brutally honest…Betterhelp 2018… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can likewise change your preference on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on 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 always the case and i believe that much better help provides both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is great to understand that all four alternatives three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s certainly great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uneasy 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 then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish 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 therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions 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 but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws 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 use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp 2018
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really 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 have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have 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 in fact creates a line break so