The usual demands we receive differ
on its frequency and acuteness. Some people decide to start with periodic
counseling sessions after facing a crisis. So they consider the online
counseling as a routine that they keep (once or twice a week) during the time
when they are solving their problematic situation (like a divorce or a grief
process).
Other people take the online
counseling as a regular therapy. So they have an appointment with their online
counselor once a week. And they take that regular session as their moment for
personal insight, their time for putting in order their thoughts and feelings.
People usually avoid getting deeper into what happens to them during the
working days, as if in that way they could prevent from getting distracted and
being unable to function. When people hide from themselves and ignore self
questioning for too long, meanings in their lives may vanish progressively. So
even if they consciously avoid getting too pensive when they need to be
concentrated on work, it is always positive to give yourself a time for
reflecting. And with that purpose in mind, the online counseling can make a
difference.
The third type of demand we receive
comes from people who just want to have a pro
fessional point of view over an
issue that is concerning them. Those people are usually looking for enough
encouragement to do something that they are about to do. In those cases, the
therapist listens to the variables involved in the issue and acts as an
objective witness of the client’s oncoming decision. So the therapist can help
to concretize that decision when the person is hesitating. In this kind of
demands, the interaction between the two parts lasts until the clients finishes
to confront his/her thinking and opinions with the professional’s ones.
As you can
see, the frequency of online counseling sessions is strongly related to the
acuteness and deepness of the issue that will be covered in the therapy. To
give some examples, couples counseling is something that always comes up in
weekly sessions even when there are not
big problems in a couple but partners just want to improve their experience
together (they look for sexual advice or parenting guidance, etc). But a divorce
or a grief process is something that has to have a beginning and an end and
people need to get through it in order to keep on track with their lives. In
the last case, the regularity and incidence of the online counseling should be
higher.
Mike Dionne
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