from stress and anxiety and trauma.Danny Gonzalez Betterhelp. and after that likewise from the point of view that i have actually utilized 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 want to reveal you a bit of a technique on the better help site that permits 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 hidden on the website and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i likewise want to deal with some criticisms that i have actually heard of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s start so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp just works with certified specialists and they match people with a licensed specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this function that the therapist requires to be accredited in the state where you reside so what does it take to be certified now certainly that differs a little bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be
certified in connecticut where i live and then tell you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to become licensed you require an academic degree in one of a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marriage and household therapy or expert therapy and then when you have your academic 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 need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you talk about how you are supplying treatment to your clients so typically attaining this many scientific 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 examination and then you sit for the written examination and after that 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 need a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually been accredited so you are definitely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid number of clinical hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they’ve been certified so there’s a preferred video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is just not true and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to talk about that briefly is she says one they do not prescribe medication and two they don’t handle court orders so let me attend to those two things since 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 prescribe medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist Danny Gonzalez 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 large bulk of psychotherapists do not recommend medication due to the fact that they do not hold those other degrees and where i live extremely very few psychiatrists also do treatment most psychiatrists concentrate on recommending the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and then the 2nd criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually attempted to prevent handling court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would occur is i would get a phone call from someone who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week because they had to go to court next week and they were trying to meet the requirement that they had actually gotten probably five or six months ago now i understand that this occurs i truly do however that’s not in fact therapy that’s in fact doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and most likely for most court-ordered treatment there are community firms that can provide that type of therapy in a more efficient way so i just wanted to address those two criticisms because i do not feel they stand so before i show you this little technique on the website for better help in terms of being able to find someone in your own area that you resonate with i wish to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is extremely essential and the design of a therapist makes a big difference how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to somebody who has a really expensive rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who have actually concerned me after seeing someone in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my workplace and they ‘d say my previous therapist not did anything but talk about herself well that’s not proper so if that takes place to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood agency or on better help switch 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 need to discover someone who’s a good fit for you and actually among the
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benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly switch therapists so there’s some accountability in that because certainly if better help has a therapist and people are constantly changing far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you inform and after that it’s really tough to discover reviews unless you get an individual suggestion to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of a benefit of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can compose an evaluation you can provide feedback and you can switch 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 offers 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 handle psychotherapy clients just as an fyi since i get that question a lot however i associated 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 supply service in 140 various countries 40 different languages i’m in positioning with their objective 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 don’t get the option up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are offered you have to scroll all the way to the bottom and you’ll see here discover a therapist so you can put in any city in the united states i’m going to choose baltimore maryland i do not live there
i do not understand any therapists there but i’m simply going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and once again i don’t know these people i’m not promoting them in any way i’m simply revealing you how you can evaluate to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your location prior to signing up and then if you actually liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in tension anxiety lgbt relationship problems injury and abuse Danny Gonzalez Betterhelp