Archive for the ‘Online Counseling and Telephone Counseling’ Category

Finding Family on Craigslist?? People are Filling their Hearts, and their Stomachs, Online this Holiday Season

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Did you know people are finding Surrogate Family on Craigslist this holiday season?   Sounds like a strange question, but that's just what Gloria Goodale, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, was asking last week as she prepared an article about seasonal gatherings.       Her article, "To fill a table, they go ...

Online Social Networking (i.e., “Facebooking”) with Therapy Clients

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

It finally happened. I have profiles on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, Technorati, Ning, Squidoo, XING, Answers.Yahoo, GodTube, MySpace, Yedda, Furl, Blogger, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Yelp, and Google Talk, to name a few. Most of these I hardly use. Some of them I've been on once to create ...

Online Counseling and Telephone Counseling (eCounseling) with Clients in Crisis

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

All eCounselors provide some crisis counseling. Crisis situations are a common concern for eCounselors – and rightly so. To be ethical, counselors of all philosophies and practice settings need to handle these situations carefully. If you haven’t been concerned, consider that failures to make efforts to prevent client suicide account for ...