from anxiety and injury.Betterhelp Compile Inc. and then also from the viewpoint that i’ve used better help as a customer so today i’m going to discuss what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a much better health therapist i also wish to reveal you a little bit of a trick on the better help website that allows you to look at who the therapists are in your area read their profiles and choose one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite covert but sort of hidden on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also wish to address some criticisms that i have actually heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get started so i very first wish to make it clear that betterhelp just hires licensed experts and they match people with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this function 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 tell you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to become licensed you require an academic degree in among a handful of areas so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and household therapy or professional counseling and then as soon as you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised by an expert who holds the license you’re looking for and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this person in which you go over how you are supplying therapy to your clients so usually attaining this numerous medical hours and this much supervision probably averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the composed test and after that you sit for the written test and after that if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s needed to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you wish to work for better help you require a minimum of three years of experience after you’ve been certified so you are definitely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid number of scientific hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they’ve been accredited so there’s a very popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is just not real and the factor she calls them late therapists i want to speak about that briefly is she says one they do not recommend medication and 2 they don’t deal with court orders so let me deal with those 2 things since in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise occur to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can prescribe medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Compile Inc
or a licensed expert nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of people who can prescribe medication the vast bulk of psychotherapists do not recommend medication because they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very extremely few psychiatrists likewise do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and after that the second criticism that they do not deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i truly attempted to prevent dealing with court orders and i will share with you why most of the time what would happen is i would get a call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week due to the fact that they had to go to court next week and they were attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually received most likely five or 6 months earlier now i understand that this takes place i truly do however that’s not in fact therapy that’s actually doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for most court-ordered treatment there are community companies that can supply that type of treatment in a more efficient manner so i simply wished to attend to those two criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so prior to i show you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to being able to find somebody in your own area that you resonate with i want to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is extremely essential and the design of a therapist makes a huge distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has an extremely expensive rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who have actually come to me after seeing someone in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they come into my office and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything but talk about herself well that’s not appropriate so if that happens 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 certainly the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover someone who’s a great fit for you and in fact one of the
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advantages i feel of the better health platform is that you have this ability to quickly switch therapists so there’s some responsibility in that because certainly if better help has a therapist and people are always changing away from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s really tough to find evaluations unless you get a personal recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can compose an evaluation you can offer feedback and you can change therapists if you require 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 area however 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 take on psychotherapy customers just as an fyi since i get that question a lot however i associated with them since people all over the country and actually all over the world contact me regularly to state that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help provide service in 140 different nations 40 various languages i’m in positioning with their mission so there is a link below this video that will provide you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you really don’t get the option up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are offered you have 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 don’t know 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 again i do not know these people i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just revealing you how you can evaluate to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your area prior to signing up and after that if you actually liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she specializes in tension anxiety lgbt relationship issues trauma and abuse Betterhelp Compile Inc