completely honest…Randi Charles Better Help… review of better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better help 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 therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop 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 lower the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey 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 always the case and i think that much better assistance provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in 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 start having your your conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to 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 counselor in particular i believe 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 paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and really convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s quite hard 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 couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that better aid 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 mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Randi Charles Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so