extremely honest…Lars Winter Better Help… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid uses both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 alternatives three truly to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 therapist 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 throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually 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 think one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely accessible and really convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay 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 especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Lars Winter Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so