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4 min

During the COVID-19 Lockdown, is it ok for trainee counsellors to offer email counselling?

There is no option at the moment to go out and see a counsellor in their office, so online counselling has surged. However, in lockdown

Chloe Foster

2 min

Email Counselling (part 4) - Misunderstandings in Email Counselling

In this 4-part series of blogs on email counselling we have explored the history of email counselling (part 1) and the issues of disinhib...

Chloe Foster

3 min

Email Counselling (part 3) - Boundaries in Email Counselling

Email counselling is notoriously more difficult for counsellors to set and keep to boundaries. Many counsellors I know report that they...

Chloe Foster

3 min

Email Counselling (part 2) - What is the Disinhibition Effect?

When meeting online, clients often feel able to be more open and are less inhibited - this is known as the “disinhibition effect”...

Chloe Foster

3 min

Email Counselling (part 1) - What is Email Counselling?

Email Counselling - unlike face-to-face, video or phone sessions - is all text based. Counsellors and clients never see each other’s faces..

Chloe Foster

3 min

A year in the life of Sussex Rainbow Counselling

As the New Year begins I have decided to write a summary of a year in the life of Sussex Rainbow Counselling. The year started with the fir

Chloe Foster

4 min

Is online counselling second best?

Traditionally, counselling has always taken place face to face (f2f), and so it seems the default way that counsellors work. Through my e...

Chloe Foster

4 min

Reflections of 2018 - the year of change

Hello, welcome to my new blog! One of my 2019 goals is to write a regular blog and be more active on my counselling practice’s social med...

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