brutally truthful…Dba Betterhelp… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to start so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to create an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can likewise change your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously discussed 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 uses both types of mental health specialists so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official conference 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 however it is great to know that all four options three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some individuals who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor however 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really practical and really accessible for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of 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 provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend 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 much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network however i think actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Dba Betterhelp
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared extremely 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 have to like browse select the picture 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 simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so