BENEFITS OF VIRTUAL WORK

BENEFITS OF TELETHERAPY:

It reaches people that brick and mortars can’t: Throughout my career I’ve found that one of the most frustrating things I have to deal with, as a provider, is lack of accessibility. On the client side of things, I’m sure the frustration is minimally double mine. Finding a provider that you connect with is a challenge all by itself, and then finding one that has fair prices, takes your insurance, has hours that work around your schedule, and is geographically close enough to not incur a whole day event is something else entirely. Virtual practice opens the doors for incredibly busy individuals, or those that live in rural or marginally served areas to have access to the provider of their choosing, from the comfort of their home, and to interview multiple with minimal commitment. That leads me to my second point:

It lets you shop around: Almost the entirety of positive feedback from healing work comes from the development of a positive, healthy relationship with your provider. It is no secret that providers are humans just like anyone else, and on a frank note, some are just terrible. Traditional therapy has a lengthy intake process with pages of paperwork, and then a diagnostic interview that feels more like a job interview than building a relationship with someone who has requested enough information on you to fit in well at a family wedding. Virtual works often provides the opportunity for 15 minute consultations (to schedule, see my contact page) to simply get to know the provider and see if it feels like a good match. Then if its not, clients can move on to the next one pretty quickly. There is less investment in finding a good provider so that clients can put their energy where it counts- working with the right provider. 

A more readily absorbed power differential: Over the last ten or so years that I’ve been doing healing work full time, my clients almost always comment on how nervous they are at their first session, and how overwhelming they anticipate it will be to have an “expert study them.” Generally, they are pleasantly surprised at how casual healing feels and typically describe it as “having coffee with a good friend, who knows nobody.” Virtual work lends itself to that because healing can look like a simple phone call, or video chat, and there are often messaging capabilities that ensure you can reach out to your provider at any time with questions or concerns you may have. With this service, the anxiety about what to talk about during healing work is reduced dramatically. We are often, for better or worse, most comfortable on our cell phones, and virtual practice works with that, rather than against it.