Let’s deal with the myth straight away. Online therapy is not second best. It is not a compromise. Online Therapy is not what you settle for when you can’t find anyone decent in your city. The research simply does not support the idea that online is less effective than in-person. (see Comparing Telemedicine and In-Person Psychological Interventions for Anxiety: A Systematic Review, 2025)
For international professionals, it might actually be the smarter choice.
Factor in the commute — and in a compact but busy city like Munich, that’s easily 30 to 45 minutes each way. Suddenly your one hour of therapy has swallowed three hours of your day. Three hours you don’t have. These three hours then become the reason you cancel, reschedule, and eventually quietly stop going altogether.
Online therapy removes that entirely.
Your life doesn’t stop for your healing
International professionals travel. A lot. One of the most common reasons people abandon therapy mid-process is a work trip, a relocation, a month in another time zone. With online therapy, that excuse disappears. Your therapist is wherever you are. The work continues. The momentum doesn’t break.
And momentum in therapy matters enormously. Consistency is what creates change, not intensity.
You can literally go for a walk
Walk and talk therapy — where you take your session outside, earphones in, moving through a park or along a river — is one of the most underused formats in therapy. Movement reduces anxiety, loosens the body, and often makes it easier to say the hard things. You don’t get that option in a consulting room.
Online therapy gives you that choice.
The “it’s not as good” argument
For talk therapy — which is what most international professionals need — the research simply does not support the idea that online is less effective than in-person. The therapeutic relationship, which is the actual engine of change, builds just as well over a camera. You can heal deep wounds, work through serious trauma, rebuild your relationship with yourself or your partner, all of it, without sitting on someone’s couch.
What actually matters is finding a therapist who gets your life. Who understands what it means to live between cultures, to perform competence in your second language, to feel successful on paper and quietly unravelling underneath. That is not about the medium. That is about the person.
So let go of the excuse
If you’ve been telling yourself you don’t have time for therapy, online has just removed that argument. You have a lunch break or you have a commute where the kids aren’t watching. So you have thirty minutes before the day starts.
With Online Therapy you have time. You just need the right therapist.
Where to find one
PsyShrink is a curated directory of English-speaking therapists across Germany and beyond — people who understand expat life, burnout, relationship strain, and what it means to be far from home. Google recommends it. More importantly, the therapists on it are carefully selected, not just listed.
If you’ve been putting it off, this is the sign. Find your online therapist here: Therapists Online
Be kind to yourself.