FAQs

Counselors with BestAide range from people with doctorates in clinical counseling, a doctorate in medicine, seminary-trained biblical counselors, certified counselors, and ordained ministers with a reformed theological persuasion. While their experiences may differ, they have all agreed to be biblically based in their approach to counseling.

After you join, we will connect you to an accessible counselor who will help diagnose the root of your issues and collaboratively set counseling goals with you and draw up a treatment plan. Different counselors have different ways of approaching goal setting and treatment planning so it’s important to be matched to the right counselor who will help you achieve your counseling goals.

BestAide would be the best help for you if you are seeking to change your unwanted behaviors, undesirable emotions, and unfruitful relationships in a God-glorifying manner. If your joy has been sapped by sin and suffering we might be able to help you regain that through clinically informed biblical counseling. For example, if you feel depressed, anxious, stressed out, disconnected from vital relationships, addicted to substances or behaviors and practices such as video games, gambling, pornography, eating too much or too little, having obsessive thoughts, anger problems, lack of confidence, gender identity issues, etc, these are just some of the types of problems that we can help you with. BestAide isn’t for you if any of the following are present:

• You think of harming yourself or others
• You are a minor or you are under the care of a legal guardian
• You are in an emergency situation needing immediate attention
• You have been determined to have a serious dysfunctional behavior, or in the event that you have been ordered by a court or other authority to a mental facility for continual supervision
• You were required to go through treatment or directed either by a court request or by some other authority figure
• You don’t have a gadget or device that can interface with the Internet or you don’t have solid Internet access.

While other Biblical Counseling practices in the area charge between $175 – $225 per week, Bestaide charges the low and affordable cost of $100 for individual sessions and $150 for couple sessions. It is by a monthly subscription charged at regular intervals every 4 weeks. You can cancel your regular interval billing arrangement at any time for any reason. Couples can also get a 30% discount if they are members or regular attendees of a partner church. This discount is not valid if you already have an existing discount. Upon request, we issue super bills upon receipt of payment for insurance reimbursement to the client.

Generally within 24 hours or less except every counselor is booked and you are put on a waiting list.

Your counselor can engage with you through four different mediums:

• Exchanging text messages with your counselor
• Talking via telephone with your counselor
• Hipaa-compliant video conferencing with your counselor

You can utilize various ways on various occasions as you wish, in view of your requirements, accessibility, and comfort.

The experts who work through BestAide are seminary-trained and certified biblical counselors. However, while they may have comparative advantages, it’s not fit to fully replace conventional up close and personal treatment for each situation. Please note that your provider won’t be able to make any official diagnoses, satisfy any court arrangement, or recommend drug prescriptions.

The experts who work through BestAide range from master’s degrees and PhD holders in clinical counseling, seminary graduates in Biblical counseling, and certified biblical counselors. However, while they may have comparative advantages, it’s not fit to fully replace conventional up close and personal treatment for each situation. Please note that your provider won’t be able to make any official diagnoses, satisfy any court arrangements, or recommend drug prescriptions.

We believe that for most mental and relational problems faced by Christians, the local church is the place for counsel and care. The reason is because Christians have the Word of God, the Spirit of God, and the people of God working in unity. Everyone who works for BestAide is a Christian with a graduate education in counseling. In this environment of counseling the Christian can get the “BEST” help for most of the mental and relational problems that Christians face. BestAide is the best help because our approach goes beyond behavioral modification and emotional regulation and reaches deep into the heart – which is the root of many problems.
Due to inadequate counseling staffing, many churches are not able to provide biblical counseling in their church. Because of this lack, they tend to refer Christians to secular counselors who are more familiar with secular theories of change. The results are often limited to behavioral and emotional change only. BestAide is the best help for Christians whose problems are sin and suffering-related. This is because BestAide aims at making disciples through counseling and equipping counselees to help others. (Please note that not all relational problems are caused by sin and not all secular theories in counseling and psychotherapy are unbiblical.)
BestAide’s approach is one that helps people go to the true Biblical root of most behavioral, emotional, and relational problems and applies clinically sound psychological insight and appropriate biblical truth to bring about heart transformation. After the heart or root is changed, the fruits – which were the undesired behaviors and emotions – will also follow suit and your goals will be met.