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 insist, you may impetuously skip this section and proceed willy-nilly 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 if we dig a little deeper, we discover that there's so much more to this 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 rather like the Sahara 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? 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 distinctive set of features.
And that's just one of many issues being debated — as they should be. It's all part of discovering how to best use the Internet to make life better. Emerging from all the clamor 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...
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