completely honest…What It\’s Like To Be A Better Help Therapist… review of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to know what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health experts it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better help offers both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up 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 instant message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all four alternatives 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s certainly good for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious 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 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 sign up with and they will connect 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems 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 nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very hassle-free and extremely accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks especially thinking about that much better help 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 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 alternatives for screen sharing What It\’s Like To Be A Better Help Therapist
or messaging or talking during a session pictures are shared very 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 then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so