from anxiety and trauma.Groupon Betterhelp London. and after that also from the point of view that i’ve used better help as a customer so today i’m going to talk about what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it takes to be a better health therapist i also wish 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 are in your area read their profiles and choose one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite concealed but type of hidden on the site and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also wish to address some criticisms that i have actually become aware of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get started so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp only works with licensed specialists and they match people with a certified professional in your own state because in the u.s we have this role that the therapist needs to be accredited in the state where you reside so what does it take to be licensed now certainly that varies a little bit state by state but i’m going to walk you through what it requires
accredited in connecticut where i live and after that tell you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to become licensed you require a graduate degree in among a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific 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 specialist who holds the license you’re looking for and you require a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you talk about how you are offering treatment to your customers so usually accomplishing this lots of 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 test and then you sit for the written examination and then if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you wish to work for better help you need a minimum of three years of experience after you’ve been certified so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a strong number of scientific hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they have actually been licensed so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is just not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to talk about that briefly is she says one they don’t prescribe medication and two they don’t deal with court orders so let me attend to those two things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you also occur 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 family doctor or a psychiatrist Groupon Betterhelp London
or a certified professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of people who can prescribe medication the huge majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication because they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live very really couple of psychiatrists likewise do treatment 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 do not handle court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i really attempted to avoid dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week because they needed to go to court next week and they were attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually gotten probably five or 6 months back now i understand that this takes place i really do however that’s not really treatment that’s in fact doing something to satisfy 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 neighborhood companies that can offer that type of therapy in a more efficient way so i simply wanted to resolve those two criticisms due to the fact that i don’t feel they stand so prior to i share with you this little trick on the website for better help in regards to being able to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i ‘d like to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is super crucial and the design of a therapist makes a huge difference how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has a very expensive rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i’ve had clients who have actually pertained to me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my office and they ‘d state my previous therapist not did anything however talk about herself well that’s not suitable 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 outright 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 discover someone who’s a good fit for you and actually one of the
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benefits i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly change therapists so there’s some responsibility because because certainly if better help has a therapist and people are always switching far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s extremely tough to find reviews 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 evaluations you can write a review you can supply feedback and you can change therapists if you need to so before i show you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and choose a therapist who resonates for you in your location but i do have a link listed 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 customers just as an fyi because i get that question a lot but i connected with them because individuals all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me frequently to say that they do not have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 various nations 40 various languages i’m in positioning with their objective so there is a link below this video that will give you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you really do not get the choice 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 discover 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 do not know any therapists there however i’m simply going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and again i do not understand these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply revealing you how you can evaluate to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your location prior to signing up and after that if you truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she specializes in tension anxiety lgbt relationship problems trauma and abuse Groupon Betterhelp London