brutally sincere…Todd Essig Forbes Better Help… evaluation of better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend much 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 therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to create an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better aid uses both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability 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 call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them unpleasant 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 await 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you want 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and extremely accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Todd Essig Forbes Better Help
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 person can’t see a preview of the photo 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 really creates a line break so