Digital Counselor/ Online Therapy
Mental Health Therapy For several years now, British mental health services have struggled to keep up with the demand placed upon them, with some patients being placed on waiting lists of up to two years before seeing a therapist. Now, digital services like Big White Wall and a number of private counselors are bringing talking therapies into patients' homes via laptops, smartphones and tablets. It’s an oft-parroted statistic that one in four people will experience a mental health problem each year, and one that has been confirmed by the British mental health charity Mind. These issues also appear to be getting more frequent among people with major symptoms – the proportion of people with severe symptoms of common mental disorders in a given week has risen from 6.9% in 1993 to 9.3% in 2014 in the UK. However, mental health services also remain difficult to access, with the British Medical Association finding a startling rise in the number of patients sent outside their local area fo...