Online and Zoom therapy in body psychotherapy - Resonance and connection in the Covid-19 era
31 באוגוסט 2020
Is online therapy the future of psychotherapy?
When the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, we all became Zoom therapists at short notice. We had to encompass and support our clients and be there for them. This period is presenting everyone with many emotional and psychological challenges. In fact though, even after Covid-19 comes to an end, Zoom therapy and online therapy are likely to remain with us.
For the past four years I’ve gained experience in online therapy using Skype, with clients overseas and/or in Israel who live far from my clinic. From that experience, and because of the intensiveness of therapy sessions at the present time, I’ve noticed that resonating experiences at the physical, energetic, and breathing level has become a vital resource for the therapist. It helps to create and preserve a deep therapeutic relationship, despite the distance and the computer-screen dividing us.
How should we integrate the body psychotherapy sphere with awareness to the body - emotions - spirit - breathing connection in Zoom therapy?
In the past few months our clinics have made the transition to remote therapy via Zoom. Those who did not previously provide therapy online - and even those who did – are now coping with long hours and continuous days of computer therapy.
As therapists our task is not only to get organised and adapt ourselves, but also to modify our therapy and to examine in depth the significance of remote therapy, and the unique qualities of this approach.
At further training courses for therapists and coaching therapist I’m now focusing on questions and issues connected to online therapy, and body psychotherapy through Zoom.
Among others, I’m teaching and training therapists in:
- how to create a profound therapeutic relationship through the computer screen, and how to overcome the lack of physical connection;
- how to cope with the transference and countertransference that’s unique to Zoom therapy;
- creating a special setting, and a sense of security and trust;
- supportive treatment in crisis situations, with breathing and movement exercises;
- physical and mental feelings and resonance from both sides of the screen;
- what happens to the therapist-client encounter at the energetic level and other levels;
- how to work with the body and breathing in long-distance therapy;
- working with movement in the therapeutic space via Zoom or Skype – can it be done?
- how to work with Zoom couple therapy, with two or three screens.
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