extremely sincere…Resign From Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best 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 psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting 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 however it is great to know that all 4 options three really to me but they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait on your counselor to sign up with and they will connect 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 during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply 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 participating in treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then 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 resolve and then 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 counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very convenient and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of different ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of 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 available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Resign From Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 select the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image 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 don’t send it really produces a line break so