extremely sincere…The Read Podcast Betterhelp… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the advantages and disadvantages so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest much better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links people who are trying to find counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance which will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 think that better aid provides both types of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can set up 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 instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to understand that all 4 alternatives three truly to me but they state it’s four are offered and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are possibly a bit more worried 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 then you await your therapist to sign up with 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 begin having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that 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 vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it extremely available and really hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text reminders 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 but uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp completely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws especially considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product 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 an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing The Read Podcast Betterhelp
or messaging or talking throughout a session images 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 picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so