If you have found this website, it is probably as a result of searching for a therapist that offers online counselling and / or online psychotherapy. You are not alone.
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist. Ordinarily, I would explain I have a private practice in Eastbourne, East Sussex – but online therapy provision reaches beyond my (and your) geographical location. In March 2020, like many other therapists, I was “forced” to move my face-to-face practice online due to the pandemic. Maybe you had a parallel experience? And like me, maybe you too had the surprising and encouraging experience that online therapy IS effective; the videoconferencing meeting room providing a “good enough” replacement for the physical therapy room.
In my previous work as a coach, much of my interaction with athletes, individual clients, and groups was online: so when my profession moved en mass to the virtual practice of counselling and psychotherapy I did not share the anxiety of the technology; nor did I doubt my ability to form close and trustworthy relationship online. This was also significant in my ability to hold the trainee counsellors and psychotherapists I work with in my role as educator and trainer – one has to have the confidence and faith in the online medium to model how it works, and why it works.
And in arriving at this website, I am imagining you too share some of that confidence.
Online therapy is a means of accessing the same quality of support you would expect in the face-to-face consulting room from the comfort and safety of your own home. Much of the process is the same, and yet it offers a convenience that many people (post pandemic in particular) are valuing: for example, not having the costs of both time and travel to come to the therapy session.
And, there are other benefits too:
• You can create a comfortable and private space in your own home from which to attend therapy.
• You may find it easier to open up, talk, focus and express yourself.
• You may enjoy wearing comfortable clothes, bringing a cup of tea and avoiding a commute after a therapy session.
• You may find more flexibility when needing to re-schedule a session.
• It might be possible to continue the work together when meeting face to face would be difficult e.g. work commitments that require travel away; if there is a geographical change to your living situation
And given online therapy has become so prevalent now, there is a growing research base showing that online therapy is as effective as in-person therapy!
This is a landing page from where you can navigate to my main website. Please visit www.drhelencarter.com for more details on how I practice, the special interests and expertise I have, and to see my blog which explores the whole gambit of what it is to be human!
I look forward to interacting with you!