brutally sincere…Mumkey Jones Betterhelp… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find therapy or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite easy process to get going so initially you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help uses both types of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your 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 know that all 4 options 3 truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 for your therapist 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 start having your your meeting during your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however 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 less expensive rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really convenient and really accessible for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your visit so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail pointers and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however 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 readily available to any person who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Mumkey Jones Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 image then put it in and then the person 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 do not send it really creates a line break so