Busy People Choose Online Counseling
We live in a fast-paced world with more things pulling us all directions than ever before. Maybe you’re one of those people or couples who keep saying, “We have to make time to get some counseling.” Yet, that time never comes. “We’re just too busy.”
As our online client base continues to grow, we’ve seen individuals and couples come up with creative ways to receive the counseling they’ve been wanting for a long time. Here are just a few of those:
“Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.”
proverbs 15:22 ESV
From two different locations
More often than not, a husband and wife are not in the same physical location when we meet online for counseling. It’s not uncommon that one of them is at home and the other at work. Or possibly both are at work. Although I vote that in-person counseling is ideal, online counseling is still pretty good if that’s all the time a couple has to work with. I recall one couple where the wife would literally pull her car off the highway wherever she was, then pull into a gas station or McDonald’s to get on her phone to meet with me and her husband. In another situation, the husband traveled several days each week for business. So, he would get on from his hotel room and the wife would communicate from her kitchen table at home.
Point #1: Don’t think you both have to be in the same physical location in order to do online couples counseling.
During your lunch hour at work
One of my most long-term clients recently began meeting with me for 30 minutes, 3-4 times a month. She has committed her lunch break on those days to work on herself and her emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She is a single woman in her forty’s, and has a fairly messy upbringing and early adult life. So she has much she wants to work on, but only a limited amount of financial resources to commit to professional counseling. In spite of working two jobs, it is pretty difficult for her to keep her head above water. So she and I worked out an arrangement that is agreeable and works well for both of us.
Point #2: Don’t let the availability of time or financial resources keep you from getting the help and support you need.
While in the pick-up line at your kids’ school
There’s nothing wrong with multi-tasking. Although I’m sure this statement is true, my life would not necessarily be a reflection of it. I’m pretty much a one-thing-at-a-time person. Moms though, are born with an internal multi-task gene that allows t hem to juggle multiple responsibilities all at the same time. I met with a single mom recently who was in her car in line at her child’s elementary school, waiting to pick up her child. While waiting on her child and creating a grocery list, she was meeting with me on FaceTime on her phone that was leaned up agains the speedometer on her dash panel. Sometimes all I could see was the ceiling. Other times the floor. But she was in the conversation the entire time.
Point #3: Don’t ever doubt a woman’s ability to multi-task counseling into her busy schedule.
Life Training offers online counseling via Zoom or FaceTime
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