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]
Therapy’s Digital Future
I recently had the privilege of presenting at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and what a great experience I had! My presentation was on Sunday and I arrived on Friday so I had a couple of days to meet and greet! I saw old friends and made new. I was thrilled to see Melanie LaDue… [Read More]
The Heart of Online Therapy Training
Part rant Mostly celebration Rant. I am a member of a dozen or so Linkedin Groups and I am following many online practitioners on Twitter. I read blog posts and news articles and receive countless newsletters, conference announcements and questions in my inbox- all related to online therapy. That is to be expected since “online… [Read More]
BACP Coaching Division Networking Event NOT Scuppered by the Weather!
This weekend, in a moment of near perfect irony, I travelled from Scotland (far north of the UK) to Brighton (far south of the UK) – a journey of well over 1000 miles – to give an online webinar. I had been invited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Coaching Division to present… [Read More]
Workpace Counselling: A Look to the Future
Kate Anthony was interviewed recently for the Counselling at Work Journal. Counselling at Work (CaW) is the quarterly journal of the BACP Workplace division. The journal speaks to workplace counselling as well as Employee Assistance settings. The article entitled Into the Future explores what the workplace will look like in years to come and what the… [Read More]
“Call of Duty” and the Newtown Shooting: Anatomy of Circumstantial Evidence
The front pages of the internet now state that Adam Lanza, the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary, had Asperger Syndrome and was a gamer, not an unlikely or necessarily bad combination, unless the video games were of a violent nature. The most recent speculation suggests the gunman was heavily involved in violent gaming, particularly the… [Read More]
Enhancing Mental Health by Understanding Cyberculture
We reflect about our work on World Mental Health Day, October 10, 2012. As trainers of counsellors, therapists and other mental health workers in the use of technology for treating mental health issues, we hear a range of experiences from our students about how new media and social networking impacts on the lives of their… [Read More]
Encryption, audio, video, text, client records…oh my!
We were asked by a student recently, If telephone counselling exists pre-internet – does any of the jurisdiction/ethical stuff (encryption etc) apply? There are two issues- How easy it is to intercept a live “call” whether audio or video How any recorded information such as chat transcripts or text is stored . The… [Read More]
