CRC, for instance, is promoting the program with its clients. The company believes demand for online counseling could explode. Demand from companies also could be strong. Many of those employees may need therapy. Online therapy also eliminates the need for patients to travel to meetings.
Some patients prefer online counseling.
But online, opening up to other group members was easy, she says, adding that she has been sober for four months and is now back at work. She says she now refers other AA members to eGetgoing's Web site, too. EGetgoing's eight-person sales force has been making sales presentations to corporations, insurance companies, federal agencies, and the courts. The aim is to do 1,000 presentations to potential clients this year. Terree Schmidt-Whelan, executive director of the Pierce County Alliance in Tacoma, Wash., is interested.