brutally truthful…Your Mom\’s House Talk Better Help… evaluation of much better help i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic process to get going so initially you complete an online questionnaire 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 pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 much better assistance offers both kinds of mental health specialists so simply 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 first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four options 3 really to me however they say it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly good for some individuals who are maybe a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the 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 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 begin having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak 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 counselor 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 spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers 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 but uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of sucks particularly considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Your Mom\’s House Talk Better Help
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely oddly 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 choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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 actually creates a line break so