extremely honest…Josh Wolff Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to start so first you fill out an online survey 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 quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 then you wait on your counselor to sign up with and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want 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 therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and very hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Josh Wolff Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 do not send it really produces a line break so