brutally honest…Better Help Woman Telehealth… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually 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 thoughts on whether i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help 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 create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 options three really to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 await your therapist to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style 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 much 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 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 paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very convenient and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Woman Telehealth
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so