You a bit of a trick on the better help site …Jacksepticeye Betterhelp…that allows you to look at who the therapists are in your area read their profiles and select one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite hidden however sort of hidden on the site and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also want to address some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube evaluation videos so let’s get going so i very first wish to make it clear that betterhelp only hires certified experts and they match people with a certified specialist in your own state due to the fact that in the u.s we have this function that the therapist requires to be accredited in the state where you live so what does it take to be licensed now obviously that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it takes to be accredited in connecticut where i live and after that inform you what else is required to be a better health therapist so to end up being certified you need an academic degree in one of a handful of areas so you could have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marital relationship and household therapy or professional therapy and then when you have your academic degree you require 3 000 hours of direct customer experience while you are being supervised by a specialist who holds the license you’re looking for and you need a minimum of a hundred hours of supervision with this person in which you discuss how you are supplying treatment to your clients so generally achieving this many medical 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 after that you sit for the written test and after that if you pass you get accredited 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 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 an academic degree a solid number of scientific hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been certified so there’s
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a popular video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is merely not real and the reason she calls them late therapists i want to talk about that briefly is she says one they don’t prescribe medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me deal with those 2 things due to the fact that in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not recommend medication unless you also occur to be an md or an lprn the only people in the united states who can recommend psychiatric medications or medical doctors could be your family doctor or a psychiatrist or a licensed professional nurse who’s had particular training in psychiatric medications so those are the only 2 types of people who can prescribe medication the huge 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 couple of psychiatrists also do treatment most psychiatrists focus 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 inform you in my own private practice i really tried to prevent handling court orders and i will share with you why the majority of the time what would happen is i would get a 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 trying to meet the requirement that they had actually received probably five or six months earlier now i understand that this takes place i actually do however 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 most court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood companies that can offer that kind of treatment in a more Jacksepticeye Betterhelp
effective manner so i just wished to attend to those two criticisms because i do not feel they’re valid so before i show you this little technique on the site for better help in regards to being able to find somebody in your own location that you resonate with i wish to say two things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is very crucial and the style of a therapist makes a big 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 enjoy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who’ve come to me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my office and they ‘d say my previous therapist not did anything however discuss herself well that’s not suitable so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community company 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 need to find somebody who’s an excellent suitable for you and actually one of the advantages i feel of the better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly change therapists so there’s some accountability because due to the fact that clearly if better help has a therapist and individuals are always switching far from that person they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s extremely difficult to find evaluations unless you get a personal recommendation to a private practice therapist so i do think that’s sort of an advantage of the better help platform that you can read evaluations you can write an evaluation you can offer feedback and you can switch therapists if you need to so before i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and select a therapist who resonates for you in your area but i do have a link listed below this video that provides 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 due to the fact that i get that concern a lot however i connected with them due to the fact that
people all over the country and in fact all over the world contact me frequently to say that they don’t have access to mental health services so better help supply service in 140 various countries 40 different languages i’m in positioning with their mission so there is a link listed below this video that will offer you 10 percent off your very first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com website you really don’t 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 choose baltimore maryland i don’t live there i don’t know any therapists there but i’m just going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can have a look and once again i do not understand 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 offered in your area prior to registering and then if you really liked this therapist or say here dr veronica wanza she specializes in tension anxiety lgbt relationship problems 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 then you can click the therapist who you like and go through the procedure to get this therapist so the majority of people signing up for better help go here what kind of treatment are you looking for so say it’s individual and then you select your gender and after that your age and you go through an entire series of