brutally sincere…Advertise On Betterhelp… evaluation of much better help i’ve 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 cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to begin so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey 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 much better assistance uses both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives 3 truly to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy 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 internet 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 therapist to join 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 conference throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody attending treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 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 therapist in particular i think 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 actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no options for screen sharing Advertise On Betterhelp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very 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 have 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 simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so