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Telephone counseling has been an important part of mental health services for over 50 years. It is proven to be an effective, affordable and satisfying method for receiving counseling. Telephone counseling is much like traditional in-person counseling. However, rather than meeting in an office, you can speak to your counselor entirely by telephone.
There are many advantages to telephone counseling, including:
- Flexibility: you can do counseling from anywhere
- Time: We can connect you with a professional counselor anytime: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. After that, scheduling additional sessions is easy
- Safety & Comfort: Talk to a counselor from the safety and comfort of your home
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To get started, simply call us at 1-866-COUNSEL (1-866-268-6735) to be connected to a pre-screened counselor, or browse online for the counselor of your choice. It’s easy!
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Email counseling is a new way of receiving professional counseling services. Instead of meeting in a counseling office, you and your counselor use secure email messaging to communicate back and forth.
There are many advantages to using eCounseling.com email counseling:
- You can write an email to your counselor anytime, 24 hours a day
- You can write to your counselor securely from any computer that has internet access
- You receive a prompt, professional, and well-through through response within 0-48 hours
- Online counseling is great if you would rather not visit a counselor in your home town
- Clients often feel more comfortable, anonymous, and safe during counseling sessions. This helps you be honest and productive
- Instead of having 45-50 minutes to tell your story, you have as much time as you need to write to your counselor
- Often new insights and old memories arise when one "puts it down in writing." All of this encourages good introspection and mindfulness
- When ideas are in writing, you and your counselor to can pay close attention to your words and feelings while still engaged in conversation
- The client is always in control of the "send" button. Therefore, you set the pace, tone, and amount of self-disclosure without pressure from the counselor.
- As the counseling process evolves, text of past sessions is proof of your progress toward your goals! With a username and password, you can re-read and review past emails from you and your counselor. eCounseling provides you with literally "words to hold onto."
New research shows that email counseling is an affordable and effective method of receiving counseling. However, email counseling isn’t for everyone. Talk to a counselor about whether email counseling is right for you.
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Text chat counseling is a new, exciting way to get professional counseling services from the convenience of anywhere. Though this is a new kind of counseling, research studies have shown that text-chat counseling is effective and affordable. Some special advantages of text-chat counseling are:
- You can write to your counselor securely from any computer that has internet access
- Text-chat counseling is great if you would rather not visit a counselor in your home town
- Clients often feel more comfortable, anonymous, and safe during counseling sessions. This helps you be honest and productive
- Often new insights and old memories arise when one "puts it down in writing." All of this encourages good introspection and mindfulness
- When ideas are in writing, it helps you and your counselor to pay close attention to your words and feelings while still engaged in conversation
- The client is always in control of the "send" button. Therefore, you set the pace, tone, and amount of self-disclosure without pressure from the counselor
- As the counseling process evolves, text of past sessions is proof of your progress toward your goals! eCounseling provides you with literally "words to hold onto"
Also, since text-chat communication is in “real-time” it closely feels like an in-person conversation. This provides for emotion-rich conversations that feel very similar to an in-person discussion.
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Counseling has helped millions of persons overcome many and difficult life issues, as well as emotional and psychological problems, such as depression, anxiety, panic, grief, loss, fears or phobias, relationship problems, loneliness, eating disorders, obsessions, career issues—and much more.
What’s more, counseling helps persons live happier and more enjoyable lives!
Quality Care is of the greatest of importance at eCounseling.com. Therefore, we pre-screen counselors to make sure theyhave a counseling licensure, are in good standing with professional boards, and have professional liability insurance (Look for the “Verified” Seal; or be sure to check into these matters before beginning counseling). Also, eCounseling.com removes any counselor who does not meet our high-expectations of positive client feedback. That way, you can be sure you are meeting an excellent, caring professional counselor.
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Asking for help can be frightening, but it is the first step to healing and personal growth. eCounseling.com allows you to browse our counselor listings; view their pictures, read their greetings, and learn about the caring professionals who want to build a counseling relationship with you.