What Is Phone Sisters? Phone Sisters is a peer-to-peer emotional support community. It is a gift economy in which women exchange their loving attention and guidance with one another for mutual benefit. Phone Sisters isn't therapy and it isn't crisis line support either. It's women just like you who are looking for confidential support from others, who enjoy offering help as well, and who want something more than what a message board or chat room environment can provide. Phone Sisters are there for each other in a way that sometimes friends can't be. Each Phone Sister trades focused, time-limited support sessions with her Sisters. Each Sister knows she will always find an open heart and mind at the other end of the phone and that the person she is talking to wants to talk to her exclusively about what is going on in her life. After all, she's someone who also reaches out when she needs guidance or support. Sisters trade half hour sessions using any of 7 different peer counseling techniques, guidelines for which are taught within the community. These are: Compassionate Listening, Spiritual/Psychic Guidance, Christian Counseling, Goal Achievement Coaching, Emotional Clearing, Cognitive Inquiry, and Everyday Girl-talk. Session trading isn't back-and-forth, but more circular. For example, person A gives a session to person B, then person B gives a session to person C, who gives one to person A. This further increases the level of confidentiality within the system.

• Mutual Support - Give as much as you get.
• Open hearts and minds - As Phone Sisters we really listen, we really care, and we don't judge.
• Personal experience combined with knowledge - Each Phone Sister has access to our free on-line Peer Counselor Training program. Learn about Emotional Clearing, Compassionate Listening, Weight-loss Coaching, Everyday Girl-Talk and more. Select a Sister to talk to based on which techniques she posts in her profile and offer your favorite techniques to others.
• Self-care - Take responsibility for setting reasonable limits on your availability and letting others know when it's time for you to get off the phone. Each Sister agrees to make herself available for at least one 30 minute call each month. You don't have to accept every session request, so long as you are polite and considerate when declining. Our internal messaging system allows Sisters to confidentially pre-arrange talk time. You can also use the "Online" feature to see who's available right when you are and request a last-minute session. Also, the standard phone support session length is 30 minutes and Sisters must both verbally agree to go any longer than that.
• Confidentiality - The Phone Sister system is set-up to maintain a high level of confidentiality. For example, your phone number does not show in your profile and you do not need to show an email address in order to receive messages from other Sisters. Last names are also not stored anywhere in the system and location is only shown by country and state.

Are you someone who genuinely cares about the people around you? Do you take joy in seeing others grow? Do you wish you had a stronger emotional support network yourself? Are you at least 18 years of age or older? If you've answered yes to these questions, you're a perfect Phone Sister. So what are you waiting for?