In real life, there is a big obstacle in psychological counseling, that is, the parties' doubts about confidentiality, which does not exist in online counseling. When surfing the internet, the client logs in as a virtual identity, which can hide your real name, appearance, voice and other privacy, even the gender is unknown to others. In this case. Even if you put your personal information on BBS, others can't sit in the right place and guess your true identity.
2. Equal and relaxed consultation and visiting relationship.
In traditional psychological counseling, the relationship between counselors is a vertical interpersonal relationship similar to that between superiors and subordinates, teachers and students. In the virtual state, face-to-face pressure and embarrassment are avoided. This will save the parties from worrying about social evaluation and eliminate all kinds of concerns. Open your heart and state your psychological confusion and needs as truthfully as possible, which will help counselors to understand the real psychological situation of clients more comprehensively and take appropriate measures to solve their problems.
3. Increased freedom of choice.
Different from traditional psychological counseling, online counseling is not limited by objective conditions such as traffic, which frees people from the constraints of time and space. The parties are free to come and go, and their actions are convenient. You can choose to consult or terminate the consultation at any time according to your own needs, you can choose your favorite consultant freely, and you can log in again with a new identity.
4. Rich in information
The psychological crux of some parties is due to inexperience and information occlusion, which often requires the psychotherapist to have rich experience and a lot of information. But in real life, everyone's experience and energy are limited. And surfing the internet can solve this contradiction very well. You can meet all kinds of people through online communication. The breadth and richness of contact range are incomparable in real life. The parties can communicate with them and get along with them, and indirectly do psychological counseling. This kind of consultation gives individuals great initiative. It is of great benefit to problem solving and psychological growth.
5, convenient and fast
The convenient and fast characteristics of the network also make online psychological counseling popular. No matter where the parties are, as long as they have a computer with Internet access, they can seek the help of psychologists or many netizens to solve psychological confusion in time and avoid leaving an introduction of mental illness. Consultants can also reply online at any time, regardless of time and place.
6, easy to think and analyze
When communicating by email or forum, both parties and consultants need to write letters. Writing itself is also a process of sorting out ideas and self-reflection. Different from face-to-face consultation and telephone consultation, it doesn't need to know each other's intentions and react immediately, but it can have relatively loose time to think and analyze carefully, thus enhancing the accuracy of grasping the problem.
7, easy to store and query cases
In traditional psychological consultation, the preservation and inquiry of cases is a trivial matter, which is quite time-consuming and laborious, but it is easy to realize online consultation with the help of modern technical means. Therefore, firstly, it greatly improves the efficiency of consultant's supervision and research work, and provides a broader choice space for the parties. Participants can find relevant content from major search engines or according to the column settings of web pages. If they are interested, they can also look at the existing cases first to see if there is anything they want. If you don't understand. Then be sure to consult yourself further.
In addition, online consultation is also an economical and time-saving consultation method. At present, most grid consultation in China is free, even if it is charged, it is cheaper than face-to-face consultation. Network consultation also saves people the trouble of taking transportation, especially in crowded cities, which is more attractive.