Training Title:
The Zoom Experience: Reflections on Exhaustion and Empathy

Clock Hours: 1

Objectives:
By the time you complete this course, you should be able to: • Understand how the experience of empathy differs teletherapy and in-person. • Learn about the neurology of empathy. • Recognize why teletherapy can be exhausting • Recognize Heinz Kohut’s contribution to the study of empathy. • Become aware of the importance of empathy is a data collector.

Description:
Therapists using Zoom and other forms of teletherapy are experiencing feelings of exhaustion. None of us expected we would be spending our time as therapists sitting at our computers or tablets or phones all day long. Certainly none of us could have expected we would not be able to work with our clients in-person – how much we would learn from the simple experience of being in the same room as our clients, and how much we would miss that. In this interview, Dr. Allen Siegel reflects on what he has learned in this therapeutic process and why. Keywords: digital therapy, Zoom, empathy, teletherapy

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