extremely honest…Michael Palladino Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty easy process to begin so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 for 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think 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 paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and extremely convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text pointers 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 aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Michael Palladino Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so