Therapy’s Digital Disconnect

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From The RingerDigital Natives Struggle with Traditional Therapy. How to get help with anxiety or depression from a therapist who has never used a dating app?

A generation of therapists who grew up with the internet places a similar importance on the ability to navigate certain online terrain. “It’d be really hard to talk about dating dynamics with a therapist that had never used an app before,” said Chloe Carmichael, a clinical psychologist who runs a private practice in Manhattan. “It would be like trying to discuss a date in a bar or a nightclub with a therapist who had never been to a bar or a nightclub.”

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