Psychotherapy.net is an online video streaming site containing hundreds of in-depth training videos for students and professionals in the behavioral sciences. Resources include live sessions with psychotherapists, interviews, clinical observation videos, and training demonstrations.
The particular strength of Psychotherapy.net is its many therapy demonstrations, featuring counseling greats such as Irving Yalom, Marsha Linehan, Aaron Beck, Carl Rogers, and many others. These demonstrations are often annotated and include voice-over commentary from experts explaining why a therapist has taken a certain approach. These videos are incredibly valuable for all practitioners, but especially students looking to translate their classroom knowledge into competent practice with clients. If you want to watch the masters work, there is no better place to do it than Psychotherapy.net/
Psychotherapy.net offers access to over 350 videos, featuring a wide variety of theoretical approaches, therapeutic issues, client populations, and clinical contexts. All videos include a transcript and many include supplemental educational materials for classroom discussion or homework. For a brief tutorial of how to use these additional features of Psychotherapy.net, see the below video.
Symptom Media is another wonderful resource for students and professionals looking for demonstration and training videos. Through Symptom Media, Richmont students, staff, and faculty have access to hundreds of taped sessions covering a variety of clinical contexts, issues, and approaches.
Symptom Media is excellent for students looking to better understand the clinical presentations of various mental disorders. Of special use to future clinicians are the many video demonstrations of the various symptoms of clinical disorders taken from the DSM-5 TR and the ICD 10, as well as demonstrations of clinical assessment, case studies, and teletherapy. In contrast with Psychotherapy.net, Symptom Media videos are much more focused on teaching clinicians to identify and classify client behaviors, rather than demonstrating treatment methodologies.
All Symptom Media videos come with transcripts for easy review. In addition, Symptom Media also provides training materials, courses and activities for Continuing Education (CE) accredited by the APA, ACCME, ANCC, ASWB ACE, and AAPA. Some of these additional courses and materials may cost extra.
As needed, the Richmont Libraries provide access to a handful of counseling-related resources through Kanopy or Alexander Street. These videos may on occasion be assigned to you for viewing by your professors. In general, the Richmont Libraries do not offer access to many videos through these platforms, although you may occasionally interact with them during your coursework here.