brutally truthful…Teck Support Better Help… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help 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 produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the expense more affordable for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait on your therapist 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment 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 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then 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 counselor in particular i believe this does vary 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 ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and extremely hassle-free for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders 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 however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Teck Support Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually creates a line break so