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Online Mindfulness Psychotherapist for Overcoming Agoraphobia without using antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications
Online Mindfulness Psychotherapist for Overcoming Agoraphobia without using antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications
Talk to a Psychotherapist Online via Skype for highly effective online help and mindfulness-based therapy for Agoraphobia, Chronic Anxiety, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety.
Email me to find out more about this online counseling service and organize an online Skype counseling session with me. Inquiries welcome!
Online Therapy For Anxiety & Depression and Agoraphobia
Online Therapy For Anxiety & Depression and Agoraphobia
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I am a mindfulness therapist based in Boulder Colorado, and I offer online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression, for OCD, for addictions and also for PTSD, which is something I'm particularly interested in.
So people ask me all the time does online therapy work? Is online therapy an effective way of getting professional help to manage anxiety and depression? And my answer is that yes, online therapy is very effective. Online therapy does work.
But you have to look at a couple of factors. The first is that online therapy works best if it also includes some form of video interface like Skype.
Being able to see each other is very important for effective communication and for effective psychotherapy. You have to be able to see each other as well as speak to each other in real time. So if you can use Skype to talk to your therapist then that therapy is going to be, practically, just as effective as meeting in person with a therapist.
Some forms of psychotherapy may be focused around developing a very close relationship or perhaps some form of Hands-On intervention like Body-centered therapies may not be effective when delivered online. But for most of the forms of talking therapy, certainly, therapy via Skype is just as effective as meeting in person.
You have to also remember that you can't get a prescription medications through online therapy sessions, but that's fine. From my point of view I don't advocates medications for the treatment of anxiety or depression because they don't really address the underlying cause of your emotional suffering.
So in the online therapy sessions that I offer, we look very closely at the underlying psychological process that is causing your anxiety or depression. You look at the process that has become habitual, that has becomes stuck and that continues to generate your emotional suffering.
Mindfulness Therapy is extremely effective for doing this because it's essentially a way of learning how to investigate your own mind, how to investigate your thoughts and emotions, without becoming lost in them. And so the first stage in Mindfulness Therapy is this, of learning how to overcome the habit of Reactive Identification. This is the common process where we become lost in our thoughts, where we become overwhelmed by our emotional reactions and we basically lose perspective and lose the element of choice in how the emotional reactivity affects us.
So being able to overcome reactive identification is a very important stage in any kind of psychotherapy, and it is the central focus of Mindfulness Therapy.
I will teach you how to overcome reactive identification so that you can effectively be conscious of your emotions or thoughts or memories or trauma, or in the case of PTSD, without becoming identified. So you can sit as the Observer and look at your own emotions and thoughts.
When you can do this, when you can develop this level of conscious observation, then you can begin to exercise choice and begin to help change those patterns of emotional reactivity.
So anxiety and depression and addiction and OCD and also traumatic emotional reactivity are, at the end of the day, psychological habits, and these habits can be changed by bringing consciousness to bear on them.
So if you like to learn more about how to work with your emotions and reactive thought patterns using mindfulness then please email me and let's schedule a therapy session using Skype so you can see for yourself just how effective online therapy can be and for helping you overcome anxiety and depression or any other form of emotional suffering.
So please email me and let's get started. I see clients throughout North America and Western Europe and the UK and as far away as Australia. All you need is an internet connection and Skype and PayPal to make secure online payments for each session. So please contact me and let's get started. Thank you.
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Online Therapy over Skype for treating Agoraphobia
Online Therapy over Skype for treating Agoraphobia
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist specializing in online therapy and I offer online therapy for agoraphobia.
So, agoraphobia online therapy is very effective for people who really can't get out of the house to work with a therapist in their local area.
So, during these sessions that I offer via Skype, I focus on teaching you very effective mindfulness-based methods of working with your anxiety and panic attacks.
The real important thing to understand here is that Agoraphobia is really a psychological habit. I prefer to call it a habit rather than a disorder because when you start labeling these psychological states as disorders that tends to reinforce your sense of helplessness as a victim, and we don't want to do that.
The actual mechanism that generates the anxiety and panic attacks of agoraphobia is a habit and habits can be changed. So during online agoraphobia therapy sessions I will guide you in how to work with the underlying emotions and thought patterns that supports that anxiety.
We do this in a surprising way. We actually learn to make friends with our fear. This is very, very important. You can't change the belief when it has a very strong emotional charge based on fear. No amount of rational arguments or persuasion that you don't need to feel this way is going to change that anxiety. You have to learn to work with the anxiety directly. And that's what you do during mindfulness therapy. We actually learn to meditate on your own fear as you imagine walking or traveling out of your safe zone.
So, we set up a series of challenges, exposures, if you like, where you choose to do a particularly difficult exercise but one that you can manage. But then we prepare for this by playing it through in the mind it might be walking around the block or just simply leaving the house for a few minutes, whatever it might be.
We design a challenge and then we prepare for it by meditating on it. We play it through in the mind and then we look for the fear reactions and we look for the thought reactions that feed that fear and then we develop a mindfulness-based relationship with these emotions and thoughts, and that relationship is based on friendliness.
You learn, essentially, to sit with your emotions and thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them, without losing your balance. This is central. This is a central part of mindfulness training, that you can be with your thoughts and emotions but not be overwhelmed by them. When you can do dance then you start to break the habits that get reinforced by re-traumatizing, essentially, that fear.
