Online Therapy
It was just too much for her.
Susan* was in her first year of medical residency, and it wasn’t as hard as everyone had told her. It was way more challenging. She got home late most nights, getting just enough sleep to wake up and be moderately functional.
She had always been smart and could manage the intellectual side of being a doctor, but no one told her about the emotional toll…
Telling a family that a loved one wouldn’t recover.
Seeing the life drain out of a patient in the ICU.
Doing everything to save a patient, only to fail.
She tried seeing a counselor at the medical school…
But he seemed distracted. As much as Susan hated to admit it, he just wasn’t a very good counselor.
She did find a counselor that she was excited about seeing that had an office across town. But, as she was walking to her car, her pager went off, and she hustled back to the hospital to handle another in an endless chain of crises.
She choked back her hot angry tears once again, not getting the help she needed from a therapist.
Sometimes, life doesn’t allow for therapy appointments across town.
Does Susan’s story sound like yours?
Maybe you live far too far away from excellent therapists. Or your schedule is too jam-packed to make it to your therapist’s office.
Your zip code or schedule shouldn’t determine whether you can get great mental health care.
We provide convenient online counseling that fits into your life.
There aren’t any complicated programs to download or confusing menus to navigate.
You’ll get an email before your session that gives you a link to click. All you need is a device with Internet and a webcam, and, with one click, you’re connected to a video session with your therapist.
We make online counseling simple, and you don’t have to fret about parking, finding the therapist’s office, or any of the stressful things that go along with a first appointment.
What’s more, you get quality help to manage your life’s difficulties with a down-to-earth professional that will give you practical guidance.
“But isn’t it better to see a therapist in person?”
Does therapy over the web even work?
At Dallas Psychotherapy, our clinicians were doing online counseling before it was cool. After countless online sessions, we’ve found them to be just as effective (if not more effective) than in-person counseling. Counseling can be uncomfortable, but online counseling allows you to engage in therapy while giving you the comfort of your own home, making it that much easier.
One of the other significant issues that might be a challenge for some clients is this question, “Am I really going to get the same experience? Or is it going to be like those awkward video conference meetings for work?”
One of the key skills for online counseling is for the therapist to be “real” in video sessions. Some therapists struggle with this because they don’t like technology, and they’re convinced that nothing can substitute for sitting on a couch across from a client.
But at Dallas Psychotherapy, we’ve learned the tricks to really hone in on the relationship. It’s not just another video call like at work, and we know how to connect to create a real relationship.
What’s more, there are a lot of benefits to online therapy. We can use our screen-sharing capabilities to help visual learners with pictures, whiteboards, and documents to support the therapeutic process. If you need extra resources, the counselor can share them right then in the session instead of promising to get back to you and always forgetting.
A mentor of mine once said, “The beauty of life is that while you can’t always choose what you do, you can choose how you do it.” So when you participate in online counseling, you can choose how. You can choose to do therapy in your favorite hoodie, drinking a cup of your favorite tea, or with your pet curled up on your lap.
Now you can get help on your terms.
You might be thinking to yourself, “Is this some kind of gimmick? Is it going to be some sort of canned therapy where everyone gets the same thing?”
To answer those fundamental questions, we say this: We are classically trained therapists who have accepted the call to adapt to the times.
We are no longer in Victorian England, where a telephone call is an extravagance and technological marvel. We have rich experience doing online therapy, and we see it as a natural evolution of treatment and technology, not just a gimmick. It’s not canned or rehearsed, you get the same quality that you would by coming into an office, and you get it with therapists who are equally well-versed with in-person and online counseling.
Don’t let your life’s circumstances be the barrier to getting the help you deserve!
Contact us today for your free 15-minute phone consultation to see if online counseling is right for you: (469) 225-0344 or Book Online.
*Name changed to preserve client confidentiality.