Have you ever heard of online counseling? It is hard to believe how different the world is today. People can do just about anything they want online, and that now includes therapy. When I first heard of online therapy, I was understandably skeptical. But after I spent some time researching it, I found an overwhelming number of positives about it::

Online therapy allows you to meet with a professional counselor from the comfort of your own home. Seeing a therapist in person can be quite an unpleasant experience, and leads people to not share what they are really feeling. Being able to talk to someone without having to leave the house certainly is nice.

Online counseling has a great deal of flexibility. Since you aren’t meeting in an actual office, and the therapist is talking to you from their home too, so it is not unusual to book an appointment for 11pm at night, if that’s what suits you best.

Online therapy is usually less expensive than traditional therapy. In fact it is significantly cheaper. In person counseling can be as much as $150 an hour!

People tend to open up more quickly when meeting online. This seems to do with it being such a more comfortable setting. You have to kee in mind that many people seeking therapy are shy, and not having to look at the person while you talk can be of great benefit.

Online therapy is very well documented. If you are engaging in chat or email therapy, the entire session can be saved as a text file, and reviewed whenever you like. This means that at the end of each session, you will have a written transcript containing every single word shared in the session!

There is often concern that online therapists are not professional, and that certainly is not the case. It is not hard to find a professional licensed therapist who has their own actual office, but also sees people online because of the convenience it creates for them as well.

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