brutally truthful…Keli Cahill Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether or not i would advise better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty basic process to start so initially you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you complete what i would call a quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can lower the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the expense cheaper for you overall and then based on your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls however it is great to know that all 4 alternatives 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are possibly a little bit more worried about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet 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 after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a get to know you kind of session to determine why are you interested in therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first meeting and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish 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 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 however i have paid for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service and that makes it extremely available and very practical for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time established they send you both email pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no additional expense to what you currently 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 type of draws particularly thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering 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 think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no alternatives for screen sharing Keli Cahill Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session pictures 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 photo then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just very 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