How does online psychotherapy work?

The investigations that have been carried out on the online psychology have demonstrated an effectiveness of the treatments at least equal to the results presented by psychotherapies carried out in a manner face-to-face.

We know that for psychotherapy to be effective, an adequate relationship between the psychologist and the person requesting their services is absolutely essential. This patient-psychologist interaction, thanks to advances in communication, it can be produced not only in person but also remotely.

It is clear that the most important elements in effective communication are the verbalizations (what we say and hear) and the visual information (what we see) that we receive. The use of videoconferencing as a way or way of doing psychotherapy is useful.

After what has been said above, we can assert that online psychology is a suitable means of communication between psychologist and patient, since it provides us with the necessary verbal and visual interaction. Let's take a closer look at how online psychology can help patients.

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What is a video conference?

A videoconference is the communication that is done simultaneously and bidirectionally in a virtual environment, with visual and auditory information, between individuals who are in different places. What's more, offers the possibility of having different digital tools; how to send videos, images, files, audios, links, etc.

What is fundamental about videoconferencing is the possibility it offers you to an accessibility to an ideal communication, since they allow you to send and receive both visual and sound information between different sites. This creates the possibility that the patient can avoid the expenses and loss of time that the transfer to the psychologist's office implies.

These advantages that I just mentioned have made online psychotherapy the fastest growing area in psychologists' therapies. Thus, in our consultation we can verify that between 40% and 50% of our psychotherapeutic work is currently online.

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What does videoconferencing contribute to online psychology?

With what has been said above, you will understand that online psychology by videoconference has become one of the fundamental tools for the professional development of the psychologist.

You have to know that for a psychotherapy session what is fundamentally needed is the communication between the therapist and the patient. To be effective, this interaction must take place in a leisurely, calm, smooth way, in a warm climate, of security and trust. If the psychologist and his patient succeed, the therapy will be completely similar to face-to-face psychotherapy.

How Online Psychotherapy Works

Online psychotherapy consists of offering you psychotherapeutic tools so that you can achieve psychological improvement, with the particularity that said tools We will send them to you online, from the Internet. So that you understand me more clearly, we will facilitate the psychological therapy that we offer in the face-to-face consultation, with The difference is that the way you interact with your psychologist is not in person, but by video conferencing.

In online psychology there are many tools that can help us: email, telephone, chat, videoconference... but if there is an element that gathers all the properties in one: the video conferencing. Having the possibility of digital communication over the internet allows us to carry out the therapy in a way that psychologist and patient they can interact by seeing, hearing, speaking, writing to each other, sharing documents and images, etc.

Today we can say that videoconferencing is a very important way to bring people closer together. It is being used, for work reasons to connect with other colleagues, in work meetings, when the people are expatriates and / or away from their families and friends, it is used by those who have their partner in a place distant. And of course, how could it be otherwise, it will serve us in the field of online psychology, so that psychologist and patient can carry out psychotherapy sessions.

How does the email orientation consultation work?

This modality is for those people who have the need to have the professional opinion of a psychologist about something that worries them or about a specific problem. If it is not attended to in this way, it is most likely that the consultation would not be made.

What is offered is evaluate and answer the questions that the person sends in a totally individualized way. What must be clear is that the answer is one of counseling and does not in itself involve a psychotherapeutic treatment.

With online psychology you can access the best psychologists from anywhere in the world, directly and without waiting or unnecessary travel, through consultation and psychotherapy on-line.