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Teletherapy

With Online Therapy, also known as Teletherapy, a therapist provides psychological counseling and support over the Internet through email, video conferencing, online chat, or a phone call. Teletherapy may be useful to individuals who cannot leave their homes, who work unconventional hours, as well as those overseas or who live in rural or remote areas.

Benefits of Therapy

Participation in therapy can result in a number of benefits to you, including increased insight into your patterns of feeling, thinking, behaving and relating to others; improvement in your relationships; solutions to specific problems you bring forward in therapy; and improvement in symptoms of distress.

Benefits to therapy require openness on the part of the therapy client. When information about your feelings, thoughts, behaviors, relationships, or other difficulties are withheld, it is not possible for the therapist to help you with them or to help you understand how they may be related (or not) to the issue for which you are seeking treatment. Benefits also require consistent attendance in therapy and work both in and outside of therapy sessions.

Strengths and Limitations of Telemental Health

Telephone, chat, and video sessions have some advantages over in-person psychotherapy. Many of clients share that it is more convenient (no commute) and more comfortable (in their own space). Some clients share that they feel more able to share “deep” things because it is online rather than in person.

Online therapy is not for everyone. If a client has a poor internet connection, a lack of privacy, or otherwise would simply be more comfortable meeting in person, it is better to connect them with a provider who offers that service. It is important to consider if this applies to you and may impact your therapeutic progress and select an in-person provider if so. In some clinical situations, such as crises or suicidal or homicidal thoughts, in-person treatment may be the most appropriate treatment choice.

Innovative Counseling Group generally offers both in-person on online outpatient services. During this pandemic teletherapy is the primary service offered. Please contact us to discuss the most suitable options for you.