licensed psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years helping individuals recover from anxiety and trauma…Online Counseling Michael Phelps 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 requires a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it takes to be a better health therapist i also want to show you a little bit of a trick on the better help website that enables you to look at who the therapists are in your location read their profiles and select one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a bit not quite concealed but sort of concealed on the site and i’m going to reveal 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 evaluation videos so let’s get going so i first wish to make it clear that betterhelp just hires certified specialists and they match people with a certified expert in your own state because in the u.s we have this role that the therapist needs to be accredited in the state where you live so what does it take to be certified now undoubtedly that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it requires
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accredited in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to end up being certified you require an academic degree in among 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 then once you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored 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 go over how you are providing therapy to your customers so normally accomplishing this numerous medical hours and this much guidance probably averages around three or 4 years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written test and then you sit for the composed examination and then if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s required to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you want to work for better help you require a minimum of three years of experience after you have actually been accredited so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a solid number of scientific hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been licensed so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is merely not true and the reason she calls them late counselors i want to talk about that briefly is she says one they do not prescribe medication and 2 they do not deal with court orders so let me resolve those 2 things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you also take place 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 family doctor or a psychiatrist Online Counseling Michael Phelps
or a licensed professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of individuals who can prescribe medication the large bulk of psychotherapists do not recommend medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very very couple of psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists focus on recommending the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and after that the 2nd criticism that they do not handle court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually attempted to avoid dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from someone 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 received most likely 5 or six months earlier now i understand that this takes place i actually do but that’s not actually treatment that’s in fact doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and most likely for many court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood firms that can provide that type of therapy in a more efficient manner so i just wished to address those two criticisms since i don’t feel they’re valid so before i show you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to having the ability to discover somebody in your own area that you resonate with i wish to state 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is super crucial and the style of a therapist makes a huge difference how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has a really costly rate at a private practice and still not enjoy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who have actually come to me after seeing somebody in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my office and they ‘d say 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 community agency or on better help switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something egregious you can report it to the state licensing board so certainly the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you need to discover someone who’s an excellent fit for you and actually among 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 individuals are constantly switching away from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you inform and then it’s very difficult to find reviews unless you get an individual recommendation 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 reviews you can compose a review you can provide feedback and you can switch therapists if you require to so prior to i show 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 listed below this video that offers 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 handle psychotherapy clients just as an fyi because i get that question a lot but i affiliated with them due to the fact that people all over the nation and actually all over the world contact me regularly to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help provide service in 140 different nations 40 various languages i’m in positioning with their mission so there is a link below this video that will offer you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you actually do not get the choice 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 select baltimore maryland i don’t live there
i don’t understand any therapists there however i’m just going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and again i do not understand these people i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply 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 truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she concentrates on tension anxiety lgbt relationship issues injury and abuse Online Counseling Michael Phelps