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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1510383
Burnout and online consultation practice among psychotherapists
Provisionally accepted
Maria Valentina Cavarretta 1,2,3*
Hugues Pellerin 3
David Cohen 3,4 Ema Maurel 5
Salvatore Maria Anzalone 2
Isis Truck 2
Sonia Ingoglia 1- 1 University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- 2 Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
- 3 Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- 4 UMR7222 Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotiques (ISIR), Paris, Île-de-France, France
- 5 CY Cergy Paris Université, Cergy, Île-de-France, France
This study entitled "Burnout and Online Consultation Practice among Psychotherapists" aligns with the areas of interest of the journal Frontiers in Psychology -Psychology for Clinical Settings, addressing the topic of the telepsychology practice in different clinical settings. In the current landscape of crisis and pressure on the mental health system, there is an elevated risk of occupational stress among care providers. Psychotherapist burnout negatively affects the effectiveness of patient care and potentially leads to therapy failure. Our study aims to explore the link between teleconsultation and burnout in relation with environmental sensitivity. We conducted a survey of 95 French psychotherapists, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Highly Sensitive Person scale. The results suggest that teleconsultation may have specific utility in reducing burnout, particularly for psychotherapists with higher environmental sensitivity. The integration of digital health into standard practice may facilitate the expression of clinicians' skills and promote the therapeutic alliance with patients, especially for sensitive psychotherapists working in stimulating environments like public health services. . This manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by any other journal. We hope to contribute to the discussion on the development of innovative psychological practices in your esteemed journal.
Keywords: resources, supervision, Writing -review & editing. Hugues Pellerin: Data curation, Formal analysis, methodology, Writing -original draft. Isis Truck: Resources, Writing -review & editing. Maria Valentina Cavarretta: Conceptualization, investigation
Received: 12 Oct 2024; Accepted: 17 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cavarretta, Pellerin, Cohen, Maurel, Anzalone, Truck and Ingoglia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Maria Valentina Cavarretta, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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