What is Virtual Therapy

Psychotherapy is a form of therapy that involves addressing social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral challenges that people may encounter. Most often psychotherapy will involve talking about experiences, setting goals with your therapist and working through emotional experiences with various psychotherapy techniques that you and your clinician decide on.

Some therapy modalities are primarily talk based and involve exploring thoughts and feelings with logic and reason, are solution focused and aimed at changing thoughts, feelings and behaviors directly. Other therapies tend to focus on the root cause of difficulties in your life and may explore themes from your past, the meaning of your life (or life in general), understanding the human experience/struggle, and finding peace with your current circumstances. Interpersonal therapies might focus on the relationships in your life and address patterns that are causing you individual suffering and relationship difficulties. Many somatic therapies focus on exploring the more physical sensations of your emotional experiences.

Most therapists use a combination of these different approaches to address your concerns. You and your therapist can discuss a plan together as well as adapt your approach as you discover more about yourself and what you need. Over time therapy should leave you feeling a sense of improvement in your mental health and well-being. 

Meeting with a new therapist can be nerve wracking for some and can also be a little exciting. You might be looking forward to getting some things off of your chest or you might be dreading the experience of confronting difficult feelings. Many people feel a mix of emotions before they embark upon the journey of self-discovery.

Whatever your experience, your therapist is trained to walk you through the process of understanding what to expect from therapy in detail in the first session. They will explain to you how the therapeutic relationship will work confidentiality, what treatments they offer, your rights as a client and what training they have, etc. They will give you a chance to ask questions and discuss any concerns you might have at this stage.

Throughout all of your therapy, you will maintain the right to end therapy or change directions with your therapist for any reason. Your therapist’s job is to empower and support your autonomy throughout the process. After you feel comfortable and understand the nature of what you are agreeing to participate in, your therapist will listen to the reasons that you are seeking therapy in more detail and will prompt you to share more of your history with thoughtful questions. They may help you set goals for your time together and discuss a plan about how to best address your concerns with the various methods that they are trained to use.

Your first session may hold enough space for you to release and process some difficult emotions, and could leave you feeling some relief. For some people, it might feel like they have just scratched the surface and that there is a lot to tackle in the coming weeks and months of therapy. Both experiences are totally normal and what you feel really depends on how you tend to cope as well what you are addressing in therapy. 

Typical therapy sessions are 50 minutes in length, unless you have booked a longer power session, and leave ten minutes for the therapist to document relevant information before their next session as well as book your next appointment. Your initial  intake session is usually 80 minutes in length in order to leave time for your informed consent process and questions, as well as some time to cover your history, set goals and move into some emotional processing if possible. Each client and therapist works differently and some clients find they prefer to do a shorter intake session. You may wish to discuss this with your prospective therapist before booking.

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SoulScape is mainly virtual clinic offering therapy to Ontario residents and therefore most sessions take place over the phone or by secure video platform. However, we do have clinicians who offer in-person therapy in various locations throughout Ontario. You have a choice about whether you would like phone, video or in person sessions (for those in areas where in person is offered). Please let us know if you have any questions about where your session will take place. Our administrative team will be happy to assist you.