therapist to join 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 throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve 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 think this does differ by counselor but 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 cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently 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 sucks particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help.Brunswick
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very oddly 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so