extremely honest…Betterhelp And Eating Disorders… 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 know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether or not i would recommend much better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty basic process to get started so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire 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 believe that better help provides both types of psychological health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s definitely good for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about treatment 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 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 wait on your counselor to join 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 start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist 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 in advance to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely available and extremely hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text reminders 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 however uh certainly reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great 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 link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i believe truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp And Eating Disorders
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared really oddly 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 select the photo then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so