completely honest…Moth Better Help… 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait on your counselor to sign up with and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as someone attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 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 spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist 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 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 believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item 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 however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Moth Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo 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 just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really develops a line break so