In the united states who can prescribe psychiatric medications or medical physicians could be your general practitioner or a psychiatrist Betterhelp Video Chat
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 huge majority of psychotherapists do not prescribe medication because they do not hold those other degrees and where i live extremely very few 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 after that the second criticism that they don’t deal with court orders i will tell you in my own private practice i really attempted to avoid dealing with court orders and i will show you why the majority of the time what would take place is i would get a call from someone 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 most likely 5 or six months earlier now i comprehend that this happens i truly do but that’s not in fact treatment that’s really doing something to satisfy a court order and it’s not the kind of work i ever did and probably for many court-ordered therapy there are community agencies that can offer that kind of therapy in a more effective manner so i simply wanted to resolve those 2 criticisms because i do not feel they stand so prior to i show you this little technique on the website for better help in terms of being able to discover somebody in your own location that you resonate with i want to state two things one is that the fit in between you and a therapist is extremely essential and the design of a therapist makes a big distinction how comfy you feel with them how safe you feel with them and you could go to someone who has a very expensive rate at a private practice and still not be happy with the therapist right i’ve had customers who’ve pertained to me after seeing somebody in my area where they were paying a high private practice rate and they enter my workplace and they ‘d say my prior therapist not did anything however discuss herself well that’s not suitable so if that happens to you either with a private practice or a neighborhood agency or on better help switch therapists and if a therapist ever does something outright you can report it to the state licensing board so absolutely the quality of the therapist differs no matter what their training or background and you have to discover somebody who’s an excellent fit for you and actually among the
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advantages i feel of the much better health platform is that you have this capability to easily change therapists so there’s some responsibility because since obviously if better help has a therapist and people are always switching away from that person they get that feedback right if you go to somebody in a private practice what do you tell and then it’s very hard to find evaluations unless you get an individual 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 a review you can offer feedback and you can change therapists if you need to so before i share with you how you can go onto the betterhelp platform and pick a therapist who resonates for you in your location however i do have a link below this video that offers 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 customers just as an fyi since i get that question a lot however i associated with them due to the fact that individuals all over the country and really all over the world contact me routinely to say that they don’t have access to psychological health services so better help provide service in 140 different nations 40 different languages i remain in positioning 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 website you truly 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 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