completely sincere…Unitedhealthcare Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would advise much better help and whether i believe it’s the right 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 psychological health experts it’s a quite simple 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 quite lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can likewise alter your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out 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 necessarily the case and i think that much better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 great to understand that all 4 choices three really to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 after that 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 conference during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you type 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 therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference 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 speak about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however 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 but i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really practical and very available for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text tips 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 certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not very good in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Unitedhealthcare Betterhelp
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so