completely truthful…Betterhelp/Mfm… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal 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 counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and then you can likewise change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance uses both types of mental health professionals 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 official conference 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 4 choices three actually to me but they say it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your counselor to join 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 throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have spent 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 believe among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and extremely practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp/Mfm
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 after that the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really produces a line break so