The Limitations of Virtual Online Therapy in an African setting.
The emergence of Covid-19 and its regulations saw virtual online therapy gaining popularity in African countries and all over the world .Although it was already introduced; it was not widely used as compared to the time when the deadly pandemic swept across the globe. A general consensus amongst practitioners is that online therapy refers to psychotherapy or counselling services conducted over the internet which allows a client to connect with a licensed therapist or counsellor using any device that has an internet connection such as a computer , tablet or smartphone. The rapidly expanding field of online counselling has aroused much discussion among clinicians who are quick to compare in-person sessions with the online variations. However, the shift from in-person to online practice is not just a matter of duplicating therapist/client face-to-face transactions through a computer screen. Rather, it is analogous to the difference between literature and the oral tradition. Alt...
