Telephone counseling

This article is about psychological therapy delivered via telephone. For emergency phone services for mental health crisis or suicidal thoughts, see Crisis hotline.
Telephone counseling
Other namestelephone-based therapy, telephone-delivered therapy, telephone therapy, telephone psychotherapy, telephone-administered psychotherapy

Telephone counseling (also known as telephone therapy, telephone-based or telephone-delivered psychotherapy) refers to any type of psychological therapy performed over the telephone. Similarly to face-to-face therapy, telephone counseling can take the form of individual, couple or group psychotherapy. Along with online counseling, it is a type of telepsychology service.