completely sincere…Better Help The Muse… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four choices three really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 counselor to join 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 meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 therapist 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips 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 aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link 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 pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help The Muse
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so