completely truthful…Shane On Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense cheaper for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting 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 however it is great to know that all four choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 counselor to join 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 conference during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but 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 proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and extremely available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Shane On Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session images are shared really oddly 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 after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so