from anxiety and injury.Betterhelp Cancel Delete. and then likewise from the perspective that i have actually used better help as a customer so today i’m going to speak about what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a much better health therapist i likewise want to reveal you a little bit of a technique on the better help site that permits you to take a 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 bit not quite surprise but type of concealed on the site and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i likewise want to address 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 wish to make it clear that betterhelp just employs licensed professionals and they match individuals with a certified expert in your own state since 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 clearly 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 inform you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to become certified you need 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 marital relationship and household treatment or professional therapy and then once you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being supervised by a specialist who holds the license you’re looking for and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you talk about how you are providing treatment to your customers so usually accomplishing this numerous medical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around three or 4 years of experience to get the medical hours to even then sit for the composed examination and then you sit for the written test and after that if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you want to work for better help you need a minimum of three years of experience after you’ve been certified so you are absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid variety of medical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they have actually been accredited so there’s a popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is simply not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to discuss that briefly is she says one they don’t prescribe medication and 2 they don’t handle court orders so let me address those two things because 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 physicians could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Cancel Delete
or a certified expert nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can recommend medication the vast majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live really very few psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists concentrate on prescribing the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and then the second criticism that they do not handle court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually tried to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would occur is i would get a phone call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week since they had to go to court next week and they were attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually received probably five or 6 months back now i comprehend that this occurs i actually do however that’s not actually treatment that’s in fact doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for a lot of court-ordered treatment there are community companies that can offer that kind of treatment in a more reliable way so i simply wished to deal with those two criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so before i show you this little trick on the website for better help in regards to being able to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to say 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is extremely crucial and the style of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has a very costly rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who have actually come to me after seeing somebody in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my office and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything but discuss herself well that’s not suitable so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a community agency or on better help switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so absolutely the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you need to discover someone who’s a good suitable for you and actually among the
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advantages i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly change therapists so there’s some accountability in that due to the fact that obviously if better help has a therapist and people are always switching 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 hard to find reviews unless you get an individual recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do think that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can write an evaluation you can offer feedback and you can change therapists if you need to so prior to i show you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and select a therapist who resonates for you in your location but i do have a link listed below this video that supplies 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 take on psychotherapy clients just as an fyi since i get that question a lot but i affiliated with them because individuals all over the nation and really all over the world contact me regularly to say that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 various countries 40 various languages i remain in alignment with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will provide 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 pick baltimore maryland i do not live there
i don’t understand any therapists there however i’m just going to try it and you will get an entire host of therapists and you can have a look and once again i do not understand these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just revealing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your area prior to signing up and then if you really liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on stress anxiety lgbt relationship issues trauma and abuse Betterhelp Cancel Delete