completely honest…Maintenance Plan Betterhelp… review of better assistance i’ve been using the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve used it long enough to know what are the benefits and drawbacks so i’m going to walk you through all of those and then offer you my last thoughts on whether or not i would suggest better help and whether i believe it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that connects individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with mental health professionals it’s a pretty simple procedure to start so first you complete an online questionnaire 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 quite prolonged questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you set up your payment choices i’ll talk about this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can reduce the rate and then you can also alter your choice on how typically
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive but you can likewise pay in advance and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and after that based on your answers to your questions 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 necessarily the case and i believe that better aid provides both kinds of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is great to know that all 4 choices 3 really to me however they say it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s certainly good for some people who are maybe a little bit more nervous about therapy or not thinking about 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 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 counselor to sign up with and they will link 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 just a learn more about you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your counselors choices and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very 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 resolve 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 think this does differ by therapist however 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 more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think among the most significant pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it really available and really practical for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can select a variety of different methods to consult with your counselor so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty challenging to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a couple of hours ahead and a couple of minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh definitely reliable and another cool thing about 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 uses betterhelp completely for free it’s at no additional 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 much better aid 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 however i think actually what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s pretty clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Maintenance Plan Betterhelp
or messaging or talking during 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 need to like browse choose the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just very out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so