Providing online therapy sessions has become the normal practice in today’s world, and SafeTalk allows you to integrate with a number of popular tools for doing virtual sessions. Doxy is a HIPAA compliant perfect solution for therapists to provide virtual therapy. Let’s look at how we can set up a virtual therapy rooms using Doxy in SafeTalk for online sessions:
Create a Doxy account
- Create a FREE Doxy account (https://doxy.me/sign-up?accountType=free)
- Copy your Doxy room link (under Welcome, Dr Weeks!), that looks like https://doxy.me/yournamehere
Create a Virtual Room in SafeTalk
- Login to your SafeTalk account
- From the sidebar go to Management & select the Rooms tab from the top navigation
- Click on the “Add New Room” button & select “Custom Online Room”
- (Optionally) You can also edit an existing room if you already have one
- Past your meeting link in the Room Link input & fill up the additional information such as Room Name & Notes
- Scroll all the way to bottom of the page & Save the room & you are done.
…and your virtual room is ready for use. You can add this room to you schedule or you can assign this room to your sessions.
Next, when booking a session with your clients, you will see the room listed under Location. Simply select the appropriate room, and your client will instantly receive details on where the session will take place.
Important
To ensure clients can book appointments seamlessly, make sure to update your Booking Schedule and assign your rooms. This will allow clients to select an available time and receive the correct session details automatically.
Notes
- The information of “Room Notes” will be shared with your SafeTalk client(s) prior to the call, feel free to add any instructions for your clients there, such as “You must have the camera on”, “Take the call in a place with least background noise”, “Join the call 5 minutes before the session”, etc
if you want to know how to setup Physical Rooms for in-person sessions on SafeTalk, check out this blog: https://safetalk.space/blog/how-to-add-manage-both-online-physical-rooms-on-safetalk/
