extremely sincere…Better Help Magellan… evaluation of much better aid i have actually 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 cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly 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 better aid provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three truly to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 after that you wait on your counselor to sign up with 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 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 resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 discuss your issues 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 however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist however 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely practical and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite tough 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that better aid 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Magellan
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images 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 very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so