brutally sincere…Michael Phelps Better Help Meme… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want 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 expense 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 however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid provides both kinds of mental 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 establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four options 3 truly to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and after that 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however 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 proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Michael Phelps Better Help Meme
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared extremely oddly 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 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 outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so