extremely sincere…Change Pin Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then provide you my final thoughts on whether or not i would recommend better aid and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a quite easy process to start so first you submit an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and after that you can also change your preference on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you total 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 counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i believe that much better aid uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first main meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to understand that all 4 choices three truly to me but they state it’s four are available and i know that’s definitely great for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call because 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 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 begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences 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 comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to attend to and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance 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 better assistance is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really convenient and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your consultation so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely efficient and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it type of sucks especially 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 utilize to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network however i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Change Pin Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during 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 have to like browse choose the image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image 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 really creates a line break so