1.       Fewer obstacles for getting started!

Patients in need of therapy are reaching out for a reason. Typically this will involve insecurities and anxiety. Well, finding someone to talk to, to share with for the first time can be a daunting prospect. A simple description for this is - you know all the things you hate about visiting your Doctor or dental waiting area? Well, they can apply in therapy as well. Finding the location, saying your name aloud to reception, waiting for your turn in line…. Even going outside in the first place for some who may have agoraphobia or a fear of crowded or noisy places. With virtual therapy you can eliminate all of that.

With the opportunity to seek support from the comfort of your own front room, garden office or kitchen table, your own place of safety with your dog by your feet or your cat on your lap…. you can have all the things which make you feel secure and comfortable around you. Access to your own WC, your own special mug, snacks on hand and comfy slippers.

What better start to a course of therapy or at least explore the concept, than opening up in your own safe space?

2. Feeling of Privacy:

While this aspect can vary greatly, depending upon the home situation for our clients, this aspect reminds us that there can often be an awkward exchange in a waiting room or as clients pass at the door… they may well have known one another since they were children, enemies from situations past or even be neighbours!

We work with many young people, and those transitioning or on their transgender journey, who may have the additional worries of social conformity to manage.  Whilst there is a silver lining of running into acquaintances (therapy becomes normalised and that feeling of suffering alone can be diminished), virtual therapy removes this concern for our clients.  

3. Efficiency: 

In our modern world, lockdown or not, time is one of our most precious resources. Commutes can be frustratingly stress-inducing and anxieties about being late or getting lost are very real for our customers, already often dealing with anxiety pressures or simply having an awful lot on their plates to begin with!

We can meet our clients needs quickly with a tele-consultation and remove the stress and additional time required for travel and parking, for example. Swift support is but a few clicks away.

4. Contagion and Illness:

It is a common theme for stressed, overworked or simply very depressed or anxious people to be brought down with frequent illness. At this time of the Covid pandemic, or at any other with the usual viruses being spread at schools and workplaces or social situations; flus, bugs and other general illnesses can be spread easily or even prevent clients from reaching us in person.

Virtual therapies  allow for fewer cancellations due to illness and bring about the ability to continue working and providing support – great for all parties!

5. Flexibility:

For already overcommitted clients, often having childcare or caring demands, busy work schedules and who at times may be on the brink of exhaustion or breakdown, those who often need the services of talking therapy or hypnotherapy, NLP or coaching, tend to have the least time in their schedule.

The ability to schedule therapy slots in and around “standard” hours of opening can be incredibly useful – and this is much more easily achieved when we are all in our homes and near a phone, tablet or laptop.    

6.       Smooth Communications

With even the Government and Council members running the country from their own home offices, we have all learned with 2020’s new ways of living and working, that communicating serious issues and resolving them too – can be easily handled and managed across a screen. One can still watch an individual’s body language, hear their voice and see their facial expressions.

Whilst phone conversations can often open up a deeper level of intimacy and always have done due to the focus being on the words themselves, all aspects of virtual and remote therapies have their advantages for opening up and communicating efficiently.  

7. Access for All

Access for the disabled or those without transport is suddenly no longer a problem! So, you struggle with stairs, walking or wheelchair access? You might live in another country or county? Accessing the best wellbeing services and mental health support of your choosing is not dependant on us being in your home town or on a ground floor in an accessible part of town!

Borderless wellness therapies can be as remote as thousands of miles – flexibility is here, for all.