Objective To survey the cognition and current status of online psychological counsultants and to explore the problems in online psychological counseling.Method Using questionnaires of cluster and stochastic samplings to survey online psychological counsultants

to conduct study of the current status and evaluation of their job

and to retrospectively study the factors of therapeutic potentials.Results 5.0% of online psychological counsultants work above three years

90.0% of them working for free

70.9% of them unsure of the therapeutic potentials

which are affected by professional level of online psychological counsultants

limitations of online psychological counseling and ethical issues.Conclusion Most counsultants lack consulting ability

vistors have a false concept about online psychological counseling

and counseling theories and techniques are not suitable for network