How are you maintaining client privacy, confidentiality and legislation requirements?
Ensure you are keeping adequate notes. Where are you storing them?
Have you considered the safety of the clients, or others (like children) in the scenario?
These are essential matters – and it depends where in the world, or state(s) you are practising as to what determines how you work online.
Generally, Skype is not recommended for online therapy – as it doesn’t have the right level of encryption and security settings expected of the private space that counselling is.
Skype also isn’t enough in these changing times that require adherence to data protection legislation throughout the world (Association for Counselling & Therapy Online, 2018).
Suggestions of appropriate software you can use are: Zoom, Doxy.Me and VSee – all three of these programs can be used for free for short periods.
Please try out these programs to see what works for you.
