brutally truthful…Thearapist 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 stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would suggest better help and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going 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 submit what i would call a quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of psychological health experts so just 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 first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web 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 link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then 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 figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and really convenient for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it type of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Thearapist On Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so