Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work we've done in the past, and it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time.

Enjoy. So how about you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself

and what you do? I would love to. So my name is Laura Hess, and I reside in Salt Lake City,

Utah. I'm a couple therapist. So basically, I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist,

but I practice exclusively with couples. And I'm doing

something that's a little different from other therapists, and that I work with my couples entirely

through video conferencing. So I started off meeting with my couples in an office setting,

and I've been doing that for, oh gosh, maybe about seven or eight years. And then I moved. I

relocated from Seattle

to Salt Lake City, Utah, and I maintained my license in Seattle, and many of my clients wanted to

stick with me, and I don't know why, because, well, I think there's a lot of great therapists I could

have referred to, but they wanted continuity. And so I just started working with them through

video conferencing.

And eventually I found that I didn't have a difference of feeling between the couples that I was working with one-on-one in the office and those that I was seeing at a distance.

And so I just moved my entire practice online, which is really cool.

That is super cool.

Yeah, I think you're the first therapist I've talked to that has an online practice.

Yeah, it's pretty new.

I mean, we're kind of moving into this technology.

I mean, not kind of, but sometimes feels like marriage and family therapy.

They're a little slow moving with technology.

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