completely sincere…Darcie Kelley Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my last thoughts on whether i would suggest much better help and whether or not i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand and that will make the expense more affordable for you overall and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better aid offers 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 first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three really to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are possibly a 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 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 await your therapist 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first conference 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 address 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 counselor 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 spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely practical and really available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a variety of different methods to meet with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of 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 anyone who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not very good in fact it sort of sucks specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Darcie Kelley Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the picture then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact creates a line break so