extremely honest…Criticism Of Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used 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 offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 for your counselor to join and they will link 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 most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation 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 couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that much better aid 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 suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Criticism 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 individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so