from anxiety and trauma.Betterhelp Podcast Code. and then also from the point of view that i have actually utilized better help as a customer so today i’m going to discuss what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a better health therapist i also want to show you a bit of a trick on the better help website that permits 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 little bit not quite hidden but sort of concealed on the site and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also want to deal with some criticisms that i have actually heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get going so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp just employs certified experts and they match people 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 live so what does it take to be licensed now undoubtedly that differs a little bit state by state but i’m going to walk you through what it requires
certified in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is required to be a much better health therapist so to become certified you need an academic degree in among a handful of areas so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marital relationship and family therapy or professional therapy and then as soon as you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct customer 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 go over how you are supplying therapy to your clients so usually achieving this numerous medical hours and this much guidance probably averages around three or four years of experience to get the medical hours to even then sit for the written test and after that you sit for the written examination and after that if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that 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 absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a strong variety of scientific hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they have actually been accredited so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is merely not real and the reason she calls them late counselors i want to discuss that briefly is she states one they do not prescribe medication and two they do not deal with court orders so let me attend to those two things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise 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 general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Podcast Code
or a certified expert 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 since they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live really 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 really attempted to avoid handling court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would take place is i would get a phone call from somebody who would remain in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week since they had to go to court next week and they were trying to fulfill the requirement that they had received probably 5 or six months ago now i understand that this takes place i truly do but that’s not in fact therapy that’s really doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and most likely for a lot of court-ordered treatment there are community companies that can supply that kind of therapy in a more effective manner so i simply wanted to resolve those 2 criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so before i show you this little trick on the website for better help in terms of being able to discover somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is super essential 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 someone who has a really expensive 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 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 did nothing however speak about herself well that’s not suitable so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood 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 certainly the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and really 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 accountability in that because clearly if better help has a therapist and people are constantly switching away from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you inform and after that it’s very difficult to find reviews unless you get a personal suggestion to a private practice therapist so i do think that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can check out evaluations you can write a review you can provide feedback and you can switch therapists if you need to so prior to i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and pick 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 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 since i get that concern a lot but i connected with them due to the fact that individuals all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me frequently to state that they do not have access to psychological health services so better help offer service in 140 various countries 40 different languages i remain in positioning 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 truly do not 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 don’t live there
i don’t understand any therapists there but i’m simply 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 people 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 available in your area prior to signing up and then if you truly liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in stress anxiety lgbt relationship issues trauma and abuse Betterhelp Podcast Code