completely honest…Clinical Director Better Help… review of better aid i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better help and whether i believe 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 treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty easy procedure to begin so first you fill out an online survey it asks you some questions that will better assist match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the rate and then you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly 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 always the case and i believe that better aid offers both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you’re able to speak with them and you can set up a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four choices three actually to me however they say it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a little bit more worried about therapy 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 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 therapist to sign up with 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 begin having your your conference during your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of therapy 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 want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 beforehand to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better assistance is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very accessible and very hassle-free for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty hard to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text suggestions and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it type of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Clinical Director Better Help
or chatting or messaging throughout a session photos are shared very oddly they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately 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 preview of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really 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