brutally sincere…Shannon Hunter Better Help… review of much better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise 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 looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get started so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and then you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost more affordable for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 believe that better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very 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 however it is excellent to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 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 then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to figure out 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 choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however 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 but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely available and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Shannon Hunter Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have 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 actually develops a line break so