Are Betterhelp therapists qualified? Talkspace Aetna… From the viewpoint that i am a licensed psychotherapist and i had a private practice for twenty years assisting individuals recuperate from anxiety and trauma and after that likewise from the perspective that i have actually used better help as a customer so today i’m going to discuss what it takes to be a psychotherapist in the u.s and what it requires a better health therapist i also wish to show you a little bit of a technique on the better help site that enables you to look at who the therapists are in your location read their profiles and pick one that resonates with you so it’s something that’s a little bit not quite covert but type of concealed on the site and i’m going to show you at the end and in between i also wish to resolve some criticisms that i’ve heard of better help therapists and i’ve listened to on youtube review videos so let’s start so i very first wish to make it clear that betterhelp only hires licensed experts and they match individuals with a licensed professional in your own state since in the u.s we have this function that the therapist needs to be accredited in the state where you live so what does it take to be certified now certainly that varies a bit state by state but i’m going to stroll you through what it requires certified in connecticut where i live and then inform you what else is needed to be a much better health therapist so to become licensed you need a graduate degree in among a handful of areas so you might have a psychology phd or a master’s degree in scientific social work or marriage and family therapy or expert therapy and after that as soon as you have your academic degree you need 3 000 hours of direct client experience while you are being monitored by a professional 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 customers so normally achieving this many medical hours and this much guidance probably averages around three or four years of experience to get the medical hours to even then sit for the composed exam and after that you sit for the written examination and after that if you pass you get accredited so that’s what’s required to be licensed as a psychotherapist in connecticut and after that if you wish to work for better help you need a minimum of 3 years of experience after you’ve been accredited so you are absolutely 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’ve been accredited so there’s
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a preferred video on youtube which slams better help therapists and calls them lay counselors which is simply not real and the reason she calls them late counselors i want to talk about that briefly is she states one they do not recommend medication and two they don’t deal with court orders so let me resolve those 2 things since in the u.s as a psychotherapist you can not prescribe medication unless you likewise take place to be an md or an lprn the only individuals in the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical physicians 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 two kinds of people who can prescribe medication the large majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication since they do not hold those other degrees and where i live really really couple of psychiatrists likewise do treatment most psychiatrists focus on prescribing the medication and leave the treatment to the psychotherapists so that is not a valid criticism and then the second criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i truly attempted to prevent dealing with court orders and i will show you why most of the time what would happen is i would get a phone call from somebody who would remain in a panic asking to have five sessions in a week since they had to go to court next week and they were attempting to satisfy the requirement that they had received probably 5 or 6 months earlier now i comprehend that this occurs i actually do however that’s not really therapy that’s in fact doing something to please a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and most likely for the majority of court-ordered treatment there are neighborhood firms that can supply that type of treatment in a more Talkspace Aetna
effective way so i just wished to deal with those 2 criticisms due to the fact that i don’t feel they stand so prior to i share with you this little trick on the website for better help in regards to being able to find somebody in your own area that you resonate with i wish to say two things one is that the fit between you and a therapist is super crucial and the design of a therapist makes a big difference how comfy 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 be happy with the therapist right i have actually had clients who have actually come to me after seeing somebody in my location where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter into my workplace and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything but talk about herself well that’s not proper so if that takes place to you either with a private practice or a community company or on better help switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so definitely the quality of the therapist varies 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 better health platform is that you have this ability to quickly change therapists so there’s some responsibility in that due to the fact that clearly if better help has a therapist and people are constantly switching far from that individual they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you inform and then it’s very 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 an evaluation you can provide 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 pick a therapist who resonates for you in your area however 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 clients just as an fyi due to the fact that i get that question a lot but i connected with them due to the fact that
people all over the nation and in fact all over the world contact me frequently 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 alignment with their objective 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 really do not get the choice up here to put your zip code in and see what therapists are offered 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 pick baltimore maryland i do not live there i do not know any therapists there however i’m simply going to try it and you will get a whole host of therapists and you can take a look and once again i do not understand 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 readily available in your area prior to registering and after that if you really 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 describe what kind of work that they do and then you can click on the therapist who you like and go through the process to obtain this therapist so many people signing up for better help go here what type of treatment are you searching for so state it’s individual and then you choose your gender and after that your age and you go through an entire series of questions and after that what concerns you are entering therapy for so this would be the way many people look for better help and you submit the form and then they return to you with a therapist that they advise or you can try the other path now obviously with the other route you will not understand if that therapist has schedule but it does allow you to really 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 area of connecticut and i’m simply going to click this person here for a second joseph dickerson so again it provides you his individual statement about his focus in counseling it informs you what his specializeds are what his medical techniques 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 provides 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 have actually utilized a better help therapist and what you felt whether you felt they were well qualified 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 believe it may subscribe and benefit to my channel if you’re not subscribed if you are new to this channel take a look i have a wide variety of videos on cognitive behavioral therapy emdr and overall how to live a more happy life so i weave together mindfulness Talkspace Aetna