brutally honest…Phillip Defranco And Better Help… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to speak 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you await your counselor 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really convenient and really accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Phillip Defranco And Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so