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Learn the skills and knowledge you will need to work safely and ethically with your clients using online technology such as video, email text and the telephone. This book acts as a guide, walking you through the theory, ethics, law and practice of adding online and telephone counselling to your practice. Includes FREE bonus online companion course, ‘Introduction to Online and Telephone Counselling’, to underpin and strengthen your learning Includes the paperwork templates you will need for your practice online Packed with concise, up-to-date information on how to pivot from face-to-face counselling to working online or via telephone. Who is this book for? This book is ideal for qualified therapists who wish to work safely and ethically online with their clients. This book can be used as a textbook for students of counselling who are on a formal counselling course and can be quoted and cited in assignments. Online and telephone therapy is experiencing a period of rapid growth. More and more, clients are trusting that remote contact is a way to overcome a range of issues, and the evidence suggests they are finding the online process convenient and effective. Why buy this book? Through their training company Counselling Tutor, the authors of this book, Rory Lees-Oakes and Kenneth Kelly have trained over 10,000 counsellors to work safely and ethically using online and telephone counselling. Join the digital revolution and gain the skills, confidence and competence to work safely and ethically with your clients online and via telephone.