extremely sincere…Better Help Share… evaluation of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the best service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are trying to find counseling or therapy with psychological health specialists it’s a quite easy procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can also pay in advance and that will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously discussed 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 help uses both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to consult with them and you can set up 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 instant message i constantly do video calls but it is good to know that all 4 choices three truly to me but they say it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly great for some individuals who are maybe a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call since 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 then you wait for 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 start having your your meeting during your first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can talk about your issues and whatever it is that you want to attend to and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by therapist but 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 in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the greatest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it very accessible and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of different methods to meet with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or phone calls 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 e-mail pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a few 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 kind of sessions that are available to anybody who uses betterhelp totally totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you already spend 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 especially considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Share
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply really outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually develops a line break so