certified psychotherapist and i had a private practice for twenty years helping individuals recover from anxiety and injury…Velma Jones Betterhelp and then also from the perspective that i have actually used better help as a client so today i’m going to discuss what it requires 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 bit of a technique on the better help site that allows you to take a look at who the therapists are in your location read their profiles and choose one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite concealed but sort of concealed on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also wish to resolve some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube review videos so let’s start so i first wish to make it clear that betterhelp just works with licensed experts and they match people with a licensed 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 require certified now undoubtedly that varies a bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it takes to be
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licensed in connecticut where i live and then tell you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to end up being 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 marital relationship and family therapy or professional therapy and then as soon as you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being monitored by a professional who holds the license you’re seeking and you require a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you talk about how you are supplying treatment to your customers so generally achieving this many clinical hours and this much guidance most likely averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written test and then you sit for the written test and then if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then 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 definitely 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’ve been accredited so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is merely not real and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to discuss that briefly is she states one they don’t recommend medication and 2 they do not deal with court orders so let me address those two things since in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you likewise occur to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe medical doctors or psychiatric medications could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Velma Jones Betterhelp
or a licensed expert nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only two types of individuals who can recommend medication the vast bulk of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication because they do not hold those other degrees and where i live really really few psychiatrists also do therapy most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the therapy to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and after that the 2nd criticism that they do not deal with court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i truly tried to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would happen is i would get a call from someone who would be in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week since they needed to go to court next week and they were trying to meet the requirement that they had gotten probably 5 or 6 months earlier now i understand that this occurs i truly do however that’s not really treatment that’s really doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and probably for most court-ordered treatment there are community agencies that can offer that type of treatment in a more reliable way so i just wished to deal with those two criticisms since i do not feel they’re valid so before i share with you this little trick on the site for better help in terms of having the ability to discover somebody in your own area that you resonate with i want to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is super crucial and the design of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to somebody who has an extremely expensive rate at a private practice and still not enjoy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who’ve concerned me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my office and they ‘d state my prior therapist did nothing however discuss herself well that’s not suitable so if that happens 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 absolutely the quality of the therapist varies no matter what their training or background and you have to find somebody who’s a great suitable for you and actually 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 accountability because since undoubtedly if better help has a therapist and individuals are always changing far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s extremely hard to discover evaluations unless you get an individual suggestion to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can check out evaluations you can write an evaluation you can offer feedback and you can change therapists if you need to so prior to i share with 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 clients just as an fyi because i get that question a lot but i connected with them due to the fact that individuals all over the country and actually all over the world contact me regularly to state that they do not have access to psychological 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 below this video that will give you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you actually don’t get the option up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are readily 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 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 take a look and once again i do not understand these individuals 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 readily available in your location prior to registering and then if you truly liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she focuses on stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns injury and abuse Velma Jones Betterhelp