extremely truthful…Betterhelp Magellan Eap… review of much better assistance i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease 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 expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all four options three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor 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 actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really practical and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge 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 very good in fact it type of draws specifically considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling 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 believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Magellan Eap
or messaging or chatting during a session images are shared really 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 individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so