brutally sincere…Chantal Naegeli Better Help… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether i would suggest much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple process to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices three truly to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 await your counselor 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment 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 conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better help 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 selling the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Chantal Naegeli Better Help
or messaging or talking during 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so