completely sincere…What Its Like Working For Better Help… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
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 expense more affordable for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help offers both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your conference during your 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 treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and very convenient for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing What Its Like Working For Better Help
or messaging or chatting during a session pictures are shared extremely oddly 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really creates a line break so