The use of Telepsychology and the Internet is an alternative treatment whose main purpose is to reach people who have specific phobias but, due to several reasons (eg., living in far away places),they do not have access to a health center .

The main features of Telepsychology is the geographical separation between the person receiving the help and the person providing it, and the use of telecommunication technologies (eg. telephone, radio, television, computers, e-mail, chat, video-conferencing, the Internet, etc.)

We have designed a Telepsychology program ("WITHOUT FEAR ") that uses self-help procedures and can be completely self-administered via Internet for the treatment of phobia to small animals (spiders, cockroaches and mice). One of the most important features is that the program just allows the user to go one step ahead when he/she has achieved the previous one.

"WITHOUT FEAR" uses a virtual scenario for exposure tasks consisting on a kitchen where the user has to deal with different situations related to the feared animal.

The results so far show the usefulness of this program for the treatment of this specific phobia. "WITHOUT FEAR" can activate in participants high levels of anxiety during the sessions of exposure with VR, even without using the VR helmet, in a controlled study, where the results showed similar efficacy of this self-applied program and the same program applied by a therapist.

Future research lines are aimed at carrying out further controlled studies and monitoring data to confirm the efficacy and efficiency of this Telepsychology system as a therapeutic tool for treating small animal phobias.