According to a recent Pew study, 80% of Internet users use the web to research health information. This is understandable: it’s both quicker and cheaper to do an online search than to schedule and make a medical visit. Unlike the wild west of the web twenty years ago, people can now find valid answers to… [Read More]
“Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway” Reflections on my Online Counselling Certificate Journey
I developed an interest in online counselling when working with adolescents who have a parent with cancer or whose parent died from cancer. The organization I was employed with had started an online counselling service for these young people across Australia. Despite an initial excitement for the opportunity to new creative endeavours in the way… [Read More]
An Ethical Framework for the Use of Technology in EAPs
EAPs require a separate ethical framework from other mental health related professional frameworks because of their unique involvement with the workplace at multiple levels. As described in the Employee Assistance Professionals Association’s (EAPA) Standards and Professional Guidelines, “Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) serve organizations and their employees in multiple ways, ranging from consultation at the strategic… [Read More]
How it has felt to try something new…Online Therapy Specialist Certificate
At the start of any course I have undertaken in the past, I become acutely aware of what I don’t know. This has certainly been the case with the on-line therapy course that I have recently started. Nearing the end of Unit One, I have in the process of completing the module been exposed to… [Read More]
Meeting of three colleagues across three continents? No problem!
DeeAnna and I were delighted to be contacted by Clinton Power, a relationship counsellor based in Sydney, Australia, to discuss him interviewing us about Therapy Without Borders: A Beginners Guide to Online Therapy for Australian counsellors and therapists thinking about introducing technology into their practice. Clinton told us “Many therapists in Australia are not offering… [Read More]
Online Therapy Specialist Certificate- Student Reflections
The Value of this Online Course: Online Therapy Specialist Certificate This is my first blog here and (of course) right now, I feel completely stumped for something eloquent and deeply meaningful to say! What is so very true for me right now is how completely impressed I am with the technology displayed and taught… [Read More]
Mark-eting yourself
An interesting consequence of conducting your professional work online is that you soon find yourself needing to adopt a domain name. Although an online counselor might choose something based on his or her name, like wendyjones.com or doctorsmith.com, many online counselors opt for a more creative approach and register domain names that incorporate “etherapy” terms… [Read More]
Archived Forum Discussions, 2009-2012: Online Therapy Institute
The following posts are archived from the Online Therapy Instituteopen discussion forum that is no longer accessible. Current open discussion is available at Linkedin and Facebook. Contents: ‘own space’ issue for clients in their own home Writing for TILT Magazine? Here’s a handy tool to help! Therapy in Second Life New Symposium on Developments in… [Read More]
