extremely honest…Cancelling Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts 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 counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use 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 experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four options three really to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 simply a learn more about you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free 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 platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Cancelling Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really strangely 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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 do not send it really creates a line break so