# Internet Therapy Recommendations

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769 "2019-10-14T23:43:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769/1 "2019-10-14T23:43:12Z")

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I’m looking for internet-based therapy sessions for me and my mom to help work on our relationship, which was good when I was a kid and young adult and has been pretty strained the last few years.

We live ~500 miles apart, so it’d pretty much have to be a phone/internet kind of thing at distance.

Anyone with experience finding a therapist for something like that?

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769/2 "2019-10-14T23:47:19Z")

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I don’t have an answer for you, but I’m thinking it’ll be easier to find a local therapist that you can physically visit and have your mom on skype/facetime.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769/3 "2019-10-14T23:47:41Z")

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I have no personal experience with it whatsoever, but a podcast I listen to always begins with an ad for something called “Talkspace” that I believe may be exactly what you are looking for:

> **[Talkspace - #1 Rated Online Therapy, 1 Million+ Users](https://www.talkspace.com/)**
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> Connect with a licensed therapist from the palm of your hand, and experience the most convenient, affordable way to improve your mental health. Start today.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-therapy-recommendations/841769/4 "2019-10-15T01:51:58Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I don’t have an answer for you, but I’m thinking it’ll be easier to find a local therapist that you can physically visit and have your mom on skype/facetime.

I thought about that too, but my worry is that meetings/conversations where some people are physically together and others are teleconferenced in are always unbalanced. It’s just hard to have a co-equal conversation where some people are right there and others are heads on a screen.

**DCnDC** , thanks, I found that one too. I am hoping for recommendations from someone who’s used such a service. I can find a number of things with google, but have no good way to evaluate them.