brutally truthful…Jor-el Heyfranhey Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest much better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty 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 but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design 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 deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor however 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 more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions 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 effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially considering 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 connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Jor-el Heyfranhey Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose 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 simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so