completely honest…Betterhelps… review of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe 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 then offer you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you general and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better aid uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call because 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 after that you await your therapist 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address 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 therapist in particular i believe this does differ 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely convenient and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail suggestions and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp totally totally 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 opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelps
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can just 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the picture they need 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 really produces a line break so