Online Therapy

Online therapy with me has proven to be effective for both individual and couples work and can also be a far more effective medium for hypnosis work than self-hypnosis CD’s alone. As part of my responsibilities as Director of Website and Technology for The Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapy, and Researcher of Technological Competence for York University’s faculty of nursing, I have spent a great deal of time evaluating, developing and integrating various web technologies into both educational and therapeutic environments, something that I would like you to benefit from.

Online therapy is a great way to increase the convenience of entering therapy with the therapist of your choice, without ever having to leave the comfort of your own home. This can be particularly useful if you do not have access to transportation, suffer from debilitating phobias such as agoraphobia, find it difficult to get around or are suffering from chronic pain or chronic fatigue. You can still see me for the therapy you need.

If you have spent any amount of time trying to find the right therapist for you, you may have found it difficult, particularly in suburban areas, to find very many therapists to choose from to begin with. We all vary in our personalities, theoretical approaches, effectiveness and fees. The most important factors when locating the right therapist for you, are not: location; location; location, they are: therapist; therapy; location, in that order. The fee may be important to you, but if the right therapist for you has an office 300 miles away, it won’t really be the determining factor.

If you are forced to factor in conveniences like: needing your therapist to have an office somewhere on your route to work and to have a session space available at the time that you leave work each day, although conducive to 21st century time constraints and responsibility overload, you may be severely limiting your options. After all, if the best therapist that you can find on your budget, is not already booked by another time restrained client, I imagine that would be a surprising stroke of good fortune for you. If all the stars fail to align so perfectly, you may have to start considering other options, maybe making a compromise.

What are you prepared to compromise? Cost? Time? Location? Therapy? Therapist?

Utilizing the services of a therapist from the comfort of your own home is great option. In considering your possible compromises, be aware that there may be many telephone counsellors available for you to consider, but a great deal of human communication happens on a non-verbal level, a comforting smile, a reassuring look, an un-spoken invitation to say more or a shared understanding of the un-said being just a few examples.

I offer remote therapy services to couples and individuals outside of my office by utilizing online video connection services. I am currently available to see and hear you via Skype™ which, apart from helping you avoid the constantly increasing cost of commuting, offers a substantial improvement over most phone counselling services that you may have found. Why not take advantage of your internet services and immediately increase your list of therapists to choose from?

By offering skype appointments both during the week and over the weekend, I am able to provide the therapeutic services you are looking for, wherever you live on the world wide web. To begin, all you need to do is download the latest version of the skype software from their website www.skype.com and after downloading, double-clicking on the file to start installation. It is a very simple process and will only take you a few minutes. During the automated installation, you will be asked to decide on a username for yourself. My Skype username is “david-fairweather”.

It is a simple process to pay for your sessions using PayPal. When we are e-mailing each other to schedule your skype therapy session, you can utilize the convenience of PayPalliize to make a credit card payment without even leaving the house. I will remind you to let me know your chosen skype username during our e-mail communication and when I am available to call you at the time of our session together, I will have all the information I need for you to begin Skype therapy.

Over the years I have been offering Skype therapy, I have had the opportunity to Skype new and existing clients across Canada, England, Western Europe and the United States of America. The only thing that changes is the time zone. My office stays consistent, my engagement with you stays consistent and, even if you move, our therapeutic alliance remains consistent.

Nothing has to change when we are able to transcend geographical restrictions and connect with undisturbed regularity each and every week.