Everything you ever wanted to know about e-therapy, but had the good sense not to ask. This section explores how face to face psychotherapy and online e-therapy are meaningfully different. If you wish, you may impetuously skip this section and go directly to the preparation and launch of your first e-therapy email.

What is e-therapy?

Good question! Simply put, using the internet for therapeutic interactions is called e-therapy. Ah, but there's more to the story...

Most online therapists agree that the internet offers exciting new ways to deliver therapeutic services. Beyond that, opinions about what e-therapy is, or should be, tend to diverge like the Sahara Desert tends to be sandy. One major schism erupts over the very essence of e-therapy: is e-therapy the same as face to face psychotherapy... only different? Against all reason, some tragically misguided therapists seem to think so. They apparently think they can, and should, port traditional psychotherapy -- lock, stock and barrel -- into cyberspace. Good luck with that. More highly-evolved therapists, such as myself, realize that text-based distance therapy offers a different kind of therapeutic interaction with its own set of features.

And that's just one of many issues being debated. It's all part of making sense of this unsettled territory we call cyberspace. Emerging from the chaos and confusion, one reality is becoming increasingly clear: for those with a pioneering spirit, this new realm has a great deal to offer.

And we've saved a place for you...

Would you like to join us?

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