completely honest…Better Help Video Therapy… review of better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would advise better help and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a pretty easy process to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can likewise pay beforehand and that will make the cost more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better help uses both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak 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 regular call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four alternatives three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about treatment 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 for 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 first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you type of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference 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 speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however 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 in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really accessible and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite hard 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 few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely 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 readily available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it kind of sucks especially considering that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item 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 however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Better Help Video Therapy
or talking or messaging during a session photos are shared really 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 photo then put it in and then the person can’t see a preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really develops a line break so