Online Therapy In The Face Of The De-escalation Of Confinement
After the first impact that we have suffered as a society as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, we are in a moment in which we are moving towards progressive de-escalation, the phases, the “new normal”, the new affective codes, the first contacts and meetings with family and friends…
But We are prepared, as citizens, to return to our routines and our responsibilities just as we had conceived them before the state of alarm?
This doubt is conveyed to us by many of the patients that we have the privilege of accompanying at this time from the team that forms Centro TAP. We convey to them the need to continue building “today”, without anticipating “tomorrow” and without stopping at “yesterday”; Part of our objective with them is to provide them with tools to manage the uncertainty, fear, discomfort and anxiety that this crisis has produced or that has been enhanced by it.
The usefulness of online therapy in the pandemic crisis
Our therapeutic format continues to be exclusively online today, since we are strong defenders of progressive changes adjusted to the needs of our patients. We will return to an in-person format, but these almost three months have allowed us to have greater experimentation in telecare, online psychology or online therapy. During this time we have been able to value, together with our patients, the unquestionable value of this formula.
There are many benefits that we have found in online therapy from the practice of the current volume of appointments that we have experienced:
We suspect that this online format, for many professionals and for many patients, was an “aberration” in the intervention and psychological help processes themselves. Ignorance often leads us to prejudge processes and label them of insufficient and negative, but now that as a society we have experienced video calls, videoconferences, teleworking and online therapy we have valued their functionality, testifying with experimentation that the format works, that it has validity and reliability and that there is an improvement in our psychological state after each of the online sessions that have been maintained in the open therapy processes.
At Centro TAP we are going to continue betting on this intervention formula in our therapeutic processes, as well as in the online training actions that we have launched; Currently we have three in this format: Emotional Management, Emotional Intelligence for Families and Postpartum Emotional Support.
We are preparing a greater training offer with this formula, we want to continue betting on quality training service now online. We know that there are many free offers on the Internet that can initially “sate” the consumer’s need to learn, but we want to compete against this free offer with quality, rigor and professionalism. The team of professionals that makes up Centro TAP is highly qualified, offering a unbeatable learning experience.
As the Community of Madrid advances in its de-escalation phases, we will continue to combine our services in both formats both in person and online, we want to reach all the people who need us without limitations or restrictions of geography, mobility or temporary suitability.
