brutally honest…Better Help Everly Vanover… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait for 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that 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 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text 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 reminders and text pointers 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 however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Everly Vanover
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so