from stress and anxiety and trauma.Katie Morton Betterhelp. and then also from the point of view that i have actually used better help as a customer so today i’m going to speak about what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it takes to be a better health therapist i likewise want to show you a little bit of a trick on the better help site that permits 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 little bit not quite surprise but type of hidden on the website and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also wish to attend to some criticisms that i have actually heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube evaluation videos so let’s get going so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp just works with certified specialists and they match individuals with a licensed professional in your own state since in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be accredited in the state where you live so what does it require certified now obviously that varies a bit state by state however 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 better health therapist so to end up being licensed you require an academic degree in one of a handful of locations so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and household treatment or professional therapy and then when you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being supervised by an expert who holds the license you’re looking for and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this person in which you discuss how you are offering treatment to your customers so usually accomplishing this numerous medical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written exam and after that you sit for the composed exam and after that if you pass you get licensed so that’s what’s required to be accredited as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you wish to work for better help you require 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 an academic degree a solid variety of clinical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been licensed so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is simply not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i want to discuss that briefly is she says one they do not recommend medication and 2 they do not deal with court orders so let me address those 2 things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise occur to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical doctors could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Katie Morton Betterhelp
or a certified professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only two kinds of individuals who can prescribe medication the huge majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very extremely couple of psychiatrists also do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and after that the 2nd criticism that they do not deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i really tried to avoid handling court orders and i will share with you why most of the time what would take place is i would get a phone call from someone who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week since they needed to go to court next week and they were trying to meet the requirement that they had received probably 5 or six months back now i understand that this takes place i truly do but that’s not in fact therapy that’s actually doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for a lot of court-ordered treatment there are community agencies that can provide that type of therapy in a more efficient manner so i just wished to attend to those 2 criticisms due to the fact that i don’t feel they’re valid so before i share with you this little technique 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 state 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is very essential and the style of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has an extremely costly rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who have actually come to me after seeing somebody in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my workplace and they ‘d state my previous therapist did nothing however discuss herself well that’s not appropriate so if that takes place to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood 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 absolutely the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent suitable for you and really one of the
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advantages i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to easily switch therapists so there’s some responsibility because because certainly if better help has a therapist and individuals are always changing far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s really tough to find evaluations unless you get a personal recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can read reviews you can write a review you can supply feedback and you can change therapists if you require to so before i show you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and choose a therapist who resonates for you in your area but i do have a link below this video that supplies 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 take on psychotherapy customers just as an fyi because i get that concern a lot however i affiliated with them since individuals all over the nation and actually all over the world contact me frequently to state that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 various countries 40 various languages i’m in positioning with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will offer you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you truly don’t 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 do not understand any therapists there however i’m just going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can have 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 evaluate to see who the therapists are that are offered in your location prior to signing up and after that if you truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on tension anxiety lgbt relationship concerns injury and abuse Katie Morton Betterhelp