ABSTRACT
Trust online is obviously an important concern for psychologists who opt to counsel their clients on the Internet. Online counselling is no longer a therapy that will take place in the future but rather is a form of therapy currently being adopted by clients and therapists around the world. Online counselling has been de®ned by Manhal-Baugus (2001) as `the process of interacting with a therapist online in ongoing conversations over time when the client and counsellor are in separate or remote locations and utilize electronic means to communicate with each other' (p. 551). Although this de®nition might appear fairly straightforward, as will become evident in this chapter, there is a variety of ways in which online counselling might be conducted.
