Challenges associated with distance counseling/Challenges in Teletherapy

challenges associated with distance counseling

Four Common Challenges in Teletherapy and How to Overcome Them

A teletherapy session is not the same as a session in the therapist’s office; however, this does not mean that we cannot provide quality mental health services. We can reach good results through teletherapy, and contemporary research is finding positive therapeutic outcomes of online mental health treatment (Dunstan & Tooth, 2012). What are the main obstacles that we should take into consideration and compensate for when we shift therapy to the screen? We can count four main difficulties:

1. Losing control of the setting;
2. The disembodied environment;
3. The question of presence; and
4. The Dialogue of the patient with technology and the digital world.