from anxiety and injury.Andrea Chen Betterhelp. and after that also from the viewpoint 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 better health therapist i likewise want to reveal you a little bit of a technique on the better help website that enables you to take a look at who the therapists remain in your area read their profiles and pick one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a bit not quite hidden however kind of concealed on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also wish to attend to some criticisms that i’ve become aware of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube evaluation videos so let’s get started so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp only hires licensed professionals and they match people with a licensed specialist in your own state since in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be licensed in the state where you live so what does it take to be accredited now certainly that varies a bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it requires
licensed in connecticut where i live and after that inform you what else is required to be a much better health therapist so to become licensed you need an academic degree in among a handful of locations so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in medical social work or marital relationship and household treatment or professional counseling and after that when you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer 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 supervision with this individual in which you discuss how you are offering treatment to your customers so generally attaining this numerous medical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around 3 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 exam and after that if you pass you get licensed so that’s what’s needed to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you wish to work for better help you require a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually been certified so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a solid number of clinical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they have actually been accredited so there’s a preferred video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is just not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to discuss that briefly is she states one they do not recommend medication and two they don’t deal with court orders so let me deal with those two things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you likewise occur to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can recommend medical doctors or psychiatric medications could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Andrea Chen Betterhelp
or a licensed expert nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of individuals who can recommend medication the large bulk of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live really very few psychiatrists likewise 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 2nd criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i truly attempted to avoid dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would occur 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 attempting to meet the requirement that they had received probably 5 or six months earlier now i understand that this takes place i actually do however that’s not actually treatment 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 the majority of court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can offer that kind of treatment in a more efficient way so i just wished to address those 2 criticisms because i do not feel they stand so before i share with you this little technique on the website for better help in terms of having the ability to discover somebody in your own location that you resonate with i want to say 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is super important 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 costly rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had clients who’ve pertained to me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my workplace and they ‘d state my prior therapist did nothing however discuss herself well that’s not proper so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood firm or on better help change therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover someone who’s a good suitable for you and really 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 because since clearly if better help has a therapist and individuals are constantly changing away from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s extremely difficult to find reviews unless you get a personal recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do think that’s sort of a benefit of the better help platform that you can check out evaluations you can write a review you can offer feedback and you can switch therapists if you need to so before i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and pick 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 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 because i get that question a lot however i affiliated with them due to the fact that individuals all over the nation and actually all over the world contact me frequently to state that they do not have access to psychological health services so better help supply service in 140 different countries 40 various languages i’m in alignment with their objective so there is a link below this video that will provide you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you really do not get the option up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are offered you have 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 don’t 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 have a look and again i do not know these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just showing you how you can evaluate to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your area prior to registering and after that if you really liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns injury and abuse Andrea Chen Betterhelp