completely truthful…Betterhelp Parents… review of much better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time 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 final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost more affordable for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously mentioned survey 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better aid offers both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to consult with them and you can establish a time to have your first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 choices three really to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since 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 then you await your therapist 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 start having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody going to therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to resolve 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 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 however i have actually paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really accessible and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Betterhelp Parents
or messaging or chatting throughout a session photos are shared extremely 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so