Since the types, as well as the issues of the very concept of psychosocial counseling are very extensive and branched, this paper will discuss only the types of psychosocial counseling regarding the means of maintaining the communication with the users. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to present a wide range of challenges, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the following types of psychosocial counseling: face to face counseling, telephone counseling and correspondence/internet counseling, while also trying to offer different perspectives and potential improvements. The paper will also deal with the ethical principles and dilemmas directly linked to the counselor as well as the user, which most often emerge in distance counseling, the umbrella term for telephone and internet counseling. Furthermore, the basis for differentiating the above-mentioned psychosocial counseling types is the ability or the inability to verbally or nonverbally communicate with the user, which is also a major disadvantage of telephone and internet counseling, with the exception of online video counseling, such as skype cunseling. Consequently, numerous authors in the paper discuss the inevitable impact of technology on the communication in psychosocial counseling, while also adressing the importance of further research and improvement of the existing types. Despite their issues and difficulties, every kind of psychosocial counseling has some sort of advantage. Therefore, experts such as social workers need to acknowledge the specifications of each type of psychosocial counseling regarding the means of maintaining the communication with the users in order to adapt them to the needs of the users in the best possible way.