On Line Counselling talk to a full house at recent EAPA meeting
Dated: 23/06/2009
Kate Anthony, MSc, FBACP, provides consultancy services and training for practitioners wishing to use the Internet.
OnlineCounsellors.co.uk was established in 1999 in response to an increasing need for intelligent, objective and appropriate research, consultancy and training in the field of technology in counselling and psychotherapy. The Online Therapy Institute was established in 2008, and is a one-stop shop for information and training in all aspects of the use of technology in therapy. With her colleague DeeAnna Merz Nagel in the case of the Institute, the companies are run by Kate Anthony who is a therapist based in Scotland. She is the author of several articles on the use of email, bulletin boards, IRC, videoconferencing, stand-alone software and more radical innovative use of technology within therapeutic practice, such as virtual reality.
As a member and Fellow of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (www.bacp.co.uk), she developed and co-authored the Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP, 2001), and is author of the 2nd Edition Guidelines 2005 and the third edition in 2009. She presents at a national and international level at conferences and is co-editor with Dr Stephen Goss of Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy - A Practitioners Guide (Palgrave, 2003). She is also Past-President and Fellow of the International Society for Mental Health Online (www.ismho.org).
Books currently being written and edited by Kate and her colleague DeeAnna Merz Nagel are Therapy Online [a practical guide], Mental Health and the Impact of Technological Development, and the first book worldwide on Online Supervision. Please visit www.onlinetherapyinstitute.com for more information.
