brutally truthful…Shrink Better Help… review of better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid 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 people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite basic process to get started so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish 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 more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better help provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with 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 regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s definitely great for some individuals who are possibly 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 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 sign up with 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and really hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various ways to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty hard 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 likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws specifically considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Shrink Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so