from stress and anxiety and trauma.Kandy Kakes Betterhelp. and then likewise from the point of view that i’ve used 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 takes to be a much better health therapist i also want to show you a little a trick on the better help website that allows you to take a 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 bit not quite hidden but type of hidden on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i likewise want to address some criticisms that i’ve become aware 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 only hires licensed experts and they match people with a certified professional in your own state because in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be certified in the state where you reside so what does it require certified now clearly that varies a little bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it requires
certified in connecticut where i live and then tell you what else is needed to be a better health therapist so to end up being certified you require a graduate degree in among a handful of areas so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and family treatment or expert therapy and after that once 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 need a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this individual in which you discuss how you are providing therapy to your customers so typically achieving this lots of medical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around three or 4 years of experience to get the scientific hours to even then sit for the composed 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 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 have actually been licensed so you are definitely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a strong variety 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 counselors which is just not real and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to talk about that briefly is she states one they don’t recommend medication and two they do not deal with court orders so let me deal with those two things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise happen to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Kandy Kakes Betterhelp
or a licensed professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can prescribe medication the large majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very really few psychiatrists likewise do treatment most psychiatrists focus on recommending the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and then the 2nd criticism that they don’t handle court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i really tried to prevent handling 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 remain in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week because they had to go to court next week and they were trying to fulfill the requirement that they had actually gotten most likely five or six months back now i understand that this happens i really do however that’s not in fact treatment that’s really doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for the majority of court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood firms that can provide that kind of therapy in a more reliable way so i simply wanted to address those two criticisms because i don’t feel they stand so before i show you this little trick on the site 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 extremely crucial and the style of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfy 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 be happy with the therapist right i have actually had customers who have actually concerned me after seeing someone in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my workplace and they ‘d state my prior therapist not did anything but speak about herself well that’s not suitable so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a community company 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 have to find someone who’s a good fit for you and really one of the
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benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to easily change therapists so there’s some accountability because since certainly if better help has a therapist and individuals are constantly changing 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 really difficult to find evaluations 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 check out reviews you can compose an evaluation you can offer 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 supplies 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 clients just as an fyi because i get that question a lot but i connected with them due to the fact that people all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me regularly to state that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help supply service in 140 different nations 40 different languages i’m in positioning with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will provide you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you truly don’t get the option 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 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 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 have a look and once again i do not know these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply showing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are available in your location 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 problems trauma and abuse Kandy Kakes Betterhelp