from stress and anxiety and injury.Betterhelp Counseling Room. and then likewise from the point of view that i’ve 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 takes to be a better health therapist i likewise want to show you a little bit of a technique on the better help site that permits you to take a look at who the therapists remain in your location read their profiles and choose one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a bit not quite surprise but sort of concealed on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also want to attend to some criticisms that i’ve become aware 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 works with certified experts and they match individuals with a licensed professional in your own state because in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be licensed in the state where you live so what does it take to be accredited now undoubtedly that differs a bit state by state but i’m going to walk you through what it takes to be
certified in connecticut where i live and then inform 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 might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in medical social work or marriage and family treatment or professional counseling and after that once you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being monitored by a specialist who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this individual in which you discuss how you are supplying treatment to your customers so normally attaining this lots of scientific hours and this much supervision probably averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the scientific hours to even then sit for the composed examination and after that you sit for the composed test and then if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be accredited as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you wish to work for better help you require a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually 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 three years of experience after they have actually been licensed so there’s a preferred video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is merely not real and the reason she calls them late therapists i want to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not prescribe medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me address those 2 things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise happen to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can recommend medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Counseling Room
or a certified professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of individuals 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 really few psychiatrists also do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and then the 2nd criticism that they don’t handle court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i truly attempted to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from someone who would be in a panic asking to have five 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 gotten probably five or six months back now i understand that this happens i actually do but that’s not actually therapy that’s in fact doing something to please a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and probably for the majority of court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can provide that kind of therapy in a more reliable way so i just wished to address those two criticisms because i don’t feel they’re valid so before i share with you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to being able to find someone in your own location that you resonate with i want to state two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is very important 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 someone who has a really costly rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had clients who’ve come to me after seeing somebody 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 did nothing but discuss herself well that’s not proper so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a community agency or on better help change therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so certainly the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you have to find somebody who’s a great suitable for you and actually one of the
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benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this ability to easily switch therapists so there’s some accountability in that due to the fact that certainly if better help has a therapist and individuals are always changing far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s really tough to find evaluations unless you get an individual suggestion to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can check out reviews you can write an evaluation you can provide feedback and you can change therapists if you need to so before i share with 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 clients just as an fyi since i get that question a lot but i affiliated with them due to the fact that individuals all over the nation and in fact all over the world contact me routinely to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help provide service in 140 various nations 40 various languages i’m in alignment with their objective so there is a link listed below this video that will give you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you actually do not get the option up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are available 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 don’t live there
i don’t know any therapists there but i’m just going to try it and you will get an entire host of therapists and you can take a look and once again i do not understand these people i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just showing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are offered in your location prior to signing up and after that if you actually liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she focuses on tension anxiety lgbt relationship problems trauma and abuse Betterhelp Counseling Room