extremely honest…Heyfranhey Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 always the case and i believe that much better aid offers both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three really to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a little 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 then you wait for your counselor to join and they will connect 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional 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 great in fact it kind of draws especially considering that 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Heyfranhey Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really strangely 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 select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so