extremely honest…Better Help/Mfm… evaluation of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple process to begin so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions 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 however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious 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 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 therapist to sign up with 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 first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however 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 ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of 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 offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help/Mfm
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared really 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need 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 in fact develops a line break so