Lyle Labardee offers a great overview of where the field of online counseling is today. This article was published in the Summer issue of EAP Digest. The full article is available here: Online Counseling Crosses the Chasm Kate and DeeAnna were interviewed for the article as well as several of our colleagues. The Online Therapy… [Read More]
Science Notes: I Am My Avatar
Science Notes is written and illustrated by the students in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Kate and DeeAnna were interviewed for a podcast by Kayvon Sharghi, student and Science Journalist. The podcast is now available along with a very interesting accompanying article, I Am My Avatar. The podcast by… [Read More]
Proposed Health Care Bill Includes Telehealth Advisory Committee
The proposed U.S. health care bill would enact a Telehealth Advisory Committee. While I am not writing to debate the current merits of the health care bill in general, I find this particular component potentially valuable in promoting online therapy. The committee would consist of physicians and non-physician health care professionals so we need someone… [Read More]
Avatar Therapy Musings
Avatar Therapy is not new.The term has been discussed theoretically for nearly ten years. But now that virtualworlds have reached the mainstream and with the advent of gaming, many people understand the provocative power that exists with an avatar identity. People now live part of their lives virtually, sometimes existing in a mixed reality. Since… [Read More]
How Professionals Can Promote Online Therapy
Yesterday I completed facilitation of a two-day Distance Credentialed Counselor training in Springfield, IL. Every time I do a training I meet great people and I learn. In this training there was much concern expressed about therapists being able to cross state lines; how to know what each state’s law says, and whether there is… [Read More]
Lisa Kudrow’s comedy on Web Therapy
Lisa Kudrow stars as a therapist with limited patience for other peoples’ problems in this original improvised web series… I love her deadpan practical skills in sending files mid-session! While we can’t ethically use Lisa’s wonderful therapeutic skills as demo in our trainings, we do appreciate the comic relief!!! . See a clip here: http://www.nhatky.in/lisa-kudrow-web-therapy-online-12338961 –… [Read More]
Top Ten Mental Health Tweeps from PsychCentral
Great article from PsychCentral which puts DeeAnna and OTI at the forefront of Twitter for Mental Health!! 7. @therapyonline “A wide lens is cast at the Online Therapy Institute ranging from email and chat to videoconferencing and Second Life.” DeeAnna Merz Nagel maintains this popular account with a focus that’s business-to-business for professionals who… [Read More]
American Counseling Association Launches a Blog!
The American Counseling Association has launched a blog that will offer posts of interest to people in the counseling profession. ACA bloggers: Paul Fornell has been a clinical counselor, a professor, a career counselor, and is currently ACA’s Director of Ethics and Professional Standards Jessica Diaz is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland… [Read More]