Online psychotherapy has proven to be effective for seniors as well other younger population of all ages as it made treatment more widely available at the finger tips and most common devices. Especially for seniors, the treatment became accessible for those living away from treatment centers, not wanting to drive long or even short distance unnecessarily. The treatment became easily accessible that many patients became less resistant to treatment, less pressure and bypassing stigma that still exist about such treatment. The ease and efficacy of treatment were encouraging to both patients and healthcare providers alike as productivity and improvement surged in such domain of platform of connection.

In my education and training, my focus was on understating and helping mostly seniors with rounded training of patients across the lifespan. Working with seniors, I managed to work on adjustment issues of retirement, marriages and divorces, empty nesting transitions, health impacted couples, and cognitive screening and differentiation of depression vs dementia. Grown children’s issues, as seniors’ job raising kids does not stop at times in old age, as in parents stepping in to help their grandchildren when the offspring face challenges of their own. Working across generations was rewarding in navigating such challenges, in light of adjusting to life and aging changes.

My approach to therapy is very simple, meeting patients at their level to facilitate processing of their distress. At times, distress in not present but challenges navigating changes and transitions with the hope of improving the quality of life and further insight and understanding of changes taking place. I find cognitive processing and cognitive-behavior therapy to be helpful and simple in addressing such changes. Understanding the circumstances and how we try to cope with that, with insight and commitment to behavioral changes, we can progress slightly easier. Reminisce approach to treatment with seniors often facilitates such understanding and alleviates the pressure of stagnation as one reflects on life-long achievements. At times, adjustment of the therapy approaches is necessary to meet patients at their level of stress or reflection and treatment is tailored o fit their needs.