completely sincere…Better Help Safe… evaluation of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know 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 advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 believe that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference 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 but it is good to understand that all 4 options three actually to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious 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 after that you wait for your therapist to join 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 start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think 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 beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very available and extremely practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions 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 certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks especially thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Safe
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely 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 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 simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so