Are Betterhelp therapists qualified? Memeology 101 Better Help… From the perspective that i am a licensed psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years assisting individuals recover from stress and anxiety and injury and after that likewise from the perspective that i’ve utilized better help as a customer 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 wish to reveal you a bit of a technique on the better help site that allows you to take a look at who the therapists remain in your area read their profiles and choose one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a bit not quite covert but sort of concealed on the website and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i likewise want to resolve some criticisms that i have actually heard 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 hires certified experts and they match people with a licensed expert in your own state since in the u.s we have this role that the therapist needs to be accredited in the state where you reside so what does it require licensed now clearly that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be licensed in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to end up being licensed you require a graduate degree in among a handful of areas so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and household therapy or expert counseling and after that as soon as you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised by a professional who holds the license you’re seeking and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this person in which you discuss how you are offering treatment to your clients so typically attaining this numerous scientific hours and this much supervision probably averages around three or four years of experience to get the medical hours to even then sit for the composed examination and after that you sit for the written examination and then if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s needed to be licensed 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 certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic 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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an incredibly popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is simply not true and the reason she calls them late counselors i wish to discuss that briefly is she says one they do not prescribe medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me attend to those 2 things because in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you also happen to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can recommend psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist or a licensed professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of individuals who can prescribe medication the vast bulk of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication since they don’t hold those other degrees and where i live extremely extremely few psychiatrists likewise do therapy most psychiatrists concentrate on prescribing the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a legitimate 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 actually tried to prevent dealing with 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 somebody who would be in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week since they needed to go to court next week and they were trying to fulfill the requirement that they had received most likely 5 or six months earlier now i comprehend that this occurs i truly do but that’s not actually therapy that’s really doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for the majority of court-ordered treatment there are community agencies that can offer that kind of treatment in a more Memeology 101 Better Help
reliable manner so i just wanted to resolve those 2 criticisms since i don’t feel they’re valid so prior to i show you this little technique on the website for better help in regards to being able to discover someone in your own area that you resonate with i want to say two things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is extremely essential and the style of a therapist makes a huge difference how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to somebody who has a very pricey rate at a private practice and still not enjoy with the therapist right i’ve had clients who’ve pertained to me after seeing somebody 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 discuss herself well that’s not suitable 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 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 find somebody who’s an excellent suitable for you and really one of the benefits i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to easily switch therapists so there’s some responsibility in that since obviously if better help has a therapist and people are constantly changing far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and after that it’s really difficult to discover evaluations unless you get an individual recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do believe that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can compose a review you can supply feedback and you can change therapists if you require to so prior to 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 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 handle psychotherapy customers just as an fyi due to the fact that i get that question a lot but i affiliated with them since
people all over the nation and actually 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 different countries 40 different languages i remain in alignment with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will provide 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 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 do not 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 do not know these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just showing you how you can screen to see who the therapists are that are readily available in your area prior to signing up and after that if you truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she focuses on stress anxiety lgbt relationship problems injury and abuse self-confidence seven years of experience each therapist writes a little paragraph to explain what sort of work that they do and after that you can click on the therapist who you go and like through the process to look for this therapist so many people signing up for better help go here what kind of treatment are you trying to find so state it’s specific and then you select your gender and after that your age and you go through a whole series of questions and then what issues you are coming into treatment for so this would be the way many individuals request better help and you complete the form and then they get back to you with a therapist that they suggest or you can attempt the other route now certainly with the other route you won’t understand if that therapist has accessibility however it does enable you to actually evaluate for therapists the same way that you would on psychology today or any other treatment site so i believe that’s a really beneficial function on the betterhelp platform so then i put in connecticut just to screen through what therapists are readily available in my location of connecticut and i’m just going to click this person here for a second joseph dickerson so once again it gives you his individual declaration about his focus in counseling it informs you what his specialties are what his clinical techniques are so this person works with cognitive behavioral therapy has 32 years of experience works with the messaging the live chat the phone the video offers you his licensing number in connecticut and then you can click work with me so comment listed below let me understand if this video was helpful for you let me know if you’ve used a better help therapist and what you felt whether you felt they were well qualified or not and i genuinely hope this video was helpful to you if yes please do provide it a like please share it with someone you think it might subscribe and benefit to my channel if you’re not subscribed if you are brand-new to this channel take a look i have a wide range of videos on cognitive behavior modification emdr and total how to live a more happy life so i weave together mindfulness Memeology 101 Better Help