brutally honest…Nisim Cohen Better Help… review of better aid i have actually been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that give you my last thoughts on whether i would advise much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the right service for you for those of you that do not know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for therapy or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to get started so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to create an account and after that you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how typically
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can also pay ahead of time and that will make the expense more affordable for you general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better assistance offers both kinds of mental health experts so just keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability 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 routine call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 actually to me but they say it’s 4 are available and i know that’s certainly great for some people who are perhaps a bit more nervous about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uncomfortable 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 await your therapist to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have simply a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as someone going to treatment what are your therapists choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much 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 however you spent for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 but i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the most significant pros of better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it extremely hassle-free and really available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly efficient and another cool aspect 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 extra cost to what you already spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it type of draws especially considering that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network but i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Nisim Cohen Better Help
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared really strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them individually so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the picture 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 do not send it in fact produces a line break so