extremely honest…Better Help Logo Transparent… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic process to begin so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out 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 necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four choices 3 really to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 on 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 first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand 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 better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and very practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect 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 utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really 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 Logo Transparent
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really 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