In our therapy section, you can learn about the process of therapy and counselling, find out how different types of psychotherapy are supposed to work, and even try secure online therapy. If you’re a therapist interested in online therapy, a separate section also includes more in-depth material on the practice and process of online therapy. Update: We’ve also recently added new information about synchronous online services if you’re interested in real-time chat with a counsellor or therapist.
You or someone you know may be seeking counselling or psychotherapy for a wide variety of reasons. This section offers some background information about the why, the how, the what, the who, and more — all designed to help make the process easier.
Online therapy or counselling can provide a safe and supportive environment in which you can focus on your own life and on what matters to you, working at your own pace and — in the case of email-based online counselling — with more time to reflect.
Our self-help articles on topics like relationship problems, understanding depression, and personality disorders offer background information that might help you decide what to do next. Also see our new relationship quiz to help distinguish true love from true loser.
Modern counselling and psychotherapy provide clients with a wide range of options for addressing many different kinds of psychological distress. This section provides some background on a few of the different types of counselling and psychotherapy available today, a brief summary of the history of the area, and some notes on empirical research about the effectiveness of different types of counselling. Of course there are many more types of counselling and therapy than we’ve been able to address here so far!
