Working with Addictions Online: There’s Always More Than One Elephant

NAVIGATING VIRTUAL COUNSELLING IN 2024

Four years on from the start of the pandemic, new research and new learnings provide us with direction for doing video counselling better.

Discoveries in fields as diverse as neuroscience and social psychology give us clues about how we process information and (re)act in online environments. Lawrence Murphy, founder of the first online clinical practice, will dive deep into these discoveries and the implications for the ethics and clinical practice of video work with clients struggling with addiction.

What you’ll walk away with:

• state-of-the-art skills and techniques to enhance your clinical work in video
• an understanding of therapy-relevant discoveries in neuroscience
• strategies for applying these discoveries when working with clients struggling with recovery
• awareness of ways in which the post-covid environment is impacting drug use and abuse the ability to apply approaches to self-care specific to the online environment

We are aware that addictions is a specific topic and that there is the need to learn the basics of virtual counselling as well – so we are including another foundational course on video counselling at no charge for anyone who signs up for our upcoming workshop.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, established in 1994. In 1998 he co-authored the first ethical code for online counselling. Mr. Murphy and his colleagues publish regularly in the academic literature, including their seminal 1998 work When Writing Helps to Heal: Email as Therapy, which has been cited more than 350 times. Therapy Online delivers two levels of training in cybercounselling and licenses online therapy. Since the pandemic began, Mr. Murphy has delivered more than 90 half-day trainings to a total of more than 10,000 mental health professionals across Canada.