On behalf of all of us at CounsellingResource.com, I’d like to extend the warmest welcome to our two newest contributors to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ column, Dr Cynthia Giocomarra and Dr Alisa Robinson.

Watch what you say: it’s not just your friends listening, it’s the Feds. Are you sure all your Facebook friends are who you think they are?

Here’s a quick update on our suggestions for building a site featuring your private practice, including a promo code for popular outsourcing service TherapySites.com.

Have you always suspected it? Just one diagram explains it all: social networking as the intersection of narcissism, ADHD, and good old fashioned stalking.

Online therapy is a rapidly growing field, and research is barely keeping up with it. What actually happens in a session, and what specific behaviours might be consistently helpful?

It’s the same therapeutic process, whether we are in the same room or not. As far as I am concerned, online therapy is definitely the “real thing”.

Thank you for bearing with us during a few technical hitches we experienced last week. One of our stories wound up on the front page of a popular social bookmarking site, and with tens of thousands of additional visitors arriving by the hour, our systems had a tough time keeping up.