brutally honest…Roni Frank Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get going so first you fill out an online survey 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 pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce 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 and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four choices three actually to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy 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 after that you wait on your counselor to join 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think 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 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 believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and really practical for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective 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 utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Roni Frank Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures 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 need to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so