brutally sincere…Better Help User Terms… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether i would suggest better aid 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 links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 believe that much better help uses both kinds of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with 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 always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in 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 web 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 on 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 very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with 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 believe this does differ by therapist 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty tough 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 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 available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks particularly thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help User Terms
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately 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 photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so