brutally honest…Danny Gonzalez Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive 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 but that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with 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 regular call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three really to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 await your counselor to join 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 most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable 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 help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Danny Gonzalez Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so