extremely truthful…Better Help Parents… review of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise 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 therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you fill out 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 prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid 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 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 routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and really available for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Parents
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely oddly 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have 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 do not send it really creates a line break so