Most of us might have felt like seeking professional mental health help at least once in our lives. But how many people end up taking that brave step of voluntarily asking for help? Unfortunately, very few. As a result of a plethora of factors stopping them from doing so.
One thing that’s worth mentioning, as being utilised to fight against these limitations in the mental healthcare field, is online consultations and therapies. Online psychotherapy in India has been slowly but surely emerging to provide maximum support and advantages to people in need, no matter the many obstacles that might have posed a problem to successful in-person appointments otherwise.
Even with the wider awareness about the importance of mental health and the need to normalise needing psychiatrist support, many are still not getting the aid they want or need.
Why is it so?
There are many factors that slow down the essential awareness, acceptance, and accessibility of mental health problems and services.
- Social Stigma : Some might think, with the increased but necessary attention that the mental health field has been receiving in recent times, stigma as a thing of the past when it comes to psychological issues. Sadly, that’s not the case. People still frown when they hear ‘depression’ or any other minor or major mental health issues, still ponder in wonder when they hear ‘psychologist’, and often scoff in ignorance when they hear somebody went to visit a mental health professional. All these seemingly little things are prevalent at large, making people hesitate when it comes to seeing a counsellor, psychologist, or psychiatrist.
- High Expenses : Most psychological sessions last for some time and are not that cheap, often making it harder for people to afford consultation and continue treatment.
- Lack of time : In today’s busy world, where people have one task or the other all the time, it can be quite a hassle to find time for lengthy therapy sessions and that too regularly. This can often deter employed individuals in various fields.
- Lack of accessibility : Mental healthcare facilities are not necessarily available in many locations, especially towards the rural, and less urbanised areas. This makes the reach of such needed help limited.
There can be many other factors contributing to the large gap between people who need help and people who do receive it. Professionals of this field work towards not only to provide help when needed but also to ensure their level best to avail the help as well.
Online Therapy
Online psychotherapy in India gives people the opportunity to access their therapist from the comforts of their own homes, at their convenient time, without having to worry about what others would say. Even though there may be cases where in-person interaction is necessary, sometimes therapists can suggest online therapy which is just as effective in most cases.
Some of the major benefits of online psychotherapy in India include:
- Accessibility : Online counselling and mental health services play a huge role in bridging the gap in accessibility due to many reasons like geographical location, family support, etc to these services to a large group of people. Sometimes, people with certain conditions like anxiety may have difficulty going outside and this can hinder their treatment programs. Online psychotherapy saves the day, quite literally, in such scenarios.
- Saves time : This gives the luxury of saving time spent in travelling to your therapist, waiting for your turn in the clinic/centre, etc which itself deletes one major factor that causes hesitation in especially working and student population for consultation -‘lack of time’.
- Relatively cheaper : In addition to the availability of certain free services, and comparatively cheaper fee rates, online psychotherapy in India also helps save money that would be spent on travelling.
- Stigma : As nobody other than the therapist and client needs to know about the appointments, there are lesser concerns of social stigma, society’s scrutiny and judgement.
- Wider range of services and options : Another noteworthy advantage of online psychotherapy is that it gives the person the opportunity to select from a wider range of therapists with varying specialisations, and therapeutic services. This is really ideal as not all therapists fit with the needs of all people.
And so goes the varying benefits of online therapy.
Hence, growth of online psychotherapy in India opens up a hopeful world of promising future for eliminating the disparities in treatment reception, availability and accessibility, and many other factors that could be an obstacle to ensuring the motto of ‘Mental Health for all’.
Why CoachForMind?
- Experienced Psychologists: We are a team of licensed RCI-registered clinical psychologists. Our team is well-experienced in various forms of therapy such as CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, and other therapeutic techniques in online psychotherapy in India.
- Personalized Approach: We are dedicated to treating our clients in the best-suited way, carefully curated as per the client’s needs, and adhering to one-on-one, client-centered therapy.
- Scientific Techniques: Our treatment plans and therapeutic methods are based on highly researched scientific findings such as CBT, DBT, and Narrative Therapy among many other online therapeutic techniques.
- Quality service: We at CoachForMind ensure quality services in our treatment regime and therapeutic approaches. Our clients hold most value to us, so we ground our techniques in empathy while maintaining professionalism.
For more information, please visit our website or contact us directly at coachformind@gmail.com
