from anxiety and trauma.Bart Baker Betterhelp. and after that likewise from the point of view that i’ve utilized better help as a client so today i’m going to talk about what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a better health therapist i also wish to reveal you a little bit of a technique on the better help website that allows you to look at who the therapists are in your location read their profiles and pick one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite hidden however kind of concealed on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also wish to resolve some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get started so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp only employs certified professionals and they match individuals with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be accredited in the state where you live so what does it take to be accredited now obviously that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it takes to be
certified in connecticut where i live and after that tell you what else is needed to be a better health therapist so to become certified you require an academic degree in one of a handful of locations so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and family therapy or professional therapy and then when you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being monitored by an expert who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this person in which you discuss how you are supplying treatment to your customers so typically achieving this lots of medical hours and this much guidance probably averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the scientific hours to even then sit for the written exam and then you sit for the written examination and then if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s required to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you wish to work for better help you require a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually been accredited so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a strong variety of medical hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they’ve been licensed so there’s a popular video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is merely not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i want to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not recommend medication and 2 they don’t deal with court orders so let me deal with those two things since in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you also take place to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical doctors could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Bart Baker Betterhelp
or a certified expert nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only two types of people who can recommend medication the huge majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live extremely very couple of psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and after that the second criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i truly tried to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would occur is i would get a telephone call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week because they needed to go to court next week and they were attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually gotten probably 5 or six months earlier now i understand that this happens i really do but that’s not actually treatment that’s really doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and probably for many court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can provide that kind of treatment in a more efficient way so i simply wanted to resolve those two criticisms since i don’t feel they’re valid so prior to i share with you this little technique on the site for better help in regards to having the ability to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i ‘d like to state two things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is extremely crucial and the design of a therapist makes a big difference how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to somebody who has a very costly rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who have actually concerned me after seeing someone in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they come into my office and they ‘d say my previous therapist not did anything however discuss herself well that’s not proper so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community firm or on better help switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something egregious you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and in fact among the
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benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly change therapists so there’s some responsibility because because undoubtedly if better help has a therapist and people are constantly changing far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you inform and then it’s extremely tough to find reviews unless you get an individual suggestion to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of a benefit of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can write a review you can supply feedback and you can switch therapists if you require to so prior to i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and pick a therapist who resonates for you in your location but i do have a link below this video that offers you with 10 off your first month i am an affiliate of better help i am not a therapist on the platform and i no longer handle psychotherapy customers just as an fyi because i get that question a lot however i affiliated with them because people all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me routinely to state that they do not have access to mental health services so better help supply service in 140 various countries 40 various languages i’m in alignment with their objective so there is a link below this video that will offer you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you really don’t get the choice up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are readily available you need to scroll all the way to the bottom and you’ll see here find a therapist so you can put in any city in the united states i’m going to choose baltimore maryland i do not live there
i do not know any therapists there however i’m just going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and again i don’t know these people i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just showing you how you can evaluate to see who the therapists are that are available in your location prior to registering and then if you truly liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns trauma and abuse Bart Baker Betterhelp