extremely honest…Mark Hirschhorn Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to start so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise change your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so simply 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 very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is great to understand that all four options three truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because 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 counselor to sign up with and they will connect 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 meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment 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 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely accessible and very hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp completely 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 viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better help 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 mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe really 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 Mark Hirschhorn Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so