completely honest…Better Help Sutton… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions 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 develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply 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 meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy 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 then you wait for your therapist to join 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 meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially considering 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 link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Sutton
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared extremely 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so