brutally truthful…Therapist Complaints Better Help… review of better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized 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 offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
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 cheaper for you overall 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 use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that much better help provides both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to 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 phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy 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 after that 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 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 kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences 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 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 issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then 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 vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Therapist Complaints Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact produces a line break so