Eskişehir Psychologist Ethem Tozbay Individual Counseling

Online individual counseling appears as a journey that people facing different problems at various periods of their lives take towards the need to search for answers to many questions such as how to act in the face of these situations, what the source of the problem is, what this situation means, and how to cope with this process, and the need to be well. The online psychologist, on the other hand, accompanies the client throughout this process and becomes their greatest guide on this journey.

One of the most important points in online individual counseling is the therapeutic relationship established based on trust between the client and the counselor. This relationship is actually one of the important factors determining how much efficiency the client will get from online counseling. The healthy progression of this bond between the client and the counselor is possible with mutual cooperation.

People may need online individual counseling for various reasons. Sometimes we may need online individual counseling for many reasons such as getting to know ourselves better, sometimes overcoming a problem, sometimes discovering our strengths and weaknesses. With online individual counseling, we improve our mental health while also learning to maintain this mental health. In summary, online individual counseling forms a support for individuals at every point of human life where help is needed.

While our relationship with our social life progresses in line with our choices at some points of life, sometimes it progresses outside our control. The points where we both have control and lose control are the critical times when we need online individual counseling. Chosen lonelinesses, forced separations, untimely loves constitute a part of our social life, and what will make these parts more livable is online individual counseling. Similarly, physical ailments that happen to us unexpectedly outside our control and responsibility initially take place in our lives merely as a physical ailment, but suddenly these ailments can turn into psychological ailments, and these psychological ailments can turn into new physical ailments, causing a vicious circle. What will break this cycle is professional support.

Although individual counseling has many goals, making clients feel mentally well, which is the main subject of psychological science and every counseling school, and stabilizing this good mood within possibilities constitute the main goal of online individual counseling. Online individual counseling aims for the person to gain self-confidence and realize their potential along with feeling better. In this way, the individual gets to know their strengths and weaknesses better and moves forward with more confident and healthy steps on the way to their personal goals.

Likewise, online individual counseling aims for people to reconsider their relationship styles in daily life and organize these relationship schemas. As a result of organizations and improvements, it also wants to increase the efficiency obtained from relationships. The goals of online individual counseling can be multiplied, but all goals serve a single subject: mental well-being. This mental well-being increases the quality of life while on the one hand providing us with the necessary motivation to look to the future with more hope.

First of all, online individual counseling starts with a trust-based cooperation established between the counselor and the client. In the first sessions, mostly the client's reason for applying to online counseling, their thoughts about the problem, current complaints, and expectations from online counseling are addressed and discussed. After all these interviews, the online psychologist plans the online counseling and determines the most suitable counseling method by identifying in which direction the online counseling will go and what the purpose of this counseling process is, in line with the information received from the client.

Although it varies according to the school the counselor themselves belong to and the counseling method they deem appropriate, mostly the sessions consist of 50-60 minute periods, and these interviews are held once or twice a week. These methods mostly consist of various methods such as cognitive-behavioral counseling, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), psychodynamic counseling, and existential counseling. How long the online counseling will last varies depending on the client's needs, how willing they are for change, and the scope of the problems. The client is never alone during this journey, and the online psychologist always accompanies them on this journey. For the end of this journey to lead to a beautiful place, the client needs to be active and willing in this process.