When you experience a mental health crisis, you may acknowledge your need for professional counseling. You want to talk out your crisis with a trusted mental health professional and learn skills to help you recover from or manage your anxiety, depression, and other symptoms. However, you also might find it inconvenient and impractical to attend in-person sessions with a therapist. Instead, you may opt for telehealth therapy sessions with your provider.

Convenience 

When you utilize telehealth therapy for your mental health, you may get a greater level of convenience. You might be unable to drive yourself to and from therapy sessions every week. You also may want to avoid asking anyone to take you to these appointments.

Instead, you can use telehealth therapy services that you can access and use from the privacy of your own home. You can use your laptop, desktop computer, or mobile phone to meet virtually with your therapist. You avoid having to leave your house and drive to in-person sessions.

Privacy

Further, you might want to avoid advertising the fact you are in therapy to others. You might worry about running into someone you know at the doctor's office. You also want to avoid having to explain to anyone why you are utilizing these services.

With telehealth therapy, you get a higher level of discretion and privacy that might evade you if you were to go to in-person sessions. You can conceal the fact you are in therapy from people you do not want to know. You also avoid the worry of running into someone you know and having to explain why you are at the therapist's office.

Avoiding Sickness

Finally, you may want to avoid contracting viruses and getting sick at a therapist's office. You worry about contracting the flu or the COVID-19 virus. You also may fear coming down with a worse infection, such as pneumonia, because of compromised immunity.

Instead of risking coming into contact with viruses that can make you severely ill, you can meet with your therapist through telehealth therapy sessions. You can remain safe at home and protect your health during the cold and flu season.

Telehealth therapy services can offer a number of benefits when you want to resolve mental health issues. You get the convenience of meeting with your therapist virtually. You also get a higher level of privacy and may avoid coming into contact with various illnesses.

Contact a local telehealth therapy service, such as Scottsdale Therapy PLLC, to learn more.