“Live each day where you’ll never be afraid of tomorrow or ashamed of yesterday.”

Hello and welcome! Thank you for stopping by Life Focus’s virtual therapy office. Many people find it easier to talk about personal issues without visual or voice connection, making the Internet a convenient option that assures exclusive privacy, as well as a practical vehicle for self-improvement.

Dr. Raymond E. Meadors (Licensed Clinical Psychologist) and Carol A. Meadors, M.A. (Licensed Professional Counselor) work together in offering eTherapy services via email. Carol and Raymond draw from proven reservoirs of knowledge—based on forty-years of mutually rewarding marriage and as many years in the mental health field. Collaboration between Carol and Raymond provides an added degree of gender diversity, accuracy, perspective, and insight in responding to client concerns—two professionals working together at no additional cost.

Medical and mental health services are adapting readily to the ease of web access, the valued privacy it affords, and the way web communication fits busy schedules.   eTherapy is quite helpful working with people in different settings, different locations, and different circumstances. Expenses associated with time and travel are eliminated.  You can send emails daily, weekly, or monthly, while reading/composing e-mails at breakfast . . . or at midnight eating left-over pizza.

Constant traveling?  Highly mobile?  Hectic lifestyle making scheduling in-office therapy sessions impossible?  Physical limitations which make leaving the home a challenge?  Hearing impaired?  Speech limitations?  Remote and under-served regions?  eTherapy may be the answer and Life Focus has a space reserved especially for you!

What is eTherapy?

eTherapy is therapeutic interaction over the Internet using people’s extensive access to email. It is a convenient, time-efficient, private, easily accessible, cost-effective way to access professionals from your own environment. eTherapy eliminates awkwardness associated with describing sensitive or emotional materials face-to-face.  It helps eliminate factors such as age, appearance, and bad breath, for example, because they are irrelevant in email exchanges. Online therapy with email is a therapeutic process involving writing, rather than face-to-face meetings.

Writing . . .

• about life’s challenges brings therapeutic release in-and-of itself (cathartic release).
• organizes distressed and unsettled emotions, while prompting you to focus on communicating feelings and emotions in clear written form.
• along with critical thinking, generates new ideas and potential solutions when you feel stuck.
• is similar to entries in a personal journal—journaling is a well-utilized therapeutic tool.

Correct grammar and spelling are not important, for it is more important to communicate your experience and needs.   You are encouraged to keep copies of emails submitted, as well as responses received in return. Unlike face-to-face psychotherapy, in which you typically remember only a fraction of what was said (perhaps 20%), with email there is 100% recall . . . because everything is written. This gives you a permanent account of written interactions, both of what you described, as well as therapists’ responses.

What Can the Client Expect?

You can expect high-focused assistance, free from distractions that often accompany face-to-face psychotherapy. Response to your emails includes feedback through informative comments, providing relevant references, and posing questions to facilitate exploration of problems more fully.  In addition, self-awareness, self-reflection, and potential solutions are added benefits of the process.

Fees are less than half the charges for most face-to-face sessions. Instead of waiting weeks, or longer, for an appointment, you will typically get an  email response within 24 to 48 working hours.

After having familiarized yourself with eTherapy’s distinctive features, you are now in a position to make an informed choice and decide if eTherapy is the right choice.  Just as the telephone seemed odd many years ago, eTherapy requires adjustment and acclimation. But with a little practice, the keyboard will become the link to your desired outcome. This is confirmed by hosts of individuals returning for successive sessions, after finding value in the help received through eTherapy.

 If you like the features that eTherapy offers, you are ready to launch . . .

PROCEED TO REGISTRATION AND FEE LINK. See you there!