Hey guys and welcome to episode 162 of the Ocede stories

and podcast. to episode

I got back on several time guests

Dr. Stephen Philipson.

Stephen is a licensed clinical psychologist

who specializes in CBT for OCD. Now many of you will be familiar

from the past episodes but this time I got him on to talk about teletherapy.

That is doing therapy over a video call. This time I got him on to talk about teletherapy.

That is doing therapy over a video call,

where you can obviously see your therapist,

but you're doing it from wherever you are in the world,

in your home, a private meeting room,

wherever you've got privacy, that's where you can kind of

do it from from the comfort of that location as opposed to going to the clinician or therapist's

office or clinic. So basically I got him on because I know he does this a lot

with various people around the world and in the States and I wanted to get him on to talk about the, you know, is it worse than doing face-to-face therapy?

Is sometimes the belief that technology is nowhere near as good as kind of being in a room with someone.

So we kind of talk about that.

We talk about in what context is it useful.

I should say initially we talk about what it is in more detail. We talk about what to consider if you're

deciding to choose teleph therapy over face to face, what to consider before starting it, and who shouldn't do tele-therapy.

So there are reasons not to do it.

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