brutally sincere…Cons Of Better Help… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer 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 do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy process to start so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create 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 reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable 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 utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all 4 options three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think 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 spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional 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 great in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Cons Of Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared very 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need 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 produces a line break so