completely truthful…Betterhelp Logo Square… evaluation of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it enough time to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my final ideas on whether i would recommend much better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or therapy with psychological health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to start so first you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment preferences i’ll speak about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can decrease the price and then you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay beforehand which will make the expense more affordable for you overall and then based upon your answers to your questions in the previously mentioned survey 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 think that much better assistance uses both kinds of psychological health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk to them and you can establish a time to have your very first main conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely helpful for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more nervous 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 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 during your very first session you’re most likely going to have just a learn more about you type of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as someone participating in treatment what are your therapists 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 comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your problems and whatever it is that you want to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or however 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 actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service and that makes it really hassle-free and very accessible for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can choose a range of different ways to meet your therapist so you can do text message video calls or call they send you suggestions about your consultation so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail reminders and text pointers and they send them to you a couple of days ahead and likewise a couple of hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh definitely effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to any person who utilizes betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of draws especially thinking about that better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering 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 think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Betterhelp Logo Square
or messaging or talking throughout a session pictures are shared extremely 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 have to like browse choose the picture then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really outdated small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it really creates a line break so