Email services have become near-universal across a wide range of industries and personal use purposes. Countless messages are exchanged between parties every day, but with this innovation comes great risk — cyber criminals target email communications with the goal of seizing, encrypting, and holding data hostage. Of the threats to email security, phishing is the… [Read More]
OTI Faculty News – Dr Jeanette Hennigan
I am immensely proud and excited to tell you about what our newest faculty member has achieved. Pictured here with her Academic Advisor Dr Stephen Goss (Director of Studies and Principal Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute) and Middlesex University Link tutor to Metanoia Dr David Westley. (drum roll…..) Dr Jeanette Hennigan, Specialist in online therapy… [Read More]
Can online counselling in school work?
BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2018. Read online at BACP (members only). Train to work online with Children and Young People at the Online Therapy Institute. Jeanette Hennigan moved from a position of unaware doubtfulness to providing a group-wide school online service that has added a much-needed dimension to counselling accessibility Since first training… [Read More]
Call for participants – video counselling
India Sunderland is looking for qualified relational counsellors who have used a form of videoconferencing (Skype, Face Time etc.) to facilitate a counselling session. She would require one hour of your time for a face-to-face interview focusing on your relational experience of using such technology. This, alongside other interviews and research, will inform a… [Read More]
Mediation in online therapy – reflections of applicability to the autistic population
As part of an assignment for the Online Therapy Institute’s Certified Cyber Therapist course, I have been thinking about the concept of “presence” in online therapy (Lombard & Ditton, 2006). What type of “presence” it is that most resonates with me, or that I would seek to try and create in my online therapeutic work?… [Read More]
The role and use of the Internet and related technologies for mental health intervention
Research Call! Dear Colleagues, I am George Agathokleous, a Counselling Psychologist in the final year of Doctoral training at the University of Wolverhampton, supervised by Dr Alison Attrill-Smith and Dr Lisa Orchard. My research interests revolve around the practical applications and use of Online Therapy. In particular I am exploring potential factors that could help… [Read More]
Understanding the Virtual Experience
Technology is becoming more accessible to individuals of all ages and is developing into an inseparable part of modern culture. While it makes many of our lives easier with its convenience it is also important to think about how it can help clients in a therapeutic sense. However, psychological therapy’s methods have not advanced nearly… [Read More]
Displacement and online therapy: is there a natural relationship? RESEARCH CALL
Today we are seeking your co-operation in an important new research project. Anastasia Piatakhina Giré is currently on a PhD journey at Middlesex University, London. Her research project is entitled “Displacement and online therapy: is there a natural relationship? Exploring the displaced individuals’ experience of online therapy.” Anastasia’s practice is dedicated to working with displaced… [Read More]