completely honest…Better Help David Dobrik… review of better help i have actually 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 cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and then 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability 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 regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 options 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 after that you wait on your counselor to join and they will connect 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless 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 however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very accessible and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally for 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 app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product 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 however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help David Dobrik
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need 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 creates a line break so