Online psychotherapy offers you professional help – flexible, location-independent and confidential.

effectiveness
Research confirms it: Online psychotherapy is just as effective as traditional in-person sessions. You receive the same sound, scientifically based therapy you would expect in a face-to-face setting. Numerous studies show a significant improvement in symptoms of depression, anxiety disorders, stress, and other mental health conditions through online formats. The video sessions take place in a secure, encrypted environment to ensure the necessary confidentiality and foster a trusting therapeutic relationship.

Advantages

• Maximum flexibility: Save on travel time and schedule appointments that fit perfectly into your work or family life – whether during your lunch break or in the evening.
• In case of illness: If they are unable to leave the house due to an illness.
• Location independence: Do you move frequently or travel a lot? Your therapy can simply continue. You are not tied to a specific location.
• High comfort: Conduct the sessions in your familiar, safe environment – ​​on your couch, in your home office, or in a quiet place of your choice. This can promote relaxation.
• Accessibility: Especially for people with physical limitations, mobility problems, or in rural areas, access to psychotherapy is considerably easier.
• Flexibility:No travel time, no waiting in a waiting room. You decide where your therapy room is.
• Lower inhibition threshold: The anonymity of one's own home can make it easier for some people to talk about sensitive topics and open up more quickly.




Contraindications


​Although online psychotherapy is a great asset for many people, there are situations in which it is not suitable or even contraindicated (not advisable).

Here are the main reasons and situations when online psychotherapy is typically used. not possible or only Advisable with reservations is:





• Acute psychoses:Especially when delusions or hallucinations are pronounced and reality testing is massively impaired.
• ​Severe addiction disorders: In cases of acute addiction requiring detoxification and/or a very closely monitored, personally controlled environment.
• ​Severe structural disorders: In cases of very severe personality disorders, especially when there is high instability or lack of impulse control, direct physical presence can be more stabilizing.
• ​Severe eating disorders:In cases of critical underweight (BMI below 15-16) that necessitates medical monitoring.
• Acute suicidal thoughts:When suicidal thoughts are very concrete, a plan exists, and/or the person feels they can no longer control themselves, immediate in-person care in a clinic or through an emergency service is necessary, as the geographical distance of online therapy makes immediate intervention difficult.
  
  

​Technical and spatial deficiencies

The framework conditions must be right for successful therapy:

• Inadequate technical equipment:If the internet connection keeps dropping, the audio/video quality is poor, or suitable hardware is not available.
• ​Lack of privacy:If the patient does not absolutely undisturbed and confidential spaceThis can be guaranteed (e.g., because other people are constantly in the room or listening).