ycombinator startup 7cupsoftea also offers professional talk therapy from licensed providers. My recommendation is unless you are absolutely terrified of talkin

ycombinator startup 7cupsoftea also offers professional talk therapy from licensed providers. My recommendation is unless you are absolutely terrified of talking to someone in person, don't get e-therapy. So much of therapy isn't from the words but from the transfer of emotion and affect. I think the client will get some level of relief just from typing things out, getting it "off their chest", but it's not the same thing as going to their office, having that exclusive space and time, and seeing and hearing your therapist's affect and reflection of your emotion. Not to mention allowing them to use their expertise in detecting indirect issues. For instance, consider an alcoholic in denial, goes to therapy because of difficulty holding down a job. A well-trained therapist could sniff out the alcoholism even if the client was in denial or never even considered that to be the source. A chat system shortcuts all of that for pure informational content. Emotional problems are seldom solved with Sherlock-esque revelations of information.