brutally honest…The Read Podcast 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 used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then give you my final ideas on whether or not i would suggest better assistance 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 therapy or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite easy procedure to get going so first you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you complete what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the cost and after that you can also alter your preference on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can also pay in advance and that will make the expense less expensive for you general and then based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed survey 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 always the case and i believe that much better help offers both types of psychological health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or instant message i constantly do video calls however it is great to know that all four alternatives three actually to me but they state it’s 4 are offered and i understand that’s definitely good for some individuals who are possibly a 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 then you await your therapist to sign up with 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 meeting throughout your very first session you’re most likely going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you thinking about therapy what things do you wish to resolve what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then 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 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 therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does vary by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down but i have spent for all of my sessions beforehand to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the biggest pros of better assistance is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very available and really practical for most people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a range of different methods to meet your therapist so you can do text video calls or phone calls they send you tips about your appointment so it’s quite challenging to forget when you have a time established they send you both email reminders and text reminders and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are readily available to anybody who uses betterhelp completely free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically considering that better aid in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to link you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network however i believe really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing The Read Podcast Better Help
or talking or messaging throughout a session pictures are shared really 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 then the individual can’t see a preview of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so