Are Betterhelp therapists qualified? Better Help 45 Min Session… From the point of view that i am a licensed psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years helping individuals recover from stress and anxiety and trauma and then also from the perspective that i’ve used better help as a customer so today i’m going to speak about what it takes to be 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 trick on the better help site that enables you to take a 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 little bit not quite concealed but kind 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 have actually become aware of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s start so i first wish to make it clear that betterhelp just works with licensed specialists and they match individuals with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this function that the therapist needs to be accredited in the state where you reside so what does it take to be accredited now clearly that differs a little bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it requires licensed in connecticut where i live and after that inform you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to become certified you need an academic degree in among a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in medical social work or marriage and household treatment or expert counseling and after that as soon as you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised 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 talk about how you are providing treatment to your clients so typically attaining this lots of scientific hours and this much guidance probably averages around 3 or 4 years of experience to get the medical 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 then if you want to work for better help you require a minimum of 3 years of experience after you have actually been accredited so you are absolutely not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid variety of scientific hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they have actually been certified so there’s
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a popular video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is merely not real and the factor she calls them late counselors i wish to speak about that briefly is she states one they do not prescribe medication and 2 they don’t handle court orders so let me deal with those two things because 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 individuals in the united states who can prescribe medical physicians or psychiatric medications could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist or a licensed expert nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can recommend medication the vast majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication due to the fact that they do not hold those other degrees and where i live extremely very few psychiatrists likewise do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate criticism and after that the second criticism that they do not handle 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 the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from somebody 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 attempting to fulfill the requirement that they had actually gotten probably five or six months earlier now i comprehend that this takes place i actually do however that’s not really treatment that’s really doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for a lot of court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood firms that can supply that kind of treatment in a more Better Help 45 Min Session
efficient manner so i just wished to resolve those two criticisms because i don’t feel they’re valid so before i show you this little technique on the site for better help in regards to being able to discover somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to state two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is super important and the style of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has a very 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 not did anything but speak about herself well that’s not proper so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community agency or on better help change 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 varies no matter what their training or background and you need to discover somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and really among the benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly change therapists so there’s some accountability in that due to the fact that undoubtedly if better help has a therapist and individuals are constantly changing far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and after that it’s really tough to find reviews unless you get a personal 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 write an evaluation you can supply feedback and you can change therapists if you require to so before i share with 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 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 affiliated with them since
individuals all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me routinely to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help supply service in 140 various nations 40 various languages i remain in positioning with their objective so there is a link listed 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 choice up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are available 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 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 an entire host of therapists and you can have a look and once again i do not know these individuals 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 available in your area prior to signing up and after that if you really liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she focuses on stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns injury and abuse self-confidence 7 years of experience each therapist composes a little paragraph to explain what type of work that they do and after that you can click on the therapist who you like and go through the procedure to look for this therapist so the majority of people registering for better help go here what type of therapy are you trying to find so say it’s private and then you select your gender and then your age and you go through an entire series of questions and after that what problems you are entering into therapy for so this would be the method lots of people apply for better help and you complete the type and then they return to you with a therapist that they recommend or you can attempt the other path now undoubtedly with the other route you will not know if that therapist has accessibility however it does permit you to truly evaluate for therapists the same way that you would on psychology today or any other treatment site so i believe that’s an extremely beneficial function on the betterhelp platform so then i put in connecticut just to screen through what therapists are offered in my area of connecticut and i’m simply going to click on this person here for a second joseph dickerson so again it gives you his personal statement about his focus in counseling it tells you what his specialties are what his medical techniques are so this person deals with cognitive behavior modification has 32 years of experience deals with the messaging the live chat the phone the video gives you his licensing number in connecticut and after that you can click deal with me so comment below let me understand if this video was useful for you let me understand if you have actually used a better help therapist and what you felt whether you felt they were well certified or not and i truly hope this video was handy to you if yes please do provide it a like please share it with somebody you think it may benefit and subscribe to my channel if you’re not subscribed if you are new to this channel have a look i have a vast array of videos on cognitive behavioral therapy emdr and general how to live a more happy life so i weave together mindfulness Better Help 45 Min Session