extremely truthful…Better Help Memes… review of much better aid i have actually 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 walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help offers both kinds of mental 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 establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four options three really to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy 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 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 problems and whatever it is that you want 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 counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very practical and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips 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 however uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Memes
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so