extremely honest…Better Help Manager… evaluation of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also alter 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 less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid 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 speak 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 routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you wait for your counselor to join and they will link 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 throughout your very first session you’re probably 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 preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective 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 anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Manager
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared really oddly 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 choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual 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 in fact produces a line break so