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In this short video we want to talk to you a little bit about how we at Above and Beyond
counseling center do Christian counseling online. We have clients all over the country
and all over the world literally where we minister to them. Now the obvious question
someone might ask is why would somebody need or want to participate in doing Christian
counseling online. Several reasons. First of all they may be in a remote location even
with people locally sometimes because of time constraints and the price of gas the way it
has been, just doing it over the internet can save money. It can be financially beneficial
that way. Possibly depending on where you are located there may not be confident Christian
counseling available. And then finally maybe there is a special need that you have. Maybe
its deliverance ministry that is part of what we do. Maybe there's something special you
need for your children or you family that you are not able to get locally and any and
all of those would be good reasons to do counseling over the internet.
How does it work? The way it is set up is what you would need is a computer obviously
and a high speed internet connection that includes a webcam and or a microphone. So
you need a video camera and a microphone. And typically web cams have those built in.
very inexpensive. In out ministry we use Skype for those who are familiar and use Skype.
But even for those who don’t we use a web conferencing tool and its automatic and basically
we send you an invitation for a link, it goes out and finds your equipment. Gets you set
up basically automatically. It’s free and it works very, very well. And basically what
it involves and allows us to do is face to face interaction plus screen sharing because
we are able to teach you using things on PowerPoint. So we are able to share things that way.
I want to give you now a brief demonstration of how that capability works. Great I wanted
to give you a sense of what the internet counseling sessions like and how they are run and what
you're going to see. We use two vehicles to do counseling over the internet with clients
worldwide. And one of them is Skype; you can see the little icon down here. In the lower
corner of the screen. We use Skype. So if you are a Skype user that’s great. We can
use that quite well but we also use another web conferencing package right now that does
not require you to be a Skype user. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to download
anything to your computer. Basically if you have a high speed connection and a webcam
and a microphone, you click on the meeting link we send you. it goes out and finds it,
set it up, runs it, tests it and make sure that everything is fine. And it works very,
very well for us; like I say we use this all over the world.
The next one I am going to show you today is this package were using right now. And
basically when we send you out a meeting invitation. This is basically what you are going to see.
Right now I don’t have anybody that I am counseling with but my picture would be here
and your picture would be up here. This is what you would see on your screen essentially.
And when it comes up like this I'm able to change it so we can do like a primarily video
chat. And this is how a lot of the interaction happens. Talking just like this. But we also
do presentations. And there are teaching that we do over PowerPoint and I want to share
those and show those to you. So when we do that I set this up here. Click
on this link and it will come up here in a moment. And it will share my desktop. And
this basically what we see here. We these presentations and walk through it. We can
do it over the web and YouTube things that we show. but this we can walk through a PowerPoint
presentation with you. this is exactly what you will see. And I can walk through this
and explain this because it is a very helpful teaching tool for us.
But when that is all done then we can come back and basically to the web conferencing
tool and basically come back just to the screen you see. It interacts and goes back and forth
and that’s really how simple it is. You'll see me like this. I’ll see you. we can do
this with up to five people at a time. So it certainly can be done with two people in
different parts of the world at the same time. It works very, very well. We do counseling
this way. We do deliverance ministry this way. And it’s a nice alternative to being
in the office. So I just wanted to give you a flavor for that. Hope that was helpful.