Keeping Tabs: A Manifesto For Teletherapy

This manifesto was co-facilitated with Dr. Romayne Gad el Rab and co-created by a dozen teletherapists who gathered in New York City for the workshop “Keeping Tabs: A Workshop for Teletherapists” in May 2024. The workshop - sponsored by Data and Society and backed by this report by Livia Garofalo - provided a space for mental health workers and social science researchers to explore how teletherapy has altered the way clinicians treat their patients, make a living, and care for themselves. Therapeutic labor is no longer just about what happens “in the room” or “on the couch,” but increasingly about what happens through the screen, on an app, and even in text messages. With this major shift in mind and in motion, this two-hour workshop offered a meeting point for 21st-century clinicians — who often work virtually and remotely — to explore our needs and set expectations for the future of teletherapy.

Data and Society Interview

This Data and Society interview with Bandwidth Care founder Marcus Brittain Fleming discusses how therapists understand patients’ experiences with technology, the violence of pathologizing mental health, and therapists own use of technology in therapy.

Virtual Care Lab Rest Portal

Bandwidth teamed up with Virtual Care Lab community members to create a online portal and lead a guided event dedicated to practice rest, sleep and dream as relational activities. The live session and portal were created for the annual 4S Conference. The goal of the rest portal and live session: to encourage online rest as an antidote to the stress/strain of techno-capitalism during the COVID19 pandemic. Collaborators included Alice Yuan Zhang, Sara Victoria Suárez, Elenie Chung, hannah rubin, Lea Rose Sebastianis. Website design by Alice Yuan Zhang.

DOOM SCROLL SELF CARE

Doom Scroll Self Care is a mental health tech zine that provides tools for people to navigate the emotional toll of doom scrolling on social media platforms.

Made by Many Podcast with Kara Roselle

Episode 15 of the Made by Many Podcast features a conversation between Kara Roselle and Bandwidth Founder Marcus Brittain Fleming about online presence vs. being present online, the pitfalls of tech, and doom scrolling.