How does online psychotherapy work?

The latest technological advances have made it possible to popularize this means of therapy.

The research that has been carried out on online psychology has shown that the effectiveness of the treatments is at least equal to the results presented by psychotherapies carried out in person.

We know that for psychotherapy to be effective, an adequate relationship between the psychologist and the person requesting his or her services is absolutely essential. This patient-psychologist interaction, thanks to the advances in communication, can take place not only face-to-face but also at a distance..

It is evident 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 of doing psychotherapy is useful.

After what has been said above, we can affirm that online psychology is a suitable means of communication between psychologist and patient, as it provides the necessary verbal and visual interaction.as it provides us with the necessary verbal and visual interaction. Let's see more in detail how online psychology can help patients.

What is a videoconference?

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. In addition, it offers the possibility of having different digital tools, it offers the possibility of having different digital toolssuch as sending videos, images, files, audios, links, etc.

What is fundamental of videoconferencing is the possibility that it offers you of accessibility to an ideal communicationThe system allows you to send and receive both visual and sound information between different sites. This generates the possibility that the patient can avoid the expenses and loss of time involved in traveling to the psychologist's office.

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

What does videoconferencing bring 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 communication between therapist and patient. In order to be effective, this interaction has to take place in a slow, calm, unhurried way, in a warm, safe and trusting atmosphere. If the psychologist and the patient achieve this, the therapy will be very similar to face-to-face psychotherapy.

How online psychotherapy works

The online psychotherapy consists of offering you the psychotherapeutic tools so that you can achieve a psychological improvement, with the particularity that these tools will be delivered to you online, from the Internet. will be delivered to you online, from the Internet. For you to understand me more clearly, we will provide you with the psychological therapy that we offer in the face-to-face consultation, with the difference that the way through which you interact with your psychologist is not face-to-face, but by videoconference.

In online psychology there are many tools that can help us: email, telephone, chat, videoconferencing... but there is one element that brings together all the properties in one: videoconferencing. Having the possibility of digital communication over the Internet allows us to carry out the therapy in such a way that psychologist and patient can interact by seeing each other, listening to each other, talking to each other, writing to each other, sharing documents and images, etc.sharing documents and images, etc.

Today we can say that videoconferencing is a very important way to bring people together. It is being used, for work purposes to connect with other colleagues, in business meetings, when people are expatriates and/or away from their families and friends, it is used by those who have a partner in a distant place. And of course, as it could not be otherwise, it will also serve us in the field of online psychology, so that psychologist and patient can carry out the psychotherapy sessions.

How does the email counseling 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 for a specific problem.. If it is not attended in this way, it is most likely that the consultation would not be done.

What is offered is to evaluate and answer the questions sent by the person in a totally individualized way.. What must be clear is that the response is counseling and does not involve in itself a psychotherapeutic treatment.

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