Online Supervision: Frequently Asked Questions
Thinking about some of the most frequently asked questions about online clinical supervision may help you to get the most out of your online supervision relationship.
Reviews and materials in our online mental health section address working via online modalities, whatever the underlying therapeutic approach, as well as the role of technology in mental health more broadly understood.
Thinking about some of the most frequently asked questions about online clinical supervision may help you to get the most out of your online supervision relationship.
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.
Are you undertaking online therapy training or seeking to augment your existing competence in the practice of online therapy or online counselling?
You’ve probably been told to check for a locked padlock icon in the corner of your browser window — and an ‘https:’ in your address bar — to be sure a web page is secure, right? Well, unfortunately, the received wisdom about providing your personal details on a ‘secure web form’ is just plain wrong…
Do you have a question for a licensed mental health professional, and you don’t have time to wait? Now you can put your questions to a counselor, therapist or psychologist and receive a personal reply online right now.
Drawing on an evidence base of over 700,000 words of email-based counselling and therapy, this exploration highlights 9 simple observations about the practice and process of online therapy. This paper is available here as a series of brief web pages, or separately as a single PDF download.
This mixed list includes just a few of the myriad counselling and psychotherapy resources available online which may be useful to clients, practitioners or researchers. Unlike some large directories that use automated systems to enable webmasters to submit their sites — which we’re then told will be ‘professionally reviewed’ (uh huh) — every site in our list has been personally visited and evaluated. What you read about a site is not what the site owner submitted on a form or a reciprocal link request: it’s my own personal assessment of the site.
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