extremely honest…Farid Chaouki Better Help… review of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it long enough to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether i would recommend much better aid and whether or not i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health professionals it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially you complete an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much 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 after that you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and after that you can likewise alter your preference on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the expense less expensive 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 therapist interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i think that better help provides both kinds of mental health professionals so just 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 first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is excellent to know that all four options 3 truly to me however they say it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s definitely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more worried about treatment or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait on your therapist 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 very first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as someone attending therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their design 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 much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my therapist in particular i believe this does vary by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent 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 most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to consult with your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your appointment so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text suggestions and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly reliable and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no options for screen sharing Farid Chaouki Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session pictures are shared extremely 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 image then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply very outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact creates a line break so