Table 1.

Key message for practitioners.

During the peak of the lockdown in Italy, 42.1% of psychotherapy treatments were interrupted. The following points are the factors we observed to limit the implementation of telepsychotherapy, followed by suggestions to help countries that are affected by the pandemic: Therapists’ lack of experience with telepsychotherapy. → Disseminate training programs on telepsychotherapy. Patient’s lack of a private space to access telepsychotherapy sessions. → Help and support patients to pragmatically access a private space. Not using video-conferencing to administer telepsychotherapy (video-conferencing was the only remote modality found to predict therapists’ higher satisfaction). → Therapists should use video-conferencing to deliver remote therapy, where possible. Therapists’ consideration of teletherapy as compatible with their theoretical orientation (those who did not report less satisfaction). → Relevant associations should seek to increase the acceptance of telepsychotherapy among both clinicians and the general public.