brutally honest…This Video Is Sponsored By Betterhelp… 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 enough time to know what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think 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 therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a quite basic procedure to get started so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to create an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that better aid offers both kinds of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices 3 actually to me however they say it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that you wait on your therapist to join and they will link 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 very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable 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 wish to resolve 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 counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very hassle-free and extremely accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free 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 sucks particularly thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i believe truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing This Video Is Sponsored By Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared extremely oddly 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 choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo 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 don’t send it actually creates a line break so