Revisiting Therapy in the Time of Pandemic

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In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Foley returns for us to revisit the topic of doing therapy during a global pandemic. We talk about the benefits and challenges of online therapy- 10 months into this crisis. We also talk about whether therapists and clients will continue to stay online, retain physical space, or return to in-person work and how they can up their self-care. Issues related to client’s investment in online therapy and the impact of teletherapy on safety planning are also discussed.

Dr. Elizabeth Foley is a psychologist in private practice in Montreal at the Resilience clinic which she co-founded. She works with adults and older adolescents with a particular focus on anxiety, depression, trauma and OCD. She has a soft spot for working with mothers with perinatal mental health issues and people with personality disorders. Until 2018, Dr. Foley was the director of the cognitive behaviour therapy service at the Jewish General Hospital, where she still supervises psychology students and psychiatry residents one day per week. She is also an associate Member in the Department of Psychiatry and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University.

Highlights:
- Pandemic Purgatory
- Burnout for the Helpers
- Advantages and Difficulties with Online therapy
- Clients investment in online therapy
- Where clients take their calls
- Does online therapy increase safety risks
- Therapists giving up physical office space as they move entirely online
- How therapists can step up their self-care
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Dr. Elizabeth Foley’s Website https://resilienceclinic.ca/our-team/

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Resources
https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-therapists-we-need-therapy-ourselves-1528311

For help with coping with the COVID 19 crisis, here is a list of available resources in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/life/wellness/how-to-access-free-mental-health-and-emotional-support-during-the-covid-19-crisis-1.5519397
Any time of the day or night, you can dial 1-833-456-4566 (available in English and French) to reach the Crisis Services Canada, a national network of non-profit distress and crisis service centres.