certified psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years assisting people recover from anxiety and trauma…Betterhelp Drama and then likewise from the perspective that i’ve used better help as a client so today i’m going to talk about what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a much better health therapist i also want to show you a bit of a technique on the better help site that enables 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 bit not quite concealed however sort of concealed on the website and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also want to address some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get going so i very first want to make it clear that betterhelp just works with certified professionals and they match individuals with a licensed specialist in your own state because in the u.s we have this role that the therapist needs to be licensed in the state where you reside so what does it require accredited now certainly that varies a bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it requires
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certified in connecticut where i live and then tell you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to become certified you need a graduate 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 therapy or professional counseling and after that as soon as you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised by a professional 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 discuss how you are supplying therapy to your customers so generally attaining this numerous clinical hours and this much supervision probably averages around three or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written exam and then you sit for the composed exam and after that if you pass you get licensed so that’s what’s needed to be accredited as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then if you want to work for better help you need a minimum of three years of experience after you have actually been licensed 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 slams better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is simply not true and the reason she calls them late counselors i want to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not recommend medication and two they do not deal with court orders so let me resolve those two things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you also take place 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 Betterhelp Drama
or a certified professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can recommend medication the huge bulk of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication because they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live very really few psychiatrists also do treatment 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 don’t deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i actually attempted to avoid dealing with court orders and i will share with you why most of the time what would take place is i would get a telephone call from someone who would remain in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week due to the fact that they needed to go to court next week and they were attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually received most likely five or 6 months ago now i understand that this takes place i actually do however that’s not actually treatment that’s actually doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and most likely for a lot of court-ordered therapy there are neighborhood companies that can provide that type of treatment in a more efficient way so i simply wanted to address those 2 criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so before i share with you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to being able to discover someone in your own area that you resonate with i wish to state two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is super crucial and the design of a therapist makes a big difference how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to somebody who has a very costly rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who’ve concerned me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they come into my workplace and they ‘d say my previous therapist not did anything but speak about herself well that’s not suitable so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community company or on better help change 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 varies no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent suitable for you and really among the
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advantages i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this ability to quickly change therapists so there’s some responsibility in that because obviously if better help has a therapist and individuals are constantly switching far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and after that it’s really difficult to find evaluations unless you get an individual 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 offer 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 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 customers just as an fyi since i get that question a lot but i affiliated with them because individuals all over the nation and really all over the world contact me frequently to state that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help supply service in 140 various countries 40 different 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 first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you truly don’t get the choice up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are available 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 do not know any therapists there however i’m just 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 understand these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply revealing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your area prior to signing up and then if you actually liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on stress anxiety lgbt relationship problems trauma and abuse Betterhelp Drama