This forum tends to move at a very asynchronous pace :-)

No doubt about it, online therapy can be helpful for some people. And for other people it's not the rigth choice of therapy. Here's an article you might find useful:

http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/myths.html

btw.... just to help Freud out a bit.... that's not the reason why Freud and other analysts sat behind their clients.