completely truthful…Better Help Michael Phel S… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used 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 ideas on whether i would advise much better help and whether i believe it’s the best 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 mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting 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 but it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait for your therapist 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 first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 wish to resolve and after that 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 believe this does vary by counselor however 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and extremely available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Michael Phel S
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact develops a line break so