brutally sincere…Better Help Progress… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic process to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 choices three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait on your therapist 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 conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless 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 actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really available and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers 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 aspect 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 totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Progress
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really 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 select the picture 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 just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so