completely truthful…Lynn Hamilton Better Help… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to get going so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly 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 better help provides both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak with 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three really to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 await your counselor to join 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 throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text reminders 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 reliable 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 any person who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that much better help 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 selling the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Lynn Hamilton Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared very strangely 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 choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so