completely truthful…Joe Budden Better Help… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially 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 complete what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all four choices 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your therapist to sign up with 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 probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the 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 however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and extremely practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty challenging 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 also a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling 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 truly 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 Joe Budden Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared very oddly 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so