completely truthful…Subscribe To Better Help… review of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would suggest better help and whether i think 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 mental health experts it’s a quite simple process to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out 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 think that much better aid uses both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant 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 then you wait on your counselor to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment 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 much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and after that 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 therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very convenient and really available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up 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 definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who uses betterhelp completely 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 opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially 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 utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Subscribe To Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout 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 choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so