Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2013, at 1:04:52
In reply to Re: Skype for therapy » winsome, posted by Phillipa on July 10, 2013, at 20:04:40
I spoke to my Aussie therapist a couple times via Skype when I was in the US. We just used the audio, though, not the video. It was okay. A little tricky because Skype reception can vary. Might be less of a problem with both parties in the same country, perhaps.
Phone is different from in person. In some ways I liked it better, in other ways I didn't. I could imagine feeling similarly about Skype. There could be different ways of setting up the camera etc for more or less body language.
My therapist used to be deeply skeptical of my emailing him and stuff like that. I guess because his focus was on emotional attunement so more emotional resonance rather than focusing on the content of what I was saying particularly... But then I'm very verbal, so getting rid of the other cues and just working with the content was important to me, at least some of the time. Important for me in coming to have the courage to express the inexpressable -- I think that was a huge part of the process for me... Admitting to feelings / thoughts etc I was deeply ashamed of... Processing them different into something honest that I could live with myself for having.
He seemed to learn something about that. It seemed to surprise him, rather. The writing and revising and working through.
Like how Babble is important to me but we don't get any body language etc cues here... It took him a while before he came to appreciate how deeply connected I could come to feel with people at this site.
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