videos so let’s get going so i first wish to make it clear that betterhelp only hires certified experts …Boogie Better Help…and they match people with a licensed professional in your own state because 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 require licensed now certainly that differs a little bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be
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licensed in connecticut where i live and after that inform you what else is required to be a much better health therapist so to become certified you need a graduate degree in one of a handful of areas so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in medical social work or marital relationship and family treatment or expert counseling and then once you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored by an expert who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this individual in which you go over how you are offering therapy to your customers so generally attaining this numerous medical hours and this much guidance probably averages around 3 or 4 years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the composed exam and then you sit for the composed examination and then if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s needed to be licensed 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’ve been certified so you are certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with a graduate degree a solid number of medical hours and a minimum of 3 years of experience after they have actually been licensed so there’s an incredibly popular video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is just not true and the factor she calls them late therapists i wish to discuss that briefly is she says one they do not recommend medication and two they don’t handle court orders so let me attend to those two things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you also occur 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 Boogie Better Help
or a certified 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 bulk of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication due to the fact that they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very very couple of psychiatrists likewise 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 second criticism that they do not handle court orders i will inform you in my own private practice i really tried to avoid handling court orders and i will share with you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from someone who would be 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 fulfill the requirement that they had received probably 5 or six months ago now i comprehend that this occurs i truly do but that’s not actually therapy that’s actually doing something to please a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and probably for most court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can supply that type of treatment in a more reliable manner so i simply wished to address those two criticisms since i do not feel they stand so before i share with you this little technique on the website for better help in regards to having the ability to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to say 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is incredibly essential and the style of a therapist makes a huge distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you might go to somebody who has an extremely pricey 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 come into my office and they ‘d say my prior therapist did nothing but talk about herself well that’s not appropriate so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a community 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 differs no matter what their training or background and you need to discover somebody who’s a great fit for you and really among 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 responsibility in that because certainly if better help has a therapist and individuals are always switching far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you inform and then it’s really difficult to discover evaluations unless you get an individual recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do think 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 need 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 location however i do have a link listed below this video that provides 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 because i get that concern a lot but i affiliated with them since individuals all over the nation and actually all over the world contact me regularly to say that they do not have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 different countries 40 various languages i remain in positioning with their mission so there is a link below this video that will provide you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you really do not get the option up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are offered you need 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 pick baltimore maryland i do not live there
i don’t know 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 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 stress anxiety lgbt relationship problems trauma and abuse Boogie Better Help