November/December 2020 Unmasking Teletherapy: Temporary Expediency or New Normal?

This issue explores clinicians’ experiences and processes in transitioning to virtual therapy sessions, including the benefits and challenges they encounter along the way. Articles cover what one therapist learned about doing virtual therapy with trauma clients, the potential advantages of doing phone sessions in place of video chat, doing Emotionally Focused Therapy online with a couple, a personal account of restructuring a practice during the COVID pandemic, as well as how to offer coregulation to clients online using a polyvagal approach. Other pieces include a recollection of what worked with a difficult, provocative client, and an interview with an expert on narcissism about helping clients deal with the narcissists in their own lives.