extremely honest…Unitedhealthcare Better Help… evaluation of much better help i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite basic process to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire 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 aid uses both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four alternatives 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 wait on your counselor to join and they will connect 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however 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 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 proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely convenient and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws particularly considering that better aid 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 selling the network but i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Unitedhealthcare Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session images 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just 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