The paper offers a personal reflection on working for a charity offering psychotherapeutic help to adolescents in an inner London borough during the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper highlights the importance of considering the adolescent’s material circumstances together with their developmental needs when setting up remote work. It explores the unconscious meaning of remote contact and of the adolescent’s choice of a teletherapy modality, as well as the role of fantasy and the body in the absence of visual information. The paper also considers the impact remote working has had on the boundaries and dynamics of psychotherapy.