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Leone Centre offers online counselling sessions, providing accessible, global support from your home. Whether you’re seeking couples therapy, family therapy, or individual therapy, our team of experienced therapists is available online via Zoom, allowing you to book your session wherever you may be.
With the convenience and flexibility of video conferencing platforms, you can access our counselling services online, including family, relationship, LGBTQI+ affirmative, psychosexual and CBT therapy, from anywhere.
You won’t have to worry about juggling your other commitments, finding a therapist near you, traffic, or public transport. All you need is a good internet connection and your own private space. Seeing a counsellor online is also helpful if you live outside of the UK, travel often, live in rural or remote areas, or have mobility issues or responsibilities that make it difficult to travel to in-person appointments.
The Leone Centre online therapists are available from morning to evening, seven days per week.
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About Online Therapy
Online therapy is professional mental health and relationship counselling delivered via a video call. In this digital era, mental health care should be as simple, accessible, and personalised as every other service. At Leone Centre, we facilitate this through our professional online therapy services, delivered by highly experienced, UK-based therapists via Zoom.
How It Helps
Online therapy sessions are highly effective in addressing a wide variety of issues, including:
- Mental and Emotional Health Counselling: Seeing a counsellor online provides a safe space to discuss your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with a trained professional. Through therapeutic techniques, you learn to manage symptoms of mental and emotional health conditions. Your therapist can also guide you in developing healthier coping mechanisms and improving your overall mental well-being.
- Relationship and Couples Therapy: Online therapy is an excellent resource if you’re experiencing relationship problems. Whether you’re facing communication difficulties, infidelity, recurring arguments, trust issues, or other relationship challenges, our trained therapists guide you towards improved mutual understanding and healthier interaction patterns. Attending psychotherapy online also allows for flexible scheduling, making it easier for two people to attend sessions, even if you’re in different locations.
- Improved Communication Skills: A significant part of mental health, couples counselling, and relationship therapy involves improving communication skills. Your therapist provides helpful tools to express your feelings and needs in relationships and other areas of your life.
- Increased Self-Awareness: Online mental health counselling and relationship therapy help you gain a deeper understanding of your emotional landscape, behaviours, and responses, which helps for personal growth and healthy relationships.
- Managing Conflict: An online individual and couples counsellor works to help you manage conflict with communication and acceptance of difference. Disagreements are an integral part of the human experience; learning that it is ok to be, feel and think differently from each other can simplify and enrich your personal and professional relationships.
- Privacy and Comfort: When discussing personal issues and relationship challenges, you may feel more comfortable in your own space, enabling you to open up more quickly and benefit more from the therapy process.
The Benefits
Online therapy is a flexible and accessible way to receive therapeutic support from the comfort of your own space. You can connect with a therapist through secure video sessions without needing to travel or waiting rooms. This option provides a safe and confidential environment to explore your concerns, work on personal growth, and address relationship challenges.
How it Works
Online therapy sessions are just as engaging and supportive as face-to-face sessions. You will connect with your online therapist through a secure video platform, ensuring privacy and confidentiality. During sessions with your online counsellor, you can expect the same professional and thoughtful approach as you would in an in-person session.
The Logistics
Online counselling simplifies accessing therapy and offers many benefits, including increased accessibility, convenience, comfort, and the capacity to connect with specialised therapists regardless of location.
As well as this, online counselling breaks down some of the barriers around traditionally delivered therapy, extending mental health support to people in remote areas or with mobility issues. It is also highly convenient for those with busy lives who can’t afford to lose the travel time to and from a counsellor. As well as increased flexibility with scheduling, Leone Centre online therapy sessions can be arranged outside typical office hours.
The Personal
Many people feel more comfortable sharing their experiences and feelings in their home’s familiar and secure environment. This can enhance the therapeutic process.
Like traditional in-person counselling, online therapy allows real-time interaction with your counsellor, enabling you to communicate better, build a therapeutic relationship, and receive immediate feedback and support. This real-time communication facilitates dynamic conversation and can significantly enhance the quality and immediacy of the therapeutic process.
The Research
There are many studies examining the efficacy of online therapy. One research article, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders in 2013, discussed a randomised controlled trial comparing face-to-face therapy with online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The study focused on patients with depression and found that both methods were equally effective. Notably, the benefits continued to be seen at a 3-month follow-up.
What to Expect
Your therapist will guide you through discussions about your concerns, helping you explore your emotions, thoughts, and behaviours.4 They will help you better understand yourself, your relationships, and the challenges you face.4 Whether you’re engaging in individual, couples, or family therapy, you will receive guidance to help you move forward and make changes.
- Individual Therapy: You will be able to work through personal concerns, whether related to mental health, self-esteem, or life transitions.
- Couples Therapy: Couples can focus on improving communication, resolving conflicts, and enhancing intimacy.
- Family Therapy: Families can explore how different dynamics impact their relationships and learn healthier ways to interact.
When to Consider Online Therapy
Online therapy can be beneficial at any stage of life. It can provide support when facing a wide range of challenges.
- Individuals: Anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, life transitions, and trauma.
- Couples: Communication breakdowns, trust issues, conflicts, infidelity, and relationship difficulties.
- Families: Relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, blended family issues, and major transitions affect the household dynamic.
FAQs
Your questions about online therapy answered:
How effective is online therapy?
Numerous studies have shown that online counselling sessions can be just as practical as face-to-face therapy for a wide range of mental health concerns. They offer the same professional care and confidentiality level, and can improve mental well-being. Yes, online therapy offers the advantage of easy therapist switching. If you feel that your current therapist is not the right fit for you, you can request a change.
Is online therapy secure and confidential?
