The Zoom Experience

Program 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.

Learning Objectives

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.

Interviews