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Originally Posted by LostOnTheTrail
I'm not the OP, but...
My biggest gripe with telehealth is that you have connectivity, but not connection.
The emotions that are the essence of therapy are more easily accessed and tended to when the client and the therapist are in the same physical space.
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At the risk of derailing the thread even further, I want to say that this is not universal. It certainly isn't true for me. The distance and control of remote sessions allows me the space to work very meaningfully - being in the same room and being vulnerable with her is often too claustrophobic. I appreciate being in person for embodied and spatial work, but I don't need that every week. My work and her modality (Gestalt) is deeply relational and focussed on contact; this is not compromised by working online.