brutally honest…Better Help Relationship Counseling… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic process to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 await 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 first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend 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 kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Relationship Counseling
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared really 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so