So, we learn to sit with our emotions without becoming reactive and without identifying with those emotions. We learn to develop this other side of our identity, which we call the True Self, the Observer Mind, that which can be conscious of thoughts and emotions but is not identified with thoughts or emotions.
We then work with those emotions and begin to treat them very much as you might treat a child that's afraid. we learn to comfort the emotion itself, the fear. you build a strong relationship with it, rather like a parent to a child. And in this way the fear reaction, that we might call the Little Self is able to let go of its fear by proximity to your True Self which is fearless nature.
So, in this way we begin to build resolution pathways in the brain. You learn, basically, how to help the emotions resolve themselves, so that if they get triggered they simply resolve instantly, on the spot, through the training that you've done before you do the challenge And then you go out and walk around the block or whatever and put this training into action.
So, we repeat this process over and over again. Meditation before challenge and we do the challenge and we may come back and meditate some more and then we repeat the challenge until we no longer feel any fear in doing that challenge. Then we move on to a harder challenge. And in this way we gain more and more confidence in the process.
So, when you are able to neutralize these emotional reactions then the beliefs begin to change quite automatically. We don't need to try and change our beliefs. We simply need to change the emotional content that fuels those beliefs and makes them so powerful.
If you would like to learn more about agoraphobia therapy online do please send me an email and we can schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.
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How to overcome agoraphobia without medication - Online Mindfulness Therapy
How to overcome agoraphobia without medication - Online Mindfulness Therapy
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness therapist specializing in mindfulness therapy which I offer online via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression, and also for agoraphobia. So if you'd like to learn how to overcome agoraphobia without medication do please go to my website and read my pages on the treatment of agoraphobia using mindfulness therapy.
It is important to understand that medications don't actually treat agoraphobia. They treat the symptoms of anxiety and they simply mask those symptoms. They reduce them, but only in a temporary manner. The underlying cause of your anxiety, your panic attacks, your agoraphobia, remains untouched by medications.
If you want to really overcome agoraphobia you have to change those underlying psychological patterns, those emotional habits, that create the anxiety in the first place. So this is essential and this is what we focus on during these online mindfulness therapy sessions for agoraphobia.
You don't need medication, you need instead to develop a very positive and conscious relationship with your anxiety. When you do this you actually teach the anxiety how to heal itself by being present with it without becoming reactive. The best analogy here is a parent and child. So the child is afraid. What does it need? What it really needs is to be in contact with its parent, who is not afraid. The fearlessness of the parent is absorbed by the child and that allows the child to release his or her fear. So this connection between child and parent is extremely important for healing the underlying cause of the child's fear.
The same goes for our anxiety, our emotions. They tend to become isolated in the mind, they become cut off from our true self, the bigger aspect of who we really are When they are isolated they cannot heal and then they become reactive and create the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks that you are familiar with.
When we build an internal relationship between your true self and your emotions, that relationship allows those emotions to start to change and heal. And when that relationship is strong and based on consciousness and friendliness, the two key features of mindfulness, then that healing process becomes very strong and very fast.
So this approach of bringing mindfulness to the emotional reactions that underlie our agoraphobia is very effective in deed and produces results in very few sessions compared to conventional talk therapy, and certainly better than medications.
So if you'd like to learn how to overcome agoraphobia without medication and using the methods of mindfulness therapy that I teach then please email me and let’s schedule an online therapy session.
Contact me to schedule a Skype therapy session with Dr. Peter Strong, specialist in online mindfulness therapy for anxiety and depression and for online help with agoraphobia.
VISIT MY CONTACT PAGE TO SCHEDULE AN ONLINE THERAPY SESSION TO HELP YOU OVERCOME AGORAPHOBIA
Online Treatment for Agoraphobia through Skype
Online Treatment for Agoraphobia through Skype
Online Therapy for Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Disorder without medication
Online Therapy for Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Disorder without medication
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer mindfulness based online therapy for agoraphobic anxiety and panic attacks.
The mindfulness approach is extremely effective and during online therapy sessions I will teach you how to work with your agoraphobic anxiety using the techniques of mindfulness to help you prevent your becoming overwhelmed by the anxiety reactions. We do this by actually meditating on our anxiety before we do any challenges.
Meditating helps to change the relationship that you have with your anxiety and this is absolutely essential, because the biggest problem that I encounter is that people suffering from anxiety tend to become identified with their emotions. They tend to become consumed by their emotions. They effectively lose their identity and become the emotions and this creates a very reactive place that is very difficult to escape from.
So with mindfulness training you can change this pattern and learn to develop a relationship with your anxiety whereby you do not become identified with it where you can see the anxiety as an observer. This is essential for change. Once you begin to do this the rate of recovery from agoraphobic anxiety and panic attacks increases dramatically, and most people will see quite substantial changes after only four or five sessions with me once they start applying the mindfulness-based techniques.
So the basic idea is that you will schedule sessions with me and we will work on setting up a series of challenges that you can manage and then you prepare for these challenges using mindfulness meditation. You do that challenge and you meditate on any anxiety that arose during that challenge.
And each time we learn a little more about how to change our relationship to our anxiety so that we basically break free from the habit of identification and becoming overwhelmed by it. And this approach is, from my experience, the most effective there is for overcoming agoraphobic anxiety. So if you'd like to get started with me simply go to my website and then email me to schedule a Skype therapy session with me.
VISIT MY CONTACT PAGE TO SCHEDULE AN ONLINE THERAPY SESSION FOR HELP WITH AGORAPHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS & ANXIETY
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