brutally honest…Betterhelp Licensed… evaluation of much better help i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better help and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for counseling or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty simple process to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns 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 however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better help provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak with them and you can establish a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls but it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are maybe a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 counselor to join 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 conference during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably 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 deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with 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 therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really accessible and really hassle-free for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s pretty difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Licensed
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a preview of the picture 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