{"id":584916,"date":"2026-08-30T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584916\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:24:08","slug":"im-a-mental-health-expert-heres-how-i-would-search-for-an-online-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584916\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a mental health expert. Here\u2019s how I would search for an online therapist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AFLOWJXW75DIRHARMPUNV6MLLE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As a <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.umassmed.edu\/display\/23975512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mental health nurse practitioner<\/a> who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I\u2019m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any mental health treatment before the covid-19 pandemic: the stay-at-home mother without any child care; the college student on a rural campus, many miles from home or a clinic; the middle-aged man who is finally ready for help \u2014 but not ready to be seen by a neighbor in the waiting room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I\u2019m often struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-584916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}