brutally truthful…Owner Of Better Help… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 always the case and i think that much better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to understand that all four alternatives three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 wait for your counselor to join 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really practical and really available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different 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 pretty challenging 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 likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better help 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Owner Of Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so