brutally honest…Better Help Reditt… review 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 enough time 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 or not i would suggest better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are trying to find therapy or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay in advance which will make the expense less expensive for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly pointed out survey 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 always the case and i believe that much better aid offers both types of mental health experts so just 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 conference so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 options three actually to me but they say it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s certainly great for some people who are possibly a bit more worried about therapy or not interested in doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable 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 after that you wait for your counselor to sign up with and they will link 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 conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the 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 talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to address and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or however you set it up with your therapist 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 however i have paid 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 believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it really convenient and really accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different ways to meet with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both e-mail suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anybody who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Reditt
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared extremely strangely 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 image then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need 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 don’t send it in fact develops a line break so