brutally sincere…Wall Street Journal Better Help… evaluation of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference 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 excellent to understand that all 4 options three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 then you wait for 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really accessible and extremely convenient for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text suggestions 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 but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of draws particularly 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 use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Wall Street Journal Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared very 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 select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so