The Online Counselling Podcast

An interview with Jeff Guenther, founder of Therapy Den. Jeff Guenther is a licensed
professional counselor and the founder of Therapy Den – a unique directory of
psychotherapists that aims to be inclusive of all needs and works to promote diversity. Who
better to talk about directories, than the founder of one?! Jeff has a wealth of knowledge and
his site is full of information – including a great list of questions to explore on y...

Today we get to talk with Dr. Carly McCord about how she helped develop the
TeleHealth Counseling Clinic at Texas A & M. Seeing that there was a need in rural
Texas for mental health care, but realizing that clients had huge obstacles in
receiving it (digital divide, transportation, etc) and having many qualified doctoral
students at the University – she worked to combine the need with her students and
added in technology – dev...

Forrest Pulley – Co-Founder
Nicholas Fuller – Chief Technical Officer
I am so fortunate to get to talk to Forrest Pulley (co-founder) and Nicholas Fuller
(Chief Technical Officer) of iTherapy. iTherapy is an incredibly robust service that
serves the field of online therapy. They offier HIPAA compliant video, EHR services,
payment gateway, scheduling, notes and other services that are typical in the field.
But they set themselves ap...

Today’s interview is with Martin Perry who is the founder of Nous Talk. Nous Talk
is a new HIPAA compliant Audio / Video platform built specifically for online
therapists. I’ve tried it out for the last month and am incredibly impressed. They
are super HIPAA compliant – just not offering a BAA, but also addressing levels of
HIPAA that other platforms do not – and they comply with malpractice insurers!
They offer Group sessions, acc...

Synergy ETherapy

Building an online private practice can be hard enough – but what about building a
100% Online GROUP practice? Well Lisa Herman of Synergy ETherapy has done just
that and she has grown this practice to Minnesota and New York and now has 5
therapists in the group. She truly is a Therapy Entrepreneur and we are so lucky to
have her tell us how she did it. In the podcast interview today, we talk about hiring
theraists...

Dr. Christopher Quarto is a licensed psychologist and professor in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee and is the founder of the Distance Counseling Community Facebook
Group. He is incredibly active on social media and always has very valuable
information for therapists who have questions about online counseling. He’s very
generous about his time and his comments are always spot on. He has also
developed a framework for educators to use when t...

Marc Lehman has come up with a brilliant approach to reaching college students
and making therapy available to them. Dorm Room Counseling uses online
counseling to help young adults through the very stressful process of adjusting to
college. Transitioning from high school to a college is incredibly difficult and more
so today – when teens are struggling with social norms, societal stress and academic
pressures. Marc meets these col...

Today we get to know a therapist who was based in Austin, Texas – but wanted to
travel the world with her family. Having a successful private practice, she worked to
transition her face to face clients to begin working online with her. She then began
to build up more online clients. She now lives in Costa Rica with her family and
continues to work with her clients from Austin and is beginning to reach out to the
population of “digi...

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had a new episode, but I think this will be worth the wait! Today we speak with Beata Klarowska, who is the co-founder of TheraPlatform.com. She is a speech and language pathologist who saw a need for a tele-therapy platform that provided interactive forms and HIPAA compliant connection for therapists and clients. This platform has tons of great options and is very affordable. And they are designed...

To celebrate episode 50, we answer one of the top questions psychotherapists have
when it comes to starting an online counseling practice: What needs to be in my
informed consent? We all know that there are certain paperwork needs for private
practice, but how do those needs change when we bring technology into the picture?
Today we speak with Katie Lemieux, and Kate Campbell – co-founders of The
Private Practice Startup. They spen...

Philippa Weitz and Adrian Rhodes

Face to Face Counseling vs. Online Counseling

Today we have our first panel discussion! And what a distinguished panel it is:

Philippa Weitz is a returning guest, she is the author of Psychotherapy 2.0 and

Managing Director of PW Training, which is a training program for online therapists.

Adrian Rhodes is a past president of European Association for Psychotherapy and

has over 40 years experience in...

Today we travel to Switzerland to speak with Claudia Pluss, CEO of Perceptiko and

developer of Catch Eye – a plug in technology that adjusts the appearance of our

eyes online to improve eye contact. One of the few problems of doing online

counseling is maintaining good eye contact with our clients. If we are looking at

their image on the screen, we aren’t looking directly into the camera – which can

make it appear that we aren’t ma...

Diann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has taken the leap into Life Coaching.

She has a fascinating story of how she used coaches to grow her Private Practice and

found that the process really resonated with her. As a result, she has gotten

extensive training in Life Coaching and is now embarking on a new phase of her

career – focusing on Women in Mid-Life who also have ADHD. She has extensive

experience with connecting wit...

Once we leave grad school and start out as professional counselors, it is of the

utmost importance to keep learning! My wife once said she wanted to be known as

a “Life Long Learner” and that should be all of us. It’s important to know the latest

developments in our field and to keep abreast of different approaches. But it’s

difficult to do this. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a library of video chats that provides

continuing educatio...

Catherine is a LCSW and certified coach, working online using Energy Psychology /

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)and other modalities to help her clients heal

from past wounds – particularly doing trauma work. She has been a life long

advocate for women and minorities. Her journey to the online world is fascinating –

she even created Tele-Summits to highlight the expertise of 21 different health

professionals – and this was back ...

Two heads are better than one, goes the old saying. And when starting a business,

especially a private practice, maybe it’s better not to go it alone – especially when

you and your partner complement each other’s skill sets. This is the story of

Jennifer Labanowski and Shelly Smith – two Marriage and Family Therapists who

have come together to launch a team private practice – serving clients online in four

different states! As they...

Today we continue our series of exploration into HIPAA compliant platforms that

are available to psychotherapists when connecting with our clients. One of the

biggest questions we get about online therapy is: If I can’t use skype or FaceTime,

what services should I use? So we are trying to answer that question by

interviewing the leading platforms that are encrypted and HIPAA compliant. Zoom

is a leading provider of audio / visual ...

I love when we get to interview successful online therapists so we can

learn from them. Today, we talk with Viktoria Ivanova, who began her

online therapy practice 1 year ago after deciding to move from Canada

to The Philippines. Having a love of the ex-pat lifestyle, she needed a

way to make her therapy practice mobile, and she has done just that.

She talks about her journey in finding the right platform for her and

how she is lea...