completely honest…Nickname On Better Help… review of much better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my final ideas on whether i would recommend better aid and whether i believe it’s the right service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health specialists it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a little bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and then you can likewise alter your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost cheaper for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned questionnaire 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 necessarily the case and i believe that much better help uses both kinds of mental health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to them and you can set up a time to have your first official meeting 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 excellent to know that all 4 options three actually to me however they state it’s 4 are readily available and i know that’s absolutely good for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious 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 web 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 on your counselor to join 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 start having your your conference during your first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that less expensive rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really practical and extremely available for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various methods to meet your counselor so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you pointers about your appointment so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail tips 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 definitely effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no additional expense 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 particularly considering that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can utilize to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re selling the network but i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Nickname On Better Help
or messaging or chatting throughout a session images are shared very strangely 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 select the image then put it in and then the individual can’t see a preview of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it really produces a line break so