brutally honest…Better Help Project… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 know that all four alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 for your counselor to sign up with 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 conference throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply 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 choices as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Project
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so