An Exploratory Study of Client Perceptions of Internet Counseling and the Therapeutic Alliance

摘要: Online counseling is a growing area of clinical work with relatively little empirical evidence about the kind clients that use medium, advantages and disadvantages online counseling, satisfaction relationships treatment service. Sociodemographics were collected on 81 self-selected using self-reported therapeutic alliance assessed for comparison to past studies traditional face-to-face counseling. predominantly female, already regular Internet users, enjoyed convenience anonymity They satisfied their but not as who have undergone The main disadvantage, loss nonverbal information, was offset by advantage when sharing shameful personal information. Research limitations implications study are discussed.