The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a new reality on the delivery of psychotherapeutic services. Therapists have had to rapidly adapt to telehealth therapy using various video conferencing technologies while working from spaces that were not necessarily designed for delivering therapy sessions. While COVID-19 continues to be present in therapists’ lives and shapes how they provide services, answering the question of whether to meet with clients in person again is a decision laden with complexity and ambivalence. In this mixed-method study, surveys with 169 therapists and interviews with 17 therapists were used to determine the factors that currently influence their attitudes toward resuming traditional in-person psychotherapy in light of COVID-19. We focused on the therapists’ personal and professional characteristics to assess their plans to continue with telepsychotherapy or return to a traditional psychotherapy setting. Our findings suggest that positive attitudes toward telepsychotherapy, the lack of an effective vaccine, clients’ satisfaction with telepsychotherapy, insurance reimbursement for telepsychotherapy, and negative attitudes toward wearing masks during sessions influenced therapists’ decisions on whether or not to return to traditional in-person psychotherapy in the age of COVID-19.

COVID-19 大流行迫使心理治疗服务的提供出现了新的现实。治疗师必须使用各种视频会议技术快速适应远程医疗治疗，同时在不一定设计用于提供治疗课程的空间工作。尽管 COVID-19 继续存在于治疗师的生活中并影响着他们提供服务的方式，但回答是否再次亲自与客户会面的问题是一个充满复杂性和矛盾心理的决定。在这项混合方法研究中，对 169 名治疗师的调查和对 17 名治疗师的访谈被用来确定目前影响他们根据 COVID-19 恢复传统面对面心理治疗的态度的因素。我们专注于治疗师的个人和专业特征，以评估他们继续进行远程心理治疗或返回传统心理治疗环境的计划。我们的研究结果表明，对远程心理治疗的积极态度、缺乏有效的疫苗、客户对远程心理治疗的满意度、远程心理治疗的保险报销以及在治疗期间对戴口罩的消极态度会影响治疗师对是否返回传统面对面治疗的决定COVID-19 时代的心理治疗。