brutally sincere…Better Help New York… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so initially 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 submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based upon 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 believe that better help uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply 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 very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four options three truly to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 after that you wait for your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 want 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 counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by therapist 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 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 one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense 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 great in fact it kind of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product 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 selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help New York
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately 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 person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so