Men and women aged 47 or younger, with a good education, that draw a psychological problem for two years and admit to have problems with the couple, suffering domestic violence, anxiety, depression or simply need a second professional opinion. This is the profile of the majority of users of counseling services online here from Spain.

“Although an increasing number of such services and research devoted to analyzing the results, it is not so easy to find studies describing what kind of people use. This information is useful to improve these sites for help” , comments on Miguel Angel Vallejo elmundo.es couple, Faculty of Psychology at the National Open University (UNED) and director of a research that has been established which people seek psychological counseling through the Internet.

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