from anxiety and trauma.Betterhelp Kay Grossman. and after that also from the perspective that i’ve used better help as a client so today i’m going to talk about what it requires a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a much better health therapist i also want to reveal you a little bit of a technique on the better help site that allows you to look at who the therapists are in your area read their profiles and pick one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite covert however kind of concealed on the website and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i likewise wish to resolve some criticisms that i have actually become aware of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s begin so i first wish to make it clear that betterhelp only works with certified professionals and they match individuals with a certified professional in your own state because in the u.s we have this function that the therapist requires to be certified in the state where you reside so what does it require licensed now undoubtedly that differs a little bit state by state but i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be
certified in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is required to be a much better health therapist so to end up being licensed you need a graduate degree in among a handful of locations so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marital relationship and household therapy or expert counseling and after that once you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored by a professional who holds the license you’re looking for and you need 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 typically attaining this many medical hours and this much supervision probably averages around three or 4 years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written test and then you sit for the composed exam and after that if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s required to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you want to work for better help you need 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 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 merely not true and the factor she calls them late therapists i want to speak about that briefly is she states 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 recommend medication unless you likewise happen to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Kay Grossman
or a licensed professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of individuals who can recommend medication the large majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live extremely very couple of psychiatrists also do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and after that the second criticism that they do not handle court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i really attempted to prevent handling court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would take place is i would get a phone call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week due to the fact that they needed to go to court next week and they were trying to meet the requirement that they had received probably 5 or six months earlier now i understand that this happens i really do however that’s not actually therapy 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 most court-ordered treatment there are community companies that can offer that type of therapy in a more reliable way so i just wished to attend to those two criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so prior to i share with you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to having the ability to find somebody in your own area that you resonate with i want to say 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is extremely crucial and the design of a therapist makes a huge distinction how comfortable 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 more than happy with the therapist right i’ve had clients who’ve pertained to me after seeing someone 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 however 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 switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something egregious 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 find somebody who’s a good suitable 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 capability to quickly switch therapists so there’s some accountability because due to the fact that undoubtedly if better help has a therapist and individuals are constantly changing away from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and after that it’s very tough to discover evaluations unless you get a personal 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 reviews you can compose a review you can supply feedback and you can change therapists if you require to so prior to i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and choose a therapist who resonates for you in your location however i do have a link 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 handle psychotherapy customers just as an fyi because i get that concern a lot but i affiliated with them since individuals all over the country and really all over the world contact me frequently to say that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 different nations 40 various languages i remain in positioning with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will give you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you truly don’t get the option up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are 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 know any therapists there however i’m simply going to try it and you will get an entire host of therapists and you can have a look and once again i don’t know these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply showing 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 truly liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in tension anxiety lgbt relationship issues trauma and abuse Betterhelp Kay Grossman