extremely honest…Better Help Counseling &Amp… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or therapy with mental health experts 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 counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged questionnaire they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost cheaper for you overall and after that based on your answers to your questions in the previously pointed out survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance offers both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak to them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls but it is good to understand that all four choices 3 really to me however they state it’s 4 are offered and i know that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a bit more nervous about treatment or not thinking about 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 then you wait for 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 get to know you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody going to treatment what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very accessible and really hassle-free for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a range of different methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail tips and text tips and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few 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 offer digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of sucks specifically considering that much better help 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 indicate i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Counseling &Amp
or talking or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very 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 choose the picture then put it in and then 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 push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it in fact produces a line break so