brutally truthful…Better Help\’s Terms And Conditions… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple process to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist 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 decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based on 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both kinds of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three really to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely good for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious 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 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 in advance to get that less expensive 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 assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really convenient and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 but uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help\’s Terms And Conditions
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared really oddly 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 select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so