The Therapist’s Notebook for Systemic Teletherapy: Creative Interventions for Effective Online Therapy

Many therapeutic activities that engage clients in in-person therapy rooms are not obviously available via telehealth. Yet there are creative, practical, and easy ways to intervene in teletherapy that go beyond talk therapy.

The Therapist’s Notebook for Systemic Teletherapy: Creative Interventions for Effective Online Therapy provides systemic teletherapy activities and interventions for a variety of topics and presenting problems. Forty chapters are arranged into seven parts: setup and preparation, self of the therapist, children and adolescents, adults, intimate relationships, families, and training and supervision. Leading experts provide step-by-step guidelines on setup, instructions, processing, and suggestions for follow-up for interventions that are grounded within foundational therapy theories/models and evidence-based practice. This book explores both new intervention strategies and ways to adapt in-person therapy interventions for telehealth.

This book provides creative inspiration and practical advice for novice and experienced family therapists, clinical social workers, counselors, play therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others in related fields.

Rebecca A. Cobb, PhD, LMFT, is a clinical professor and for Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Couples and Family Therapy program. She also has her own Seattle-based private practice where she provides supervision as an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) approved supervisor and supervision mentoring to AAMFT approved supervisor candidates. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters, is a former president of the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT), and has won awards from AAMFT, WAMFT, and the National Council on Family Relations. When she isn’t working, she enjoys hot yoga, hosting dinner parties, hiking with Laney the Aussiedoodle, and spending time with her partner and the small humans that keep attempting to make her a morning person.

Christine Borst, PhD, LMFT, is an artist, therapist, and creative entrepreneur. She left her role as an assistant professor in family therapy to pursue a creative career, which includes, but is not limited to, writing and illustrating children’s books and tearing up old magazines to make pretty pictures. Her published books include, What is Coronavirus?, For the Love of Organs: A Quasi-Educational Collection of Poems, Us: An Introduction to Pronouns, and Drawing the Sun, a book about the journey to the authentic self. Additionally, she runs a private coaching practice, where she supports clients in connecting with their wild selves. When she isn’t having fun at work, she is hanging out in Colorado with her husband (the other Dr. Borst), her three wonderful children, and their two dogs, kitten, and hedgehog. You can find her on Instagram at @thechristineborst or at www.christineborst.com.