completely honest…Better Help Public… evaluation of better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite simple process 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 counselor 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 discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 aid uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting 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 however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly 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 web 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your very first session you’re most likely 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 want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost 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 very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Public
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so