**3. Results**

#### *3.1. Sample Description*

A total of 77% of respondents were female, and 23.0% were male. They were M = 50.66 (SD = 9.65) years old, and while most of them were certified psychotherapists in Austria (91.2%), 8.8.% worked under supervision in the last part of their training to become psychotherapists. Regarding their professional experience, M was 10.61 years (SD = 9.50) (value was set to 0 for psychotherapists working under supervision). Overall, 46.1% of respondents practiced humanistic psychotherapy, 22.6% practiced psychodynamic psychotherapy, 20.7% belonged to the systemic orientation and 10.6% to the behavioural orientation (10.6%).

Most respondents worked in their private practice (96.8%), and 39.6% had gathered experience with remote psychotherapy before COVID-19. Most psychotherapists used psychotherapy via telephone (88.5%) or videoconferencing (76.5%). Psychotherapy via email was used by 22.6% of respondents, and 9.2% used chats or other digital media (2.8%). M = 11.21 (SD = 10.12) patients were switched from face-to-face psychotherapy to remote psychotherapy, and M = 9.62 (SD = 10.34) patients were switched from remote to face-to-face psychotherapy.
