TELETHERAPY IN CALIFORNIA & FLORIDA
Secure, confidential teletherapy for California and Florida adults, teens, and couples
Whatever brings you to therapy, you can heal and thrive, and we want to help.
How Does Teletherapy Work?
We use a safe and confidential video platform for all our video sessions, following the guidelines of HIPAA. Before each session, you'll get a special link to join a video chat. Simply click on the link and ensure you're in a private, quiet space with a good internet connection to talk for 50 minutes. Once we're connected, we'll continue just like we would in person.
Therapy newcomers welcome!
Teletherapy: Meeting Your Where You Are
You're a determined person who can handle a lot, but lately, it's been too much for you. Your anxiety is getting worse, work stress keeps piling up, and you feel disconnected from the people and things you love. Maybe something difficult or sad happened to you, and now you feel like things are strange and unfamiliar. Or maybe you're not happy with how things are going in your life. You might feel like you're always trying to catch up but can't reach where you want to be.
Reasons To Start Teletherapy
Decrease Your Anxiety
It makes sense to be anxious these days. Work, transit, the unpredictability of certain field, and geopolitical unrest really come at us from all angles. This can lead to chronic stress and high levels of stress hormones that effect our relationships and productivity. Getting anxiety under control can be life changing. We love doing therapy for lawyers, tech workers, entrepreneurs, and healthcare workers.
Improve Your Relationships
Work is work, but relationships are what give us meaning. When relationships are good, we feel great. When relationships are tense, uncertain, or full of conflict, we feel anxious and depressed. Therapy can help improve relationships, decrease isolation, and help you feel connected to deeper meaning in life.
Improve Your Communication
Finding words to explain feelings, manage workplace politics, and connect is harder than most people believe. Through teletherapy, we can revitalize your communication skills, ensuring you're heard, understood, and more connected in each conversation you have.
Through teletherapy, we support people in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and throughout California & Florida
Re-Ignite Your Relationships Through Gottman Method Couples Therapy Online
Do you want to lower conflict, improve communication, and feel closer to your partner? Our trained couples therapists can help you disrupt complex patterns and problems and teach you new tools to handle tension. Gottman Method Couples Therapy is a research backed, proven strategy to help couples reconnect, recommit, and restart the spark you felt when you met. We work with all couples, but have a special fondness for LGBT couples.
Heal Your Trauma Through Online EMDR
Trauma can disrupt sleep, work, relationships, and your feeling of calm and safety in the world. It can feel like you lost a part of yourself you won’t ever get back. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
Through the evidence-based practice of online EMDR therapy, our skilled trauma therapists can help disconnect reminders of your trauma from the physical and emotional reaction it brings. You can feel calm and safe again, even if what happened won’t ever be okay. The 8-phase model of online EMDR therapy emphasizes your safety and wellbeing and gives you tools to handle triggers before trauma processing begins.
Online EMDR has been proven to be effective. Schedule a consultation with one of our online EMDR therapists today.
Therapy For Teenagers In California & Florida
Our teen therapists are passionate about helping teens:
Learn healthy coping skills
Build confidence and self esteem
Manage emotions with more ease
Learn distress tolerance
Improve interpersonal effectiveness
… before your teen develops unhealthy or destructive coping habits. This will change the rest of their life in a big way.
Therapy is one of the greatest gifts you can give your teenager.
TELETHERAPY GIVES YOU…
Effectiveness: online therapy has been repeatedly proven in academic studies to be as effective as in-person therapy for most issues
Convenience: see your therapist without having to worry about travel, parking, and associated costs such as extending childcare or time away from work. You can see your therapist regardless of illness, mobility, weather, or traffic
Access to a specialist: depending on where you are, there may not be a therapist near you who specializes in what you want to work on
Privacy: online therapy offers access to a licensed professional without having to go into a counseling center or medical office
Deeper work: some people feel safer expressing emotion or discussing difficult topics online than in person, allowing for more effective and beneficial therapy​
What Does The Research Say About Teletherapy?
Research shows that teletherapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy for most people. Studies have found that it's effective for treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. One study found that teletherapy was as good as face-to-face therapy for panic disorder and agoraphobia. Another study found that it helped reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Teletherapy has some distinct advantages too. It's more convenient because you can do it from anywhere with an internet connection. Anecdotally, we’ve found it to be extremely beneficial for people engaging in trauma therapy. Being in the comfort of your home allows you to face difficult emotions with a greater sense of safety.
Common Questions About Teletherapy
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Unequivocally, yes. Research has demonstrated it is just as effective as in-person for most issues.
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Yes, we can and do give diagnoses. However, we give diagnoses in the context of comprehensive mental health care. We do not provide standalone assessment. If you would like to be assessed for a particular diagnosis, you would be better served by as assessment psychologist.
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Quite simply, any therapy where you feel a high level of connection and trust with your therapist works well. Their qualifications, while important, don’t matter as much as your feelings about them. In fact, research has show that 80% of the effectiveness of therapy can be attributed to the goodness of fit between client and therapist. Find someone you feel great about working with and it’s quite likely to help.
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Yes, it is! Research has proven over and over that there are no treatment outcome differences after accounting for quality of relationship with your therapist.
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We’ve got plenty of tips for teletherapy here to help you maximize your investment of time, energy, and money.
Tips For Teletherapy
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If at home, let household members know you won't be available for the next 50 minutes. We recommend sitting somewhere different than where you sit all day to make therapy feel separate and distinct. If there isn’t anywhere private in your house, consider sitting your car or going to a private local park.
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Close your email, Slack, iMessage, and other notification programs. They can really distract you from important conversations in therapy.
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Find a way to transition in and out of the session just as you would an office appointment. Some people find going for a short walk or taking a few minutes to do some deep breathing before and after the session maximizes the effects of our work together and makes it distinct from the rest of your day. This is especially true if you're doing sessions in your home office or workspace.
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If you have questions or thoughts about doing session via video, we encourage you to let me know. We are always open to feedback and want to make sure you feel your sessions are going well.
BENEFITS OF TELETHERAPY IN CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA
It's no secret that therapy can really help people struggling with mental health issues and relationship problems. However, not everyone has the time or resources to visit a therapist in person. Teletherapy offers all of the same benefits as traditional in-person therapy, but it is more convenient and accessible. Let's take a look at some of the benefits of teletherapy.
Convenience and Accessibility
One of the biggest benefits of teletherapy is that it is much more convenient and accessible than traditional in-person therapy. You can access teletherapy services from anywhere. All you need is a computer or mobile device and an internet connection. This makes teletherapy ideal for people who have busy schedules or who live in rural areas with limited access to mental health services.
Anonymity and Privacy
Another benefit of teletherapy is that it allows you to remain more private. You don't have to worry about anyone seeing you walking into a therapist's office.
Teletherapy Services in California and Florida
At Laurel Therapy Collective, we understand that everyone's journey to mental well-being is unique. We are here to support you with our personalized online therapy services. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, trauma, LGBTQ issues, couples' challenges, or even navigating burnout and stress for lawyers, holistic therapy, and the complexities of teenage years, our compassionate San Francisco and Los Angeles therapists also serve Santa Cruz and Florida and are ready to guide you. We prioritize creating a safe and inclusive space where your identity is affirmed, your experiences are valued, and your goals are empowered. You deserve to experience healing and find the happiness you deserve.