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...daughter Megan got expelled from day care for ignoring teachers and fighting with other kids, Steele knew it was time to see a professional. But while Megan soon got help from a child psychiatrist, Steele, a single mom and owner of a dog-grooming business in Houston, found the therapists she saw to deal with her own stress either insincere or judgmental. When a friend suggested online therapy, Steele decided to give it a try. Now, each Tuesday night, she logs on to the website concernedcounseling.com for a 50-min. session in a private chat room, typing messages back...
...could the computer screen's cold glare ever replace a therapist's caring gaze? It may be hard to imagine, but for a growing number of people dissatisfied with traditional talk therapy, the convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes...
...Skokie, Ill., is the family Internet cop, making certain at least once a month to open all the files that have been downloaded by her two teenage sons--which she'll do, she says, "whether the boys are there or not. And they know it." Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist in Medfield, Mass., suggests that accompanying your child to a website he frequents is no different from "checking out a playground where your kids go, to see that it's safe, to see who hangs around there...
...There are now 15 million stepmothers in the U.S., most of them with part-time custody. While there are obviously stepmothers who love the role, many other women encounter problems. "You have to learn how to traverse a minefield of emotions--yours, your husband's and the kids'," says therapist Sue Patton Thoele, author of The Courage to Be a Stepmom...
...Hopefully this child will be able to play in the yard across the street," says Fantoro, who will be returning to her job as a massage therapist at University Health Services in August...