from stress and anxiety and injury.Shane Dawson And Betterhelp. and after that likewise from the perspective that i have actually used better help as a customer so today i’m going to discuss what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it takes to be a better health therapist i likewise want to reveal you a little bit of a trick on the better help site that enables you to look at who the therapists remain in your area read their profiles and pick one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a bit not quite covert however type of hidden on the website and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i likewise wish to resolve some criticisms that i have actually become aware of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube review videos so let’s get going so i very first wish to make it clear that betterhelp just works with certified specialists and they match people with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be accredited in the state where you reside so what does it take to be certified now obviously that differs a little bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it requires
certified in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to become certified you need a graduate degree in one of a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in medical social work or marital relationship and household therapy or expert counseling and after that 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 looking for and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you discuss how you are providing therapy to your clients so normally accomplishing this numerous clinical hours and this much guidance probably averages around 3 or four years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the composed examination and then you sit for the written examination and then if you pass you get licensed so that’s what’s needed to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you want to work for better help you need a minimum of three years of experience after you’ve been licensed so you are absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid variety of medical hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been accredited so there’s a popular video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is just not real and the reason she calls them late counselors i want to speak about that briefly is she states one they do not prescribe medication and 2 they do not deal with 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 happen to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can recommend medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Shane Dawson And Betterhelp
or a licensed expert nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can recommend medication the large 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 also do therapy most psychiatrists concentrate on recommending the medication and leave the treatment 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 tell you in my own private practice i truly tried to avoid dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would occur is i would get a call from somebody 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 satisfy the requirement that they had actually gotten probably five or six months earlier now i comprehend that this takes place i really do however that’s not in fact treatment that’s in fact doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for many court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can provide that type of therapy in a more efficient manner so i just wanted to resolve those 2 criticisms since i don’t feel they stand so before i share with you this little technique on the website for better help in terms of being able to discover somebody in your own location that you resonate with i want to say 2 things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is super important and the style of a therapist makes a huge distinction how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to someone who has a very expensive rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i have actually 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 office and they ‘d say my prior therapist did nothing but talk about 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 change therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and really one of 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 due to the fact that obviously if better help has a therapist and individuals are always changing away from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody 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 think that’s sort of a benefit of the better help platform that you can check out reviews you can compose an evaluation you can provide feedback and you can switch 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 area but i do have a link 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 take on psychotherapy customers just as an fyi due to the fact that i get that question a lot however i associated with them due to the fact that individuals all over the nation and in fact all over the world contact me routinely to say that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help supply service in 140 various countries 40 various languages i’m in positioning with their objective so there is a link below this video that will give you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you truly do not get the option up here to put your postal 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 select baltimore maryland i do not live there
i don’t understand any therapists there however 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 don’t understand these people 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 readily available in your location prior to signing up and then if you truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she specializes in stress anxiety lgbt relationship issues injury and abuse Shane Dawson And Betterhelp