extremely truthful…Jor-el Francheska Better Help… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 always the case and i believe that better help offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 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 start having your your conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Jor-el Francheska Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 need to like browse choose the picture 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 extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so