After over a dozen years using technology as a tool to assist the counseling process, I am finally seeing the signs that e-therapy (also referred to as online therapy, distance counseling, telemental health, telepsychology and a host of other terms) may become part of mainstream mental health and wellness delivery! Could it be? I see… [Read More]
Virtual Ability as Virtual Community
Virtual Ability is a community of support for people with many kinds of chronic illnesses and disabilities. It resides in the virtual world Second Life. Its function in the virtual world is supported by a nonprofit corporation, Virtual Ability, Inc. Geographic communities and communities of interest have been widely studied from many perspectives, including social,… [Read More]
Using Twitter to Market Your Practice
I often get asked how to use social media to market a mental health practice. Currently, there are many options to market a practice, and my preferred social media platform is Twitter. Why Twitter? Twitter is simple and easy to use. It’s free and can be a powerful community builder. Twitter also does not require… [Read More]
Spring Edition 2013: News from the Cyberstreet at Online Therapy Institute/Online Coach Institute!
NEWS FROM THE TRAINING ROOM! We have launched a new list of Specialist Certificate Tracks- areas of specialty or concentration! Why? Because people have asked us for our core training tailored to a specific audience, so we took the most requested topics and a few of our personal favorites and created new offerings! Each Track consists of… [Read More]
TILT Magazine Issue 14
HOT TOPICS: Online Therapy and Patient Engagement Unlocking the Client’s Internal Dialogue with Virtual Worlds Social Skills Groups in the Virtual World Skype & HIPAA: The Vexing Question News from the CyberStreet Research Review Guilt-Free Pleasures Reel Culture Student Spotlight CyberSupervision New Innovations: How to Start Using Apps in Therapy and Coaching Marketing Toolbox: 3… [Read More]
Login2Life: Expanding the Cyberculture POV
Login2Life is a documentary that reviews various uses of Second Life and World of Warcraft from a positive lens and captures the essence of online community and real relationships in cyberspace. As the news across the globe is filled with the negative consequences of gaming and technology, and as the helping professions debate about how… [Read More]
Virtual Therapy vs. Professional Obligations
Millions of people participate in virtual world environments, for a wide range of reasons. For these people, virtual worlds are immersive and engaging, and enable them to have experiences that would be difficult or even impossible outside of a virtual world. Therapists are among those who are exploring virtual worlds as a treatment modality, and… [Read More]
How and Why to Build a Website for Your Therapy Practice
“Location, location, location.” –William Dillard, founder of Dillard’s Until the Internet, thousands of years of commerce happened locally. That placed a premium on good locations that were affordable and well-trafficked. Otherwise high-quality stores would perish when customers were far away. The Internet has dramatically changed this; competitors can now be just clicks apart. The Internet… [Read More]
