completely truthful…Betterhelp Plus… evaluation of much 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 know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and after that offer you my final ideas on whether i would suggest much better aid and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects people who are looking for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a quite basic procedure to begin so initially you complete an online survey it asks you some concerns that will better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a quite prolonged survey they ask you to produce an account and after that you set up your payment choices i’ll discuss this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the price and after that you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you wish to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey however you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the expense cheaper for you total and after that based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed 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 better help provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to speak to 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 telephone call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices three really to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that 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 then you wait on 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 probably going to have simply a get to know you type of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to resolve what are your preferences as someone going to treatment 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 conference and after that with time you’ll get more comfortable with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can talk about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist 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 ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better help is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really hassle-free and really accessible for many people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a variety of various methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s quite hard to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email suggestions and text reminders 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 however uh definitely reliable and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to anyone who utilizes betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you already pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it sort of sucks specifically thinking about that much better assistance in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can utilize to link you to their network i mean i guess they’re offering the network however i think truly what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s pretty cumbersome there are no choices for screen sharing Betterhelp Plus
or messaging or talking throughout 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 have to like browse select the picture then put it in and then the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they have to click into the file to see it it’s simply really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually produces a line break so