brutally honest…Geha Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better help and whether i think 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 mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid provides both types of psychological health experts so simply 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 first main meeting 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 good to understand that all four alternatives 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in 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 after that you wait for your therapist 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 want 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 therapist 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 however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but 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 offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort 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 connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Geha Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared extremely strangely 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 select the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply 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