This course is designed for those practitioners who already offer – or who need to move – their therapy or coaching practices online. It offers practical insights and technological guidance to enhance your interpersonal connections with your patients, while optimizing their online therapy experience with you. This course caters for those working online with individuals and with groups.
You can look forward to a few simple tools and meaningful insights from three highly experienced online practitioners:
- How to establish a relationship of trust with a client who is not physically there. How to welcome a new client that you have not previously met in physical space. What to keep in mind when setting up your online therapy room. The difference between cyberspace and physical space when it comes to being together. How to encourage online communication.
- Online therapy and intimacy: a psychoanalytic and body centered approach to the screen. How to optimize your online space to decrease frustration and exhaustion while enhancing aliveness, authentic encounter, and intimacy.
- Activating safety and intimacy within online psychotherapy groups. How to manage technological, practical and ethical group boundaries, as well as activating interpersonal connection in the here and now.