Yes, reputable individual and marriage online therapy providers prioritise client confidentiality and implement strict security measures to protect your personal information. Choosing a licensed and reputable provider is crucial to ensure the highest level of privacy and security.
Can online therapy help with relationship issues?
Online therapy is a very practical option for addressing relationship problems. Trained relationship therapists guide couples or individuals through communication difficulties, trust issues, and other challenges, providing guidance and strategies to foster healthier and more fulfilling relationships.
Why Choose an Online Therapist with Leone Centre?
Our online psychotherapy service stands apart due to our online counsellors’ extensive experience, professional affiliations, and highest qualification standards. We offer an unparalleled commitment to confidentiality, convenience, and scheduling flexibility.
Types of Online Therapy
Online therapy is available for individuals, couples, and families. It encompasses a wide range of therapeutic approaches, including:
Online Relationship Counselling
Online relationship therapy can help resolve conflicts and improve relationships. Our trained therapists facilitate communication between individuals to help them better understand their needs and problems, gain insights into their relationships, manage conflict more effectively, and strengthen their connection.
Online Relationship Counselling
Online Family Therapy
The online systemic family therapeutic approach involves a therapist working with families online, typically through video calls. This form of therapy aims to improve communication, address problems, understand and handle challenging family situations (like death, physical or mental illness, or child and adolescent issues), and create a healthy functioning home environment.
By leveraging technology, online family therapy offers increased accessibility, flexibility, and convenience, enabling all family members to participate in the therapy process, regardless of their physical location.
Online Couples Therapy
This involves a professional relationship therapist facilitating couples counselling online sessions to help navigate relationship challenges, improve communication, and foster healthier relationships. Attending relationship counselling online in real time enables immediate feedback and ways to enhance the relationship.
Online Marriage Counselling
This form of counselling provides a confidential space for married couples to discuss their challenges, misunderstandings, and conflicts under the guidance of an experienced therapist.
The aim is to improve communication, deepen understanding, and foster healthier relationship dynamics. Online marriage counselling offers the flexibility to attend sessions from any location, providing ease of access and convenience. It maintains the same professional standards of care as traditional face-to-face therapy.
Online Divorce Counselling
Divorce therapy online provides a safe and unbiased environment to explore emotions such as grief, resentment, guilt, and anxiety while offering practical coping mechanisms for navigating the complexities of divorce. It aims to help individuals manage the changes, re-establish their identities, and lay the groundwork for healthier relationships in the future.
With convenience and adaptability, online divorce therapy allows clients to participate in sessions from any location, ensuring easy access while upholding the same privacy and professional standards as conventional in-person counselling.
Online Psychosexual Therapy
Online Psychosexual Counselling is facilitated by highly trained and experienced professionals who help individuals or couples explore their sexual lives, problems, preferences, attitudes, and issues within a safe, non-judgmental space. Whether addressing issues like low sexual desire, sexual arousal disorder, porn addiction, or erectile dysfunction or addressing emotional aspects tied to sexuality or illnesses, online psychosexual therapy offers practical strategies and insightful conversations.
The online psychosexual therapy model offers a distinct advantage – the freedom and comfort of engaging in these intimate discussions from your own private setting.
Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This evidence-based form of psychotherapy delivered digitally helps individuals manage negative thoughts and behaviours. It’s based on influencing our feelings and actions by changing harmful thought patterns. Online CBT, conducted via video calls, offers tools to challenge irrational thoughts and cultivate healthier responses.
This provides a flexible, accessible way to tackle issues like anxiety or stress right from your own home.
Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Online EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy online is aimed at helping individuals heal from the symptoms and emotional distress caused by traumatic life experiences. This innovative approach uses directed eye movements to aid in processing traumatic memories and changing how they are stored in the brain, reducing their impact and helping clients react more healthily in the future.
The online delivery of EMDR allows clients to engage in this powerful therapeutic process from the comfort and privacy of their homes, making it an accessible and convenient option for those seeking help to overcome past traumas.
Online Neurodiversity-affirmative Therapy (NAT)
This form of online therapy embraces and celebrates neurological diversity, supporting individuals who identify as neurodivergent – such as those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other neurological differences – from a location which feels safe and comfortable.
This therapeutic approach focuses on understanding the unique experiences, challenges, and strengths of neurodivergent individuals rather than trying to ‘fix’ them. It helps build self-esteem, develop coping strategies, and navigate social and professional environments in a way that respects and affirms their neurodiversity. This online therapy for neurodivergence is powerful for enhancing self-acceptance, resilience, and overall well-being.
Online Neurodiversity-affirmative Therapy
Online LGBTQI+ Affirmative Counselling
A type of therapy that affirms and supports people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-traditional gender identities and sexual orientations.
Conducted via digital platforms, our professional LGBTQI+ affirmative therapists recognise and respect each person’s unique experiences and provide a safe, non-judgmental space to explore issues such as identity, coming out, discrimination, relationships, and self-esteem. The affirming approach in this therapy helps individuals navigate societal biases, promotes self-acceptance, and fosters positive mental health outcomes.
Online LGBTQI+ Affirmative Counselling
Online Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Test
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a compelling personality test you can do online with a counsellor to identify your inherent personality type. Rooted in Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, the MBTI categorises individuals into 16 distinctive personality types based on four dichotomous pairs: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving.
This introspective self-report questionnaire is a fascinating tool often used in various contexts, including personal development, relationship counselling, and career planning, to help people better understand themselves and how they interact with the world.
Online Counselling and Therapy at Leone Centre
Step-by-step process:
- Choose your therapist
- Schedule your session
- Receive an email confirmation with your Zoom link for your session
- Prepare for your session by completing confidentiality forms
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Citations
Randomised controlled non-inferiority trial with 3-year follow-up of internet-delivered versus face-to-face group cognitive behavioural therapy for depression Science Direct
