brutally sincere…Better Help Michael… evaluation of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest better help 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 connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can also change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better help offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually 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 think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely hassle-free and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Michael
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared very 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 then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so