This counseling 2.0 is booming in part because so many people are suffering from mental-health woes such as stress, anxiety, and depression-and women are at higher risk, says David Muzina, M.D., of the Medco Neuroscience Therapeutic Resource Center in Dallas. Sites such as Cope Today, TherapyLiveCare, and NowClinic have sprouted up to meet demand by providing the technology (and, in some cases, the therapists as well). Though the show is a spoof, it's based on a very real trend: Therapists are reporting a rise in the number of patients requesting video sessions, says Mary Alvord, Ph.D., presidentelect of the American Psychological Association (APA) Media Psychology Division. The way we work through issues feels comfortable and safe."Įver since the debut of Lisa Kudrow's Showtime series Web Therapy (which premiered on the Internet, natch), people have been buzzing about the viability of transferring couch sessions to the computer.
Sure, Shirley could have found a new doctor (she's fluent in French) but, she says, "after five years together, my therapist knows me. So at the same time each week, Shirley pops open her laptop, and via live-streaming video, she unloads the week's emotional highs and lows while her shrink listens carefully from across the Atlantic. But there was one thing the 36-year-old journalist couldn't leave behind: her weekly therapy sessions. When Shirley Velasquez's husband was relocated to Paris, she quit her job and bid their friends and New York City apartment good-bye.
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