Secure Online Therapy: More Choices, More Options

If you need some feedback right now
from a psychologist or other licensed mental health professional, it
may be easier than you think. Using secure and confidential live chat,
you can connect with a counselor or therapist of your choice in real
time, with no need to wait for an email reply, and no waiting lists.

This isn't a free online counseling service (although all consultations are
free for the first few minutes, while you're deciding whether to work
with any given counselor).

It is quick and easy and you can stop
the conversation any time you would like to, paying only for the time
you've actually used.
Contrast that with the usual arrangement for
in-office consultation, where you'll usually have to pay in advance for
the full hour even if you only need five minutes to ask a question and
get an answer!

• Addictions
  
  • Including online counseling for gambling addiction, internet addiction, smoking cessation,substance abuse, and even work addiction
  
  
• Coping with Crisis & Physical Conditions
  
  • Specialist therapists work with aging,anxiety and stress,grief and loss,infertility, loneliness, mid-life crises, pain and illness, sleep disorders, and violence and abuse
  
  
• Eating Disorders
  
  • Online therapists specialize in both anorexia and bulimia
  
  
• Parenting
  
  • Counselors available via live chat cover a wide range of parenting concerns, including ADD/ADHD,adoption, child development, special needs, adolescence, education, family therapy, and single parenting
  
  
• Personal Development
  
  • With online consultations for anger management, assertiveness, career counseling, interpersonal communication, motivation and drive, and self-esteem and confidence
  
  
• Personality & Emotional Disorders
  
  • Specialists work online with bipolar disorder, OCD, depression, personality disorders, and phobias
  
  
• Relationships
  
  • Including online counselors experienced with abusive relationships,breaking up and divorce,coping with infidelity, gay and lesbian issues, marriage counseling, sex therapy, and dating
  
  
• Supervision for Professional Counselors

Getting Started With Online Counseling or Online Therapy via Chat

Getting started with online counseling via secure chat is quick and
easy, with a wide variety of prices available and, notably, it won't
cost you a thing unless or until you decide to you want to hire a
specific mental health professional for consultation.

You can chat with
them first, evaluate their service, and then you decide
whether to continue on a paid basis.

Your personal details are kept
entirely confidential, and credit card billing activities are handled
completely by the company providing the service, which never shares
these details with the mental health professional.

If you do decide to
continue on a paid basis, you can stop the session at any time you
wish, and you will be billed only for the actual time you spent in the
session.

Working online provides counseling and therapy clients with several advantages in terms of choice of counselors and 'meeting' arrangements.
Client Choice and Geography

Clients can choose an online counselor for reasons completely independent of geographical proximity, such as theoretical orientation or specialization. Rather than starting with the question of who is available in their area, clients can start with the question of what kind of service they would like. From the counselor's's point of view, all clients can be dealt with in the same way, whether they live on a remote island, in the center of a large city, or in a completely different country.
Flexible Physical Requirements

Clients don't need to be physically mobile. Clients don't need to be able to hear. In general, clients don't need to be feeling physically 100% in the way they might if they were attending an appointment in the counselor's office. Clients can make themselves comfortable with a cup of tea, candlelight, music, or anything else that contributes to their well-being.
Flexible, Client-Driven 'Appointment' Times

For clients who are unable to keep regular appointment times for reasons of work — or who just don't like regular appointment times for any reason at all! — the flexibility of working with an asynchronous medium like email can make the difference between pursuing counseling and doing without.