extremely honest…Quit Better Help Remaining… evaluation of better aid i’ve 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 pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help uses both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting 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 great to know that all four choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous 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 web 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 on 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy 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 deal with and after that 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 think this does vary by counselor however 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite 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 couple of days ahead and likewise a few 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item 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 believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Quit Better Help Remaining
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared very oddly 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have 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 actually develops a line break so