extremely honest…Aetna And Better Help… review of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it long enough 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 advise better assistance and whether or not i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic procedure to begin so first you submit an online survey 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 quite lengthy 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 however there are scholarships that can decrease the rate and after that you can also alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you general and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey 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 necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both kinds of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is excellent to know that all 4 choices three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some people who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them unpleasant 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 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 throughout 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 thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does vary by counselor however 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 cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service which makes it really available and very practical for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different ways to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text reminders 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 certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it sort of sucks especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re offering the network however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Aetna And Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session photos are shared very 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 need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the picture they have 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 really produces a line break so