completely honest…Better Help Informed Consent… review of much better assistance i’ve been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i think i have actually used it enough time to know what are the cons and pros so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then offer you my last ideas on whether i would advise much better aid and whether i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t know betterhelp is an online therapy platform that links individuals who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health specialists it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so first you submit an online survey it asks you some concerns that will much better help match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty lengthy survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and then you can also alter your choice on how frequently
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most costly however you can also pay beforehand and that will make the cost cheaper for you general and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the formerly discussed questionnaire they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i believe that much better assistance provides both types of psychological health experts so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your first main 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 understand that all four alternatives 3 truly to me but they state it’s 4 are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some individuals who are perhaps a bit more anxious about treatment 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 wait for your counselor 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 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 therapy what things do you want to address what are your preferences as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the very first meeting 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 want to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i believe this does differ by counselor 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 ahead of time to get that less expensive 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 counseling service which makes it extremely accessible and extremely convenient for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can pick a range of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your appointment so it’s quite tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text suggestions 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 however uh definitely efficient and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they offer digital group sessions and webinar kind of sessions that are offered to any person who uses betterhelp entirely totally free it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not excellent in fact it kind of draws specifically considering that much better help 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 imply i guess they’re selling the network however i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no options for screen sharing Better Help Informed Consent
or chatting or messaging throughout a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them individually 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 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 outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it in fact develops a line break so