from anxiety and injury.Betterhelp Press Release. and then likewise from the perspective that i’ve utilized 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 wish to reveal you a little a trick on the better help site that enables you to take a look at who the therapists are in your location read their profiles and select one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite hidden however kind of hidden on the site and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also wish to deal with some criticisms that i have actually become aware of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s start so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp just works with certified specialists and they match people with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be certified in the state where you live so what does it take to be licensed now undoubtedly that differs a bit state by state but i’m going to stroll you through what it requires
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 a graduate degree in one of a handful of areas so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marriage and family treatment or professional therapy and after that when you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being monitored by a professional who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you go over how you are supplying therapy to your clients so generally attaining this many clinical hours and this much guidance most likely 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 composed exam and after that if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s needed to be accredited as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you want to work for better help you need a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually been certified so you are absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a strong number of medical hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they’ve been certified so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is simply not true and the factor she calls them late therapists i wish to discuss that briefly is she states one they don’t recommend medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me address those two things since in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you also take place 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 family doctor or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Press Release
or a licensed professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only two kinds of people who can prescribe medication the vast bulk of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very really few psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists focus on recommending the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and then the second criticism that they don’t handle court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually tried to prevent handling court orders and i will share with you why most of the time what would happen is i would get a telephone 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 fulfill the requirement that they had actually gotten probably five or 6 months ago now i comprehend that this occurs i truly do however that’s not really treatment that’s really doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and most likely for most court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood companies that can supply that kind of treatment in a more efficient manner so i just wanted to deal with those two criticisms because 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 find somebody in your own area that you resonate with i ‘d like to say two things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is incredibly important and the style of a therapist makes a big difference how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has an extremely pricey rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i have actually had customers who’ve concerned 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 state my prior therapist not did anything however speak about herself well that’s not appropriate so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood firm or on better help change 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 need to find somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and in fact among the
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advantages i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to easily change therapists so there’s some accountability because due to the fact that obviously if better help has a therapist and people are constantly 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 difficult to discover reviews unless you get a personal 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 compose an evaluation you can provide feedback and you can switch therapists if you require to so prior to i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and select a therapist who resonates for you in your location however i do have a link below this video that provides you with 10 off your very 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 due to the fact that i get that concern a lot however i associated with them since individuals all over the nation and really all over the world contact me routinely to say that they don’t have access to mental 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 below this video that will give you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you truly don’t get the choice up here to put your zip 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 select baltimore maryland i do not 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 again i don’t know these individuals 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 readily available in your area 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 issues injury and abuse Betterhelp Press Release