14: Getting Connected - Online Therapy for Addiction with Megan Peterson
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We are talking with Megan Peterson of 2nd Chance Counseling. 2nd Chance is an internet-based addiction treatment provider. They have therapists in every state working to make treatment accessible, flexible, and cost-effective. Duane and Megan talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this new treatment model, who it’s for, and how it came to be.
2nd Chance conducts therapy by video chat. The flexibility this offers creates new possibilities for treatment that is impossible for traditional outpatient clinics. Patients can communicate with their therapist earlier and later. Appointments can be any length the patient and therapist agree on. The flexibility and relative ease of meeting by video instead of in-person mean that appointments can often be set on shorter notice. Patients can utilize their therapist when difficulty arises, instead of waiting until the next scheduled appointment. Most of all, being able to access therapy without traveling eliminates the barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need. Digital communication is a bigger part of our culture than ever, and much of human connection today is digitally enabled.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Dwayne Austerland. I'm your host. This is episode 14. |
| 0:11.0 | Our guest today is Megan Peterson, the founder of Second Chance Counseling. |
| 0:17.0 | Now, Second Chance Counseling is a completely online digital platform for addiction |
| 0:24.0 | treatment. I think this is really exciting and I'm really looking forward to talking with her |
| 0:30.0 | about it and what she's created. I get very excited about how we are leveraging technology to bring |
| 0:36.3 | help to people who are struggling and may not |
| 0:39.3 | have access to care. So here you go. I hope you guys enjoy. And here's the episode. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to The Addicted Mind. We have a great guest today. Her name is |
| 0:53.6 | Megan Peterson. And she is the founder of |
| 0:57.3 | Second Chance Counseling.com. And she is here today to talk about teletherapy and online therapy |
| 1:05.1 | and all the progress that's being made in that area of mental health and addiction treatment. |
| 1:12.1 | Megan, you want to introduce yourself? |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:15.4 | I greatly appreciate it. |
| 1:17.2 | So I am Megan Peterson. |
| 1:18.7 | I am the founder of Second Chance Counseling. |
| 1:21.3 | We are an online addiction teletherapy company. |
| 1:25.2 | We're actually one of the first, we are, we're not one of. We are the first online addiction teletherapy company. We are, we are not one of, we are the first online addiction |
| 1:30.6 | teletherapy company where we have therapists that span all 50 states at this point that are able |
| 1:37.2 | and ready to deliver therapy to patients that need it. Wow, that is amazing. And I'm so glad to have |
| 1:43.3 | you on because this is technology |
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