extremely sincere…Joanna Di Tullio New York Better Help… evaluation of much better help i have actually 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 walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help provides both types of psychological health specialists 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 first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 on 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Joanna Di Tullio New York Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared very 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 choose the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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