So Bob, as you know, we usually come on the air here and answer emails, let's do the same today.

What do you say, Bob? It's very consistent.

This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and

a professor. Who are you, Bob? I am a therapist in practice here in Seattle and you and me are

old friends from school. So this first email is about teletherapy and this is a question from

Deserving Listeners Zach from Discord. They write, I'm writing a research paper and I'm finding out

that by and large, most people prefer online therapy sessions over in-person therapy sessions.

Many people are saying that they want the online sessions to continue after lockdown.

I wonder why this might be and what your experiences are. Bob, what do you think?

Before COVID, I didn't think teletherapy was going to be worth a damn. But what I'm discovering is

that it actually works pretty well. I think it works as well as in-person counseling.

And when COVID ends, I'm going to go back to my office and see people face to face.

And I bet that there's a significant number of them that will continue to see me online,

either for, you know, practical reasons like transportation and they can't make it happen,

you know, they can't leave work or something. Or maybe because they have this kind of preference.

Though I didn't know that people actually had that preference.

Yeah. My attitude is the same as yours that I am not a fan of, particularly Zoom therapy.

There's something about Zoom and video conferencing that just really doesn't do it for me.

I've been doing phone therapy for decades. I mean, did you do occasional phone sessions?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And do you do phone or video with your clients?

Video almost exclusively. If somebody wanted to phone, I wouldn't grumble about it.

And videos okay with you? Yeah. I don't like video for some reason. Really?

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