Joanna Poppink believes that effective eating disorder recovery work involves a real relationship with another person with both people in the same room at the same time.
Eating disorders manifest psychological, emotional and spiritual stress through the body. For therapy to have meaning and impact both therapist and client need to be physically in the same room with one another. Facial expressions, body language, sense of rising or falling energy, change in coloration, a wordless sense of one another all are part of human communication. All are necessary in the exchanges between client and therapist.
That said, Joanna will have a telephone therapy session with a client once she is established in her practice. A client may be ill or out of town or caught in a scheduling snafu. At such times the client can keep her appointment on the phone. Such telephone appointments are exceptional and can only be valid and helpful if the client has the majority of her experience with Joanna in person.
Joanna answers questions and writes articles through the internet, but does not do therapy in cyberspace.
