What exactly is online counselling all about? What I do has been called various names, including online therapy, email therapy, virtual therapy, and cyber-counselling. But, frankly, no matter what it is called, it is a powerful therapeutic tool that has the potential for helping people gain insight into and then resolve problems that interfere with the quality of their lives. I currently use email exchanges or online voice chat in my therapy work. Online counselling has a “liberating” or “disinhibiting” effect, in general. We feel less inhibited when we write to someone who is a bit “anonymous”, so we feel safer and are therefore less likely to censor our thoughts. Writing about our thoughts and feelings freely, without censorship, allows us to get to the root of our problems relatively quickly when compared to traditional face-to-face psychotherapy.
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