Time Out New York: What It's Really Like To Try Online Therapy
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We are a country totally into figuring ourselves out. According to a 2013 survey by the University of Phoenix, 32 percent of Americans have sought counseling for mental health issues, and as in most things, New Yorkers are overachievers. There’s no city more synonymous with therapy than ours (case in point: The Sopranos, Prime, anything Woody Allen's ever done), and we have nearly 5,000 psychologists to prove it—that’s 46 percent of the entire state’s total. The thing we don’t have is time (or money), so in an age when busy New Yorkers can get groceries, cabs and hookups without looking up from our phones, why not therapy, too?