Posts Tagged ‘in practice’

How long does it take to complete one million words of online counselling and online therapy? If you’re Managing Editor Greg Mulhauser, it apparently takes a little less than 3 years. A few weeks ago, the total volume of counselling emails between Mulhauser and his clients surpassed one million words — apparently making Mulhauser the first online practitioner in the history of the field to document this volume of individual online therapeutic work.

This year, we marked the summer solstice with a direct lightning strike on the data centre which houses our server. Fortunately, all data stayed safe, but network connectivity was absent for about an hour and remained dicey for a few hours after that. So, if you happen to have tried getting in touch with us on the 21st of June, and received an error or an email bounce, that will be why. And if you haven’t been doing it regularly yet, we highly recommend our articles on the importance of backups, backups, backups!

Following our popular articles on creating a backup strategy for your private practice, we review two leading contenders for the external backup drive of choice. Although the LaCie and Maxtor drives we tested were very similar in some respects, important differences in speed and in bundled software mean the two are most appropriate for different groups of users.

After more than 3 months of more interest from new clients than I could reliably offer services to, our online therapy and online counselling service is again able to accept new clients without a waiting list. Up until now, using our counselling service meant waiting a few days or even a few weeks for space in my practice to become available, but now all new clients will once again be registered immediately, without a wait.

When some British doctors see a patient with mild to moderate depression or anxiety, they pull out their pads and prescribe a self-help book. Under a new program in more than a dozen counties across the United Kingdom, patients take the prescription to their local library, where they check out reserved titles such as “Overcoming Depression” and “The Feeling Good Handbook”.