If you're a therapist who's new to being an online therapist, it's understandable if you're slightly nervous about this different way of working. Perhaps you're wondering what essential information you might require.

The Online Therapist's Daily Checklist below is designed to help you on a day-to-day basis. I created it for myself, out of necessity. I've been working with therapy clients online for several years now, and from time to time there have been those mornings where the session is about to start, and I've wondered "What might I have forgotten?" That's why I created this simple daily checklist, to help keep me as well-prepared as possible. And I thought that I'd share it with you, to save you the effort of reinventing the wheel.

The night before

A bit of pre-planning can make things go as smoothly as possible. These might help:

• Plan for pre-heating the room you'll be working in
• Charge your laptop
• Check your diary to get an overview of tomorrow's schedule
• Charge your tablet or phone in case you need a backup device for some reason
• Check online banking to see who has paid and who still needs to pay