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Telepsychology has successfully made its way into the practice of new generation of counsellors. Especially, with the pandemic acting as a catalyst in this. The studies have shown the gradual rise in intake of online counselling as a mode of providing services. Even though the effectiveness of online counselling is at a par with traditional mode of counselling. The psychotherapists and counsellors are given less treatment in this aspect of how to adopt to technology in-order-to provide counselling services. This study aimed to understand the influence of Acceptance and Use of Technology and perceived self-efficacy on the establishment of therapeutic alliance. A sample of 54 counsellors from Noida, were administered the scales UTAUT-T, CES, and WAI-SR-T. The data analysis that was undertaken was correlation and multiple regression. The study concludes that there is a positive correlation among the three variables and in multiple regression UTAUT-T was statistically significant in the influence of therapeutic alliance than Counselling self-efficacy.