Peer Consultation Forum for Online Therapy Institute’s Clinical Members
If you are already an OTI member login to the Forum here.
- The Online Therapy Institute offers a secure and encrypted Forum to Clinical Members who have joined OTI.
- The Forum offers a place to engage in case consultation and peer supervision.
- The Forum offers an encrypted chat feature for members.
- The Forum offers opportunitiess to discuss both face-to-face and online client cases.
- For practitioners new to delivery of online therapy, this Forum offers a way to discuss cases with colleagues.
- DeeAnna Merz Nagel and Kate Anthony participate in the Forum.
Confidentiality
We understand the helping professional’s need to discuss case consultation within a secure environment. We also promote best practice in the field of counseling and supervision. Providing the best standard of care to our clients means taking extra precautions like encryption even when staffing cases that remove names and locations.
Links can be copied and pasted from most standard discussion boards and forums leaving practitioners and their clients vulnerable. Our forum requests a login should a link be pasted elsewhere outside the forum. No one will be able to see the information. The forum is hosted using a Secure Socket Layer just as when credit card information is taken for payment of products and services online. Practitioners are expected to “blind” the case, removing all identifiable information. This step along with the encryption and security of the Forum aids in maintaining a high level of confidentiality.
Please note: The OTI Social Network offers additional forum discussions that are not confidential.