brutally honest…Qut Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better help and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get started so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor 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 preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based on 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 web 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 await your therapist 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid 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 believe one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really available and really convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really 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 Qut Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only 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 sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so