completely honest…Jodie Miller Better Help… evaluation of better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually utilized it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are searching for therapy or treatment with psychological health specialists it’s a quite simple procedure to get started so initially 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 complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can likewise alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time which will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of mental health specialists 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 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 however it is great to understand that all 4 options 3 actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i understand that’s definitely helpful for some people who are possibly a bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call due to the fact that 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 await 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 very first session you’re probably going to have just a learn more about you type of session to determine why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as someone participating in therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the very first meeting and then 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 issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by therapist but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that more affordable rate so let’s proceed to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very convenient for most people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a variety of various methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email reminders and text pointers 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 but uh definitely reliable 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 uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no extra cost to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the app and the platform is not great in fact it type of draws especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe actually what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Jodie Miller Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s just extremely outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so