extremely honest…Michael Pheops Better Help… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get started so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 choices three actually to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since 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 join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Michael Pheops Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images 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 image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so