extremely honest…Request Receipt Better Help… evaluation of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to begin so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little 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 pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire 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 types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up 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 understand that all four options three truly to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 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 begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very convenient and really accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders 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 but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Request Receipt Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session photos are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so