completely sincere…Michael Phelps Owner Of Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then 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 also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to 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 regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 wait on your therapist to sign up with 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 during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and very practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Michael Phelps Owner Of Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so