Online Therapy » Private Chat
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Coming soon! What is online therapy by email?Email online therapy is of great benefit to people whose typing skills are slow. Chat online therapy is speedy, but online therapy via email allows clients to go at their own pace. Without the discipline of a typical 50 minute therapy session, which is standard for both online synchronous therapy and face-to-face therapy, people have plenty of time to write their therapy email in a reflective and thoughtful way. There's less of an on the spot feel than in face-to-face therapy, and for some folks removing this pressure is an added advantage. For people who enjoy writing and expressing themselves in the written form, there's an extra familiarity that comes from writing. Conversely, for some people the emails provide the distance that they need to feel comfortable and safe. They have control over how much or how little intimacy is fashioned and feel that they have more control over the session via email. In a typical and traditional face-to-face therapy session, the therapist answers a client's question or responds to a concern and then the words effectively vanish. In contrast to this, people are able to retain their connection to the therapist via the written word in email therapy. Communications via email can be read again and again, allowing the online client time to absorb what the therapist has to say in their own time. The speed of therapy via email is slower. Another benefit of online therapy via email is the absence of structure. There is no need to schedule sessions and client and therapist can write and respond at their own pace. |
