brutally truthful…Better Help Commercial Michael Phelps… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help provides both types of psychological health specialists 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 main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 options three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 wait for your therapist to join 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences 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 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 paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist 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 but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering 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 actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Commercial Michael Phelps
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really 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 picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so