brutally truthful…Better Help Beautiful Anonymous… evaluation of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy process to start so initially you fill out 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 quite prolonged survey they ask you to develop 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 price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay ahead of time which will make the expense cheaper for you total and then based upon 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk to them and you can set up a time to have your very first official conference 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 understand that all 4 alternatives three really to me but they say it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not thinking about 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 then you await your counselor 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 start having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a be familiar with you type of session to determine why are you thinking about therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as someone attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 issues 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 counselor 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 but i have actually paid for all of my sessions beforehand to get that less expensive rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very practical and really available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or call they send you suggestions about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text tips 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the app and the platform is not excellent in fact it kind of sucks specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Beautiful Anonymous
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared really 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 need to like browse select the image then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually creates a line break so