brutally sincere…Mariah C Ely Better Help… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed 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 think that better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with 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 telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all 4 choices three really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 join 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 begin having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy 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 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 comfy 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 address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and really practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great 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 selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Mariah C Ely Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos 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 have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so