extremely honest…Better Help Tiffany Dubya… review of much better help i’ve 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 walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned 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 always the case and i think that much better help uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up 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 however it is great to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that 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 wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls 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 suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently 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 sucks particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Tiffany Dubya
or talking or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so