Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Counseling

This kind of
professional assistance is meant to cover some gaps that the traditional
counseling might have. First of all, as any online service, it can go with you
anywhere you go. Many times, people postpone their asking for help due to lack
of time. Either because they have to drive far to see their therapist or that
they work too hard so when getting back home, they just want to relax on the
couch, counseling is generally postponed. Now, those excuses might not longer
work given that you can ask for counseling from your house without driving
anywhere but comfortably placed on your sofa or from your desk in your office. Counseling
can be a peaceful moment you give to yourself.

Also,
some people might feel discouraged to start with therapy because they have to
travel as part of their job. That is another case when online counseling
appears as the best option. In fact, when traveling, people might feel
specially awkward or lonely in the new environment; and being able to count on
a close professional who is ready to listen and pay complete attention to you
in those “far from home moments” can be a bless.

We
know many cases of very shy people who might feel quite uncomfortable if they
had to talk face to face with a professional about their concerns. That is
exactly what the online counseling wants to prevent. You control you space,
intimacy and dialogue.

On
top of all these strong points, what we think is essential in the results we
get when working online is the strength of the writing process. When one has
the time to think about what is going on inside him/her, it gives a different perspective
of us. Talking is a fast action and we might lose a lot of important things we
thought about and talked in a face to face session. But when things remained
written, it provides you with a constant record you can retrieve any time you
want. You can check what you said and what you received as a response in a past
session and then compare it you’re your present to evaluate your progresses.

Writing
to a person who is willing to help you is therapeutic by itself. It can give
you a new insight of your concern that you might have never reached if just
talking about it.

Of
course, there are things that the face to face counseling covers that the e-therapy
lacks. We are talking of the non-verbal communication that is missing when the
screen separates people. Also, it may happen that a person needs to be
physically comforted when being in a counseling session and we cannot do that
online. Being aware of those disadvantages, we, as professionals, face our role
with all our heart and seriousness so as to make the best out of all the
strengths of the online counseling.

Mike
Dionne

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