completely honest…Better Help New Commercial… evaluation of much better aid i’ve 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 walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better aid uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 on your counselor to sign up with and they will connect 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely practical and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however 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 New Commercial
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so