Setting Up Online Counselling: Not Just a Couple of Clicks
The purpose of counselling is generally to help people learn to live in happier, more effective ways, which more often than not means helping them learn how to come together better with other people. In these pandemic-permeated times, however, we are told by authorities that the most effective means of being with others is to keep our (physical) distance from them — at least a little, and sometimes a lot — as region after region engages lockdown. Dealing with that together-alone paradox is the latest challenge for the helping professions and one way of resolving it, while continuing to extend a helping hand, is for counsellors to see clients in online sessions. In this article we look into what must be considered when setting up an online counselling capability. »
