completely sincere…End Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help 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 counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based upon 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both types of mental health experts so just 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 first main 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 but it is good to know that all four options three truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 then you wait for your counselor to sign up with 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences 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 very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly 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 anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing End Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can only 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 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 very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so