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During COVID, I did a lot of walk-and-talk therapy. Some of it was being out in an open space with a client; parks were popular as a nearby, known safe space. Yet a lot of the walk-and-talk that I did was actually conducted with me indoors on my mobile, whilst my client excused themselves from a house full of inquisitive family and ‘walked the dog’. ‘Walking the dog’ became a euphemism for therapy, and so long as the weather wasn’t so blowy that the wind made hearing impossib

During COVID, I did a lot of walk-and-talk therapy. Some of it was being out in an open space with a client; parks were popular as a nearby, known safe space. Yet a lot of the walk-and-talk that I did was actually conducted with me indoors on my mobile, whilst my client excused themselves from a house full of inquisitive family and ‘walked the dog’. ‘Walking the dog’ became a euphemism for therapy, and so long as the weather wasn’t so blowy that the wind made hearing impossib

Resources The following websites are all valuable resources when working creatively with clients online. You should be aware, and clients should be made aware, that they are not created specifically for therapy, and are therefore NOT confidential. This should be kept in mind when suggesting their use and sharing. Creative Video Interventions Free Online Sand Tray - https://onlinesandtray.com Art Designed to share - https://www.pixilart.com Create Art & Share - https://creat

BACP refer regularly in their ‘Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) Training Curriculum’ and in their ‘Online and Phone Therapy Competency Framework’ to “supporting clients to engage with OPT safely and securely’’. One way to do this is to send clients pre-information that empowers them to decide if OPT is right for them. The following is an example: - Online and Phone Therapy (OPT), for short, is defined as any therapy offered via an internet connection, whether it be email, in