Protecting the Client's Story: Best Practices for Virtual Therapy and Coaching

Do you provide virtual/on-line therapy/counseling/coaching services to your clients?

Are you an amateur when using technology to appropriately, ethically and securely deliver your services?

Gestalt therapists/counselors/coaches have been – and will continue - providing their services using on-line platforms (e.g., Zoom). How many of us have an understanding of the exposure and risk associated with practicing online? Perhaps you, too, want (and need) a quick and informative understanding with an easy-to-implement set of items to reduce your risk/exposure and improve your effectiveness for delivering services online.

Bring your favorite beverage and join us for three short, practical and happy-hour-time sessions to learn and implement a few high-impact things you can do immediately to reduce your online risk and increase your online effectiveness.

Session 1: Get rid of risk: Understand the overt and hidden risks providing online therapy/counseling/coaching, including steps to take to mitigate them. 

Session 2: Implement what you need: Open session, like “office hours” to get your questions answered and assist each person in taking the specific appropriate actions needed.

Session 3: Enhance your effectiveness: In a thought-partnership session, learn and share practical ideas to increase your online embodiment and maximize your impact as you work the on-line relational field.

Participants completing this workshop series of 3 sessions will be able to:

• Describe the core principles of maintaining client confidentiality and protecting sensitive information in virtual therapy settings.

• Identify common privacy and security risks in virtual practice and learn practical strategies to mitigate them.

• Develop a clear framework to ensure clients’ stories are honored and safeguarded through ethical and secure practices.

• Gather information about other interveners experiences and the strategies used to manage challenges.

• Increase knowledge of additional pitfalls that could emerge, through dialogue with colleagues.

• Apply the learnings from the sessions into your own practice right away.