From 2009 on wards, online counseling has been started for Engineering students.

Project Jason provides free online counseling for families of missing persons.

I could get online counseling to help cure it.

Online counseling has also been shown to be effective for clients who may have difficulty reaching appointments during normal business hours.

There is a split between within the counseling field on the validity of online counseling.

They are also able to offer online counseling for child-family relationships and assist victims of child sexual exploitation.

Some therapists and Internet addiction treatment centers offer online counseling, including at least one 12-step program for video game addicts, which is controversial.

Online counseling is the provision of professional mental health counseling services concerns via the Internet.

SCORE also operates an active online counseling initiative at www.score.org.

Online counseling is also filling the unmet need for clients located in areas traditionally under-served by traditional counselors.

Last month, for instance, Cyberdiet began selling personal online counseling by registered dietitians for about $80 a month.

Additionally, research is demonstrating that online counseling may be useful for disabled and rural people that traditionally under-utilize clinical services.

The growing body of research into online counseling has established the efficacy of online therapy with treatment outcomes at least equal to traditional in-office settings.

These suggested next steps may include free SBA online courses, direct access to online counseling or targeted links to appropriate resources.

Research from G.S. Stofle and J. suggests that online counseling would benefit people functioning at a moderately high level.

Through a spokeswoman, Capella said that "as part of the online counseling process, students are asked by C.F.S. whether they have an interest in debt consolidation."

In the most common computer-mediated form of counseling a person e-mails or chats online with a therapist [See online counseling].

Dr. Gugliemo and Dr. Sullivan, meanwhile, hope to work with insurance companies to find ways to cover online counseling through corporate employee assistance programs.

These access issues are solved with online counseling resources and result in clients receiving culturally or linguistically relevant treatment that they would not have otherwise been able to receive.

There is some research to suggest that online counseling is more effective because a client is at greater ease and feels less intimidated than they would in traditional settings.

Sponsored by the SBA, SCORE volunteers share their expertise through in-person and online counseling.

Client satisfaction surveys tend to demonstrate a high level of client satisfaction with online counseling, while the providers sometimes demonstrate lower satisfaction with distance methods.

This feature of the organization, better known as Ask SCORE, garnered more than 1.6 million hits and more than 3,000 online counseling cases within the first 90 days.

There are many such service providers all over the world providing online counseling to people about their career or conducting a psychometric test to know the persons aptitude as well as interests.

Some clients use online counseling in conjunction with traditional psychotherapy, and a growing number of clients are using online counseling as a complete replacement to traditional office visits.