extremely sincere…The 6 Habits Mentally Fit People Practice Betterhelp… review of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to start so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better aid provides both types of psychological health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are maybe a little 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 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 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on 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 available and really convenient for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few 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 use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense 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 excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i believe 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 The 6 Habits Mentally Fit People Practice Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very 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 need to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so