brutally sincere…Better Help/Phil… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that 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 use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference 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 but it is great to understand that all four alternatives three really to me however they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait for your therapist 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then 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 counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely practical and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips 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 certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help/Phil
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so