Online mental healthcare is here to stay: Here’s how to navigate your options and find the right clinician

Virtual access to mental healthcare is now very common, but figuring out how to choose a provider can be confusing. Alisa Zahoruiko/iStock via Getty Images Plus As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I’m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any mental health treatment before the COVID-19 pandemic: the stay-at-home mother without any childcare; the college student on a rural campus, many miles away from home or…