extremely sincere…Rich Lorenzo Better Help… review of much better aid i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i’ve used it long enough to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that provide you my last ideas on whether or not i would suggest better aid and whether or not i think it’s the best 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 psychological health experts it’s a quite simple process to get going so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a therapist or a counselor so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also change your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can also pay beforehand which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based on your answers to your questions in the formerly pointed out questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that better assistance provides both kinds of psychological health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk 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 phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all four choices 3 actually to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s certainly helpful for some individuals who are maybe a bit more worried about therapy 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 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 therapist 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 during your very first session you’re probably going to have simply a learn more about you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody going to 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 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 talk about your issues and whatever it is that you wish to address and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor 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 but i have 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 think one of the most significant pros of better aid is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it very practical and extremely available for most people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of different methods to meet your counselor 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 suggestions and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but 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 any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally 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 viewpoint the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of draws especially considering that better aid 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 suggest i guess they’re offering the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Rich Lorenzo Better Help
or chatting or messaging during a session images are shared very strangely 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 then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image 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 in fact develops a line break so