Are Betterhelp therapists qualified? Talkspace V Better Help… From the perspective that i am a certified psychotherapist and i had a private practice for twenty years assisting people recover from stress and anxiety and injury and then also from the point of view that i’ve used better help as a client so today i’m going to talk about what it requires a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a better health therapist i also wish to show you a little a technique on the better help website that allows 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 little bit not quite concealed but type of concealed on the site and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i likewise want to address 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 want to make it clear that betterhelp just employs licensed experts and they match people with a certified specialist in your own state since in the u.s we have this function that the therapist requires to be licensed in the state where you reside so what does it take to be certified now certainly that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to walk you through what it takes to be licensed in connecticut where i live and after that inform you what else is needed to be a better health therapist so to end up being 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 clinical social work or marriage and family treatment or professional therapy and then once you have your graduate degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised by an expert who holds the license you’re seeking and you require a minimum of a hundred hours of guidance with this individual in which you discuss how you are offering treatment to your customers so usually attaining this lots of scientific 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 test and then you sit for the composed test and then if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s required to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and then 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 certainly not getting interns on better help you’re getting a therapist with an academic degree a strong variety of medical hours and a minimum of 3 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 just not real and the reason she calls them late counselors i wish to speak about that briefly is she says one they don’t recommend 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 recommend medication unless you also take place to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe medical doctors or psychiatric medications could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist or a certified professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 kinds of individuals who can prescribe medication the huge majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication due to the fact that they do not hold those other degrees and where i live very extremely couple of 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 do not deal with court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually attempted to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from someone who would remain 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 received probably five or 6 months earlier now i understand that this takes place i actually do but that’s not actually therapy that’s actually 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 therapy in a more Talkspace V Better Help
efficient manner so i just wanted to attend to those two criticisms since i do not feel they stand so before i share with you this little trick on the site for better help in regards to having the ability to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to state 2 things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is very important and the design of a therapist makes a huge difference how comfortable you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has a really costly rate at a private practice and still not enjoy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who’ve concerned me after seeing someone in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my office and they ‘d state my previous therapist did nothing however discuss herself well that’s not proper so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a community firm 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 differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent suitable for you and really among the benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to easily change therapists so there’s some accountability in that since certainly if better help has a therapist and people are constantly switching away 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 extremely tough to discover reviews unless you get an individual recommendation 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 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 choose a therapist who resonates for you in your location 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 because i get that concern a lot however i affiliated with them since
people all over the country and actually all over the world contact me regularly to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help provide service in 140 various 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 site you actually do not get the choice up here to put your postal code in and see what therapists are available 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 do not understand any therapists there however i’m just going to try it and you will get an entire host of therapists and you can take a look and again i do not understand these individuals i’m not promoting them in any way i’m just 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 truly liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she specializes in stress anxiety lgbt relationship concerns trauma and abuse self-confidence seven years of experience each therapist composes a little paragraph to describe what kind 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 most people registering for better help go here what type of therapy are you searching for so say it’s individual and then you choose your gender and after that your age and you go through a whole series of concerns and after that what concerns you are entering into therapy for so this would be the method lots of people apply for better help and you submit the kind and then they get back to you with a therapist that they recommend or you can try the other path now undoubtedly with the other path you will not understand if that therapist has availability but it does allow you to truly evaluate for therapists the same way that you would on psychology today or any other treatment website so i believe that’s an extremely useful function on the betterhelp platform so then i put in connecticut simply to screen through what therapists are readily available in my area of connecticut and i’m simply going to click on this person here for a second joseph dickerson so once again it provides you his individual statement about his focus in counseling it tells you what his specializeds are what his scientific methods are so this person works with cognitive behavior modification has 32 years of experience works with the messaging the live chat the phone the video offers you his licensing number in connecticut and after that you can click deal with me so comment listed below let me know if this video was valuable for you let me understand if you’ve utilized a better help therapist and what you felt whether you felt they were well certified or not and i genuinely hope this video was handy to you if yes please do give it a like please share it with someone you think it might benefit and subscribe to my channel if you’re not subscribed if you are new to this channel take a look i have a vast array of videos on cognitive behavioral therapy emdr and total how to live a more cheerful life so i weave together mindfulness Talkspace V Better Help