{"id":122,"date":"2011-04-01T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:29:56","slug":"but-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/but-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"But Does It Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/my-computer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-130\" title=\"my-computer\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/my-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Hello and welcome to my virtual office. \u00a0If I could, I&#8217;d be stretching out my hand to offer you a warm handshake and I&#8217;d give you my most welcoming smile and saying &#8211; \u201cPlease come on in and have a seat.\u00a0 If you were actually entering my office you would see that I have chairs set up for us.\u00a0 The aim here is to create a sense that we are in the same room together [as much as is possible in this virtual space!].\u00a0 I invite you to make yourself comfortable and take your time reading my blog post.<\/p>\n<p>This gives you a fairly typical example of how I start my online counselling sessions.\u00a0 I wanted to give you a little taste of what it\u2019s like as we begin an ongoing conversation about online counselling.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you Google the words \u201conline counselling\u201d you will get over 3 million hits!\u00a0 If you limit your search to \u2018pages from Canada\u2019 \u2013 you get just over 130,000.\u00a0\u00a0 Now if you were to also search for ecounselling, cybercounselling, distance counselling, virtual counselling, web counselling, etherapy, online therapy, cybertherapy, web therapy, virtual therapy (I could go on but you get the idea!) you start to get a sense of just how ubiquitous this modality of counselling has become.\u00a0 Indeed, almost all of Canada\u2019s Employee Assistance Programs offer Online Counselling as part of their service packages.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different platforms you can use to do online counselling (email, chat, skype, online groups, discussion forums) and you can choose to do counselling in real time or asynchronously [more on all of this and what it means as we go along].<\/p>\n<p>How long has it been in use?\u00a0 Therapy Online started delivering services to clients via email in 1995.\u00a0 I personally have been working as an online counsellor for almost six years and it has been a fascinating journey [reflecting on all that I have learned in that time].<\/p>\n<p>The biggest question I had at the beginning was \u201cCan you actually DO counselling online? Does it work?\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s a question I hear from a lot of counsellors\u2026well, actually, it\u2019s something I hear from almost anyone I talk to about the subject.\u00a0 You say the words \u201cI do counselling online\u201d and there\u2019s a pause as they think about how to respond.\u00a0 Then they say, \u201cUmmm, how does that work?\u201d in a puzzled tone.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand the puzzlement. Typically, when people think about counselling, personal, face-to-face connections come to mind.\u00a0 When we picture someone going to counselling we usually think of an office, a private space, someone who will listen and give immediate feedback. 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