brutally sincere…It Manager Betterhelp… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my final ideas on whether i would suggest 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 counseling platform that connects individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist 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 create an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that much better help provides both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices three truly to me however they state it’s four are available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are perhaps a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 for your counselor to sign up with 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference and then 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe 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 actually 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 among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely accessible and really practical for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your visit so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email suggestions and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely efficient and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks specifically thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering 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 think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing It Manager Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely 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 have to like browse choose the photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so