from stress and anxiety and injury.Betterhelp Irresponsible. and then likewise from the viewpoint that i’ve used better help as a client so today i’m going to discuss what it requires a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it takes to be a much better health therapist i also wish to show you a bit of a technique on the better help site that enables 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 however kind of hidden on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also want to address some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube evaluation videos so let’s get started so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp just hires certified specialists and they match individuals with a certified professional in your own state since in the u.s we have this role that the therapist needs to be licensed in the state where you reside so what does it take to be licensed 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 needed to be a better health therapist so to end up being licensed you require a graduate degree in one of a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marital relationship and household treatment or professional counseling and after that when you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored by an expert who holds the license you’re looking for and you require a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this person in which you talk about how you are supplying therapy to your clients so usually accomplishing this lots of medical hours and this much supervision probably averages around 3 or 4 years of experience to get the scientific hours to even then sit for the written exam and after that you sit for the written exam and after that if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s required 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 absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid number of clinical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they have actually been licensed so there’s a very popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is simply not real and the factor she calls them late counselors i want to speak about that briefly is she says one they don’t recommend medication and two they don’t handle court orders so let me address those 2 things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you also happen to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Irresponsible
or a certified professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of people who can recommend medication the vast majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication because they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very extremely couple of psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists concentrate on recommending the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate 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 really tried to avoid handling court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would happen is i would get a telephone call from someone who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week because they needed to go to court next week and they were attempting to satisfy the requirement that they had actually gotten most likely five or six months earlier now i understand that this takes place i really do however that’s not in fact therapy that’s in fact doing something to please a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and most likely for a lot of court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood firms that can offer that type of treatment in a more reliable manner so i just wanted to resolve those 2 criticisms since i don’t feel they stand so prior to i show you this little technique on the site for better help in terms of being able to discover someone in your own area that you resonate with i wish to state two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is incredibly important and the design of a therapist makes a huge distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has a really costly rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i have actually had customers who have actually come to me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my workplace and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything but talk about herself well that’s not suitable so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community company 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 varies no matter what their training or background and you have to find someone who’s an excellent suitable 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 switch therapists so there’s some accountability because since obviously if better help has a therapist and individuals are always switching far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s extremely difficult to discover evaluations unless you get an individual 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 reviews you can write an evaluation you can provide feedback and you can change therapists if you require to so before i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and choose a therapist who resonates for you in your area but i do have a link below this video that provides 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 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 frequently to state that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 various countries 40 different languages i remain in alignment with their mission so there is a link below this video that will give you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you truly do not get the option up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are offered 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 but 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 do not know 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 location prior to signing up and after that if you really liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns trauma and abuse Betterhelp Irresponsible