Are Betterhelp therapists certified? David Pakman Better Help… From the perspective that i am a certified psychotherapist and i had a private practice for 20 years helping people recuperate from anxiety and trauma and after that also from the point of view that i’ve utilized better help as a customer so today i’m going to talk about what it requires a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a much better health therapist i also wish to show you a bit of a technique on the better help site that allows you to 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 bit not quite hidden but sort of concealed on the site and i’m going to reveal you at the end and in between i also want to address some criticisms that i have actually become aware of better help therapists and i have actually listened to on youtube evaluation videos so let’s get going so i first want to make it clear that betterhelp only works with certified specialists and they match individuals with a certified expert in your own state since in the u.s we have this role that the therapist requires to be certified in the state where you live so what does it require certified now undoubtedly that differs a bit state by state however i’m going to stroll you through what it requires licensed 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 require a graduate degree in among a handful of locations so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in clinical social work or marriage and family therapy or expert therapy and after that once you have your graduate degree you need 3 000 hours of direct customer 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 guidance with this person in which you discuss how you are providing treatment to your clients so generally accomplishing this lots of clinical hours and this much supervision most likely averages around 3 or 4 years of experience to get the clinical hours to even then sit for the written exam and after that you sit for the written test and after that if you pass you get certified so that’s what’s needed to be certified as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you want to work for better help you need 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 an academic degree a solid variety of scientific hours and a minimum of three years of experience after they’ve been licensed so there’s
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a preferred video on youtube which criticizes better help therapists and calls them lay therapists which is merely not real and the factor she calls them late therapists i wish to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not recommend medication and two they do not handle court orders so let me attend to those two things since 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 people in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist or a licensed professional nurse who’s had specific training in psychiatric medications so those are the only two types of people who can prescribe medication the vast majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication because they do not hold those other degrees and where i live really 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 then the 2nd criticism that they don’t handle court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i actually tried to prevent handling court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would take place is i would get a call from somebody who would be in a panic asking to have 5 sessions in a week because they needed to go to court next week and they were attempting to meet the requirement that they had actually received probably five or 6 months ago now i comprehend that this occurs i actually do but that’s not actually therapy that’s in fact doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the type of work i ever did and most likely for most court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can offer that kind of therapy in a more David Pakman Better Help
effective way so i just wanted to attend to those 2 criticisms because i do not feel they stand so prior to i show you this little technique on the site for better help in terms of being able to find someone in your own area that you resonate with i wish to say two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is incredibly crucial 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 somebody who has a really expensive rate at a private practice and still not be happy 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 my office and they ‘d say my previous therapist not did anything but discuss herself well that’s not proper so if that occurs to you either with a private practice or a community company or on better help change therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright 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 someone who’s a great suitable for you and really among the benefits i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to quickly switch therapists so there’s some accountability because because undoubtedly if better help has a therapist and people are always switching far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to someone in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s really hard to find evaluations unless you get a personal 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 compose a review you can offer feedback and you can change therapists if you need 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 area but i do have a link listed below this video that supplies 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 take on psychotherapy clients just as an fyi since i get that concern a lot however i affiliated with them due to the fact that
people all over the nation and really all over the world contact me routinely to state that they do not have access to mental health services so better help offer service in 140 different countries 40 different languages i remain in positioning with their objective so there is a link below this video that will give you 10 percent off your first month so if you go to the betterhelp.com site you actually do not get the option up here to put your zip 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 select baltimore maryland i do not live there i do not know 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 again i don’t know these people 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 offered in your area prior to signing up and after that if you truly liked this therapist or state here dr veronica wanza she specializes in 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 procedure to make an application for this therapist so the majority of people signing up for better help go here what type of therapy are you trying to find so say it’s specific and after that you pick your gender and after that your age and you go through a whole series of questions and after that what issues you are coming into therapy for so this would be the method lots of people get better help and you complete the form and then they return to you with a therapist that they suggest or you can attempt the other route now undoubtedly with the other route you won’t know if that therapist has availability but it does permit you to truly evaluate for therapists the same way that you would on psychology today or any other therapy website so i believe that’s a really useful function on the betterhelp platform so then i put in connecticut simply to screen through what therapists are offered in my location of connecticut and i’m just going to click on this person here for a second joseph dickerson so once again it provides you his personal statement about his focus in counseling it informs you what his specializeds are what his medical methods are so this person works with cognitive behavior modification has 32 years of experience deals with the messaging the live chat the phone the video offers you his licensing number in connecticut and then you can click deal with me so comment below let me know if this video was handy for you let me know if you’ve 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 helpful to you if yes please do give 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 have a look i have a wide variety of videos on cognitive behavior modification emdr and general how to live a more cheerful life so i weave together mindfulness David Pakman Better Help