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See the Farmington office
For PHONE clients
Online secure CHAT sessions
Increasing numbers of clients enjoy scheduling online sessions, which can work well for people who can't come to the office (ever, or perhaps now and then) or who process most comfortably through the written word. When we schedule a chat, I will give you a password that will work only for the interval of our session. You will return to this page at our scheduled time, and CLICK HERE to enter the secure chat room. Make sure your browser is JAVA ENABLED. Only you and I have access to our session. Unlike settings such as AIM, our messages will be encrypted and incomprehensible to anyone but you and me.
An important note about on-line counseling: In the mental health community, we are all watching closely to see how on-line counseling will develop as a subfield. There are many practitioners who are thinking carefully about how (and whether) to incorporate on-line sessions into their practice, how to ensure that we as therapists are able to adequately convey positive regard, a nonjudgmental posture, concern, a tone that conveys nuance -- all the qualities that are more easily read through facial expression, inflection, body language, and shared pauses. Each of us needs to ask, will I be able to convey caring and concern as easily as I can when I am meeting with a client face-to-face? Will I be able to hear the emotional content and tone of a written message as clearly as I can read it in the presence of a client?
The truth is, probably not. And so both client and counselor need to enter an on-line relationship with care, and with a shared understanding that extra effort must be made to ensure that we are understanding each other's messages. That process, that effort to understand -- to check our interpretation against the true message -- needs to be part of the connection that the counselor and client build. It changes the journey, but it is still a meaningful journey that we take together.
The standard fee of $100 per 45-minute session applies. We can also arrange to have 30-minute sessions, incurring a fee of $70. All online sessions must be scheduled between us in advance.
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