Teletherapy Across State Lines: Doing It Legally
We’ll explain if and how you can see a client in another state. Cross-state practice is more doable than therapists realize — especially during COVID.
Improve Your Online Therapy Skills: Learn to Use Online Disinhibition Effect
The Online Disinhibition Effect arises in computer-mediated interactions. Working with ODE is essential to effective telemental health therapies.
Smartphone Hotspots For Telemental Health
Liath answers: Is it HIPAA-secure to use my phone or WiFi hotspot device in my practice? What about using it for telemental health sessions?
Your Questions Answered (About Telemental Health)
Can I do telemental health with clients in other countries? What does insurance want from therapists who work online? All these and more will be answered!
Making Eye Contact Over Video in Telemental Health Services
Making eye contact over video is less difficult than it may seem, and you wouldn’t believe what the best way to do it is!
To Practice Telemental Health, Am I Required to Receive Training?
We learn new therapy modalities and mediums in a variety of ways, and telemental health is simply yet another medium. But do ethical standards or laws *require* training before we can engage in the practice?
Do I Need a Whole Telemental Health “Platform?”
A current trend in telemental health is the use of “platforms” for delivering and managing services. Platforms are integrated services that include multiple features for telemental health pros besides just the basic video calling. The question is: do you need one for your telemental health practice? Or is a piecemeal approach to your tech the […]
What You Need to Know About Telemental Health Technology
With the growing popularity of telemental health, it’s a wonder that it isn’t easier to identify which software is best to use to perform these services. Here I will try to provide some clarity on that subject. What Video Software Should I Use? When choosing software, we need to consider if it is secure enough […]
International Online Therapy: What to Know Before You Go (and Start Doing It)
International online therapy means a lot of jurisdictions and complexity. But it’s definitely achievable if you know before you go (and start doing it)!
When Online Therapy Video Sessions Go Glitchy: Some Tips
A delicate intervention is blocked by chopping or freezing. Or the connection is so bad there’s just no doing therapy at all. What can we do to fix that?