from stress and anxiety and trauma.Betterhelp Robert Bowman. and after that 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 requires a much better health therapist i also want to show you a bit of a technique on the better help website that enables 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 hidden however kind of concealed on the site and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i likewise want to attend to some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s begin so i very first want to make it clear that betterhelp just employs licensed specialists and they match people with a licensed specialist in your own state since in the u.s we have this function that the therapist needs to be licensed in the state where you reside so what does it require licensed now obviously that differs a little bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it requires
licensed in connecticut where i live and after that tell you what else is needed to be a better health therapist so to become certified you require an academic degree in one of a handful of areas so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marital relationship and household therapy or professional therapy and then as soon as you have your graduate degree you need 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 require a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this individual in which you talk about how you are offering therapy to your clients so generally attaining this numerous scientific hours and this much guidance probably averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the composed exam and after that you sit for the composed test and after that if you pass you get licensed so that’s what’s required to be accredited as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you wish to work for better help you need 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’ve 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 reason she calls them late counselors i wish to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not prescribe medication and two they don’t handle court orders so let me resolve those two things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you also take place to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can recommend psychiatric medications or medical doctors could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Robert Bowman
or a licensed expert nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can recommend medication the large majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication because they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live very really couple of psychiatrists likewise do therapy most psychiatrists concentrate on recommending the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and then the 2nd criticism that they do not deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i truly tried 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 someone who would remain 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 attempting to satisfy the requirement that they had received most likely five or six months back now i understand that this occurs i actually do however that’s not really therapy that’s in fact doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for most court-ordered therapy there are community firms that can offer that kind of treatment in a more reliable way so i simply wished to resolve those 2 criticisms since i do not feel they’re valid so before i show you this little technique on the site for better help in terms of having the ability to discover someone in your own location that you resonate with i ‘d like to say 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is extremely 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 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 enter into my office and they ‘d state my prior therapist did nothing but discuss herself well that’s not appropriate so if that takes place to you either with a private practice or a community agency or on better help change therapists and if a therapist ever does something egregious you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you have to find someone who’s a great suitable for you and actually 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 responsibility in that because obviously if better help has a therapist and people are constantly switching far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you inform and after that it’s extremely hard to find reviews unless you get a personal recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of a benefit of the better help platform that you can check out reviews you can write an evaluation you can supply 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 but 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 clients just as an fyi due to the fact that i get that question a lot however i affiliated with them since people all over the nation and actually all over the world contact me regularly to say that they do not have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 various countries 40 various languages i’m in alignment with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will provide you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you actually don’t get the option up here to put your zip 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 select baltimore maryland i don’t live there
i don’t know any therapists there but i’m simply going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and once again i do not understand 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 offered in your area prior to registering and then if you really liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she focuses on tension anxiety lgbt relationship concerns trauma and abuse Betterhelp Robert Bowman