extremely sincere…Neil Leibowitz Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk with them and you can set up 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 immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four options three truly to me however they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 wait for your therapist 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style 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 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 address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however 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 beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very convenient and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Neil Leibowitz Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session images are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually 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 after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 do not send it in fact produces a line break so