certified psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years helping individuals recover from stress and anxiety and trauma…Davidsocomedy Betterhelp and after that also from the point of view 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 better health therapist i also wish to show you a bit of a trick on the better help site that enables 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 little bit not quite concealed but kind of hidden on the site and i’m going to show 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 evaluation videos so let’s begin so i very first want to make it clear that betterhelp just hires licensed professionals and they match people with a certified specialist 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 undoubtedly that varies a little bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be
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licensed 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 a graduate degree in one of a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marital relationship and family therapy or expert counseling and after that when you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored by a specialist who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this individual in which you discuss how you are offering therapy to your clients so normally attaining this many clinical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around three or 4 years of experience to get the medical hours to even then sit for the written exam and then you sit for the written examination and after that if you pass you get certified 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 licensed so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a solid number of medical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been licensed so there’s a popular 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 therapists i want to speak about that briefly is she says one they do not prescribe medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me deal with those 2 things due to the fact that 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 recommend psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Davidsocomedy Betterhelp
or a licensed professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of individuals who can recommend medication the huge majority of psychotherapists do not recommend medication due to the fact that they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live really extremely few psychiatrists likewise do therapy most psychiatrists focus on recommending the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and then the second criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i really attempted to prevent handling court orders and i will share with you why most of the time what would occur is i would get a call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week due to the fact that they had to go to court next week and they were trying to satisfy the requirement that they had received most likely five or 6 months ago now i comprehend that this happens i actually do however that’s not actually treatment that’s in fact doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for most court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can offer that kind of treatment in a more efficient way so i simply wanted to resolve those two criticisms since i don’t feel they’re valid so prior to i show you this little trick on the website for better help in terms of having the ability to discover someone in your own area that you resonate with i ‘d like to state 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is extremely crucial and the style of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has an extremely costly rate at a private practice and still not more than happy with the therapist right i have actually had customers who have actually concerned me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my workplace and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything however talk about herself well that’s not appropriate so if that takes place to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood company or on better help change therapists and if a therapist ever does something egregious you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you need to find someone who’s a good fit for you and in fact one of the
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benefits i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to easily switch therapists so there’s some responsibility because since obviously if better help has a therapist and people are always switching away from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and after that it’s extremely hard to discover reviews unless you get an individual 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 evaluations you can compose a review you can supply 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 select 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 take on psychotherapy clients just as an fyi since i get that concern a lot however i affiliated with them because individuals all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me frequently to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help offer service in 140 different countries 40 various languages i remain in positioning with their mission so there is a link below this video that will offer you 10 percent off your very 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 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 select baltimore maryland i do not live there
i do not understand any therapists there however i’m simply going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can have a look and once again i don’t know these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just revealing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are available in your location prior to registering and after that if you truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on stress anxiety lgbt relationship issues trauma and abuse Davidsocomedy Betterhelp