Teletherapy
Effective and consistent therapy is possible amid these chaotic times.
Teletherapy may be one of the few silver-linings of the pandemic cloud.
One of the most noticeable benefits of teletherapy, aside from the evidence that it works as well as face-to-face counseling in terms of its effectiveness, allows for consistency.
During these trying times, the conversation routine with your therapist’s friendly face serves as a comforting constant week after week. This routine, even when not in person, is critically essential amidst the chaos of COVID.
Further, engaging in the active process of mental health care allows you to have a sense of control, at least for the one-hour visit, in which you are deciding to care for and work on yourself.
Teletherapy is convenient and private.
Most clients report that teletherapy visits make them feel safe and comfortable. Therapy allows the client to discuss their concerns and anxiety without other anxiety-inducing stressors, such as rearranging their schedules, securing childcare, traveling to the therapy office, etc.
Clients explain that they enjoy the relaxed comfort and convenience of teletherapy sessions from home while wearing their sweats or PJs with a teacup in hand.
Even for those clients who feel that they need to wear street clothes and leave the house to ensure privacy at their end, teletherapy provides the convenience of eliminating the need for a commute to the office.
The use of a HIPPA-compliant, secure platform ensures our online session’s privacy from any location with an Internet connection.
Teletherapy fosters connection, hope, and resiliency.
Since we are together in experiencing current real-time events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the teletherapy connection serves as a mirror in which we can see first-hand, face-to-face that we all share similar fears, concerns, and anxieties.
At your teletherapy appointments, you will see your therapist cope in real-time with an experience like the one you’re going through. We are navigating similar struggles while continuing with routines, relationships, and responsibilities – and with equanimity, we enhance our client/therapist connection and our sense of belonging with others in the collective boat.
It also offers increased hope by allowing us to experience communal resiliency.
Teletherapy normalizes mental health self-care and helps care for others.
In some ways, teletherapy has de-stigmatized mental health services because it has become common and widespread during this time.
You are invited to use teletherapy for yourself. Still, you can also support a friend or loved one struggling with a difficult life situation by referring them for teletherapy services.
It may not occur to those not familiar with mental health care that teletherapy is an option. Many people know very little about the realities of therapy, much less teletherapy. They may not even realize that online counseling is an option.
Mental health is often stigmatized, only associated with very extreme cases or the “craziness” seen in movies. Still, everyone needs to care for their mental health, especially during these extremely stressful times.
Teletherapy allows you to tune-up and keep moving.
Taking our car to the mechanic when it’s broken or for routine maintenance ensures that everything runs smoothly and safely. Similarly, preventative mental health self-care is beneficial in avoiding severe mental health conditions.
It can also help improve our relationships and our ability to cope and enhance our ability to experience a wonderful quality of life, even amid trying times.
When high functioning friends or family members disclose to others they use teletherapy, whether for routine maintenance or to deal with an incredibly tricky time or issue, it signals that this therapy is helpful for all kinds of problems. Loved ones then realize that preventative mental health self-care is okay, common, and provides another way to cultivate hope and resiliency during these challenging times.
Teletherapy sessions are available!
You can make a teletherapy session part of your self-care and resiliency routine. Perhaps you also can invite others you care for to a teletherapy session, too.
These sessions provide an effective and convenient way to receive self-care and foster hope and resiliency.
Call (805) 712-1646 now for a free initial consultation.
