brutally honest…Better Help Podcast… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned 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 aid provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up 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 immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 options three really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 on your counselor to join and they will connect 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Podcast
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so