Online Therapy for Agoraphobia Connecticut

Online Therapy for Agoraphobia Connecticut

Online Mindfulness Therapy for agoraphobia is available for residents of Connecticut, serving: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Hartford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain.

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Online Mindfulness Therapist for Overcoming Agoraphobia and Social Anxiety Disorder without using antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.

See a Psychotherapist Online via Skype for effective online help and mindfulness-based therapy for overcoming Chronic Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Social Anxiety.

If you want to recover completely from agoraphobia you must treat the underlying conditioned anxiety reactions.

Medications don’t address this. Medications only provide a tempry relief from anxiety symptoms, but do very little to change the underlying psychological cause of your anxiety.

During Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy (Mindfulness Therapy) we work on neutralizing these habitual reactions directly at the psychological level. This approach is extremely effective and most of my clients see significant improvements after 3-4 Skype sessions.

Online therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy as long as you use Skype, FaceTime or Zoom so that you can see each other. Being able to see each other is required for effective communication and good psychotherapy.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

Working with Inner Imagery – The secret to healing Agoraphobia

Internally, every emotion is structured around imagery – inner pictorial representations that resonate with the emotion. For example, anger is usually associate with the color red and anger is structured around imagery that is red in color and probably hot as well.

We can learn about the structure of our inner imagery by observing our emotions with mindfulness. From what we learn, we can intuitively see what changes in the imagery might be helpful. Change the imagery and you change the structure of the emotion.

People with agoraphobia typically have a great deal of inner imagery, very often based on the feeling of emptiness, an inner void or black hole that threatens to swallow up everything.

Discovering the structure of this imagery provides a very powerful tool for changing the intensity of the anxiety underlying agoraphobia. This approach is one of the most effective treatment for agoraphobia and was pioneered by Dr. Strong in the 1980s.

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Welcome. My name is Peter strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer online help for agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders that may be affecting the quality of your life. I offer online therapy, which is of course very convenient if you're suffering from agoraphobia.

The style of therapy that I offer is called mindfulness therapy and this is a very practical hands-on approach that gives you tools that you can use between therapy sessions to progressively overcome your agoraphobia.

So, mindfulness therapy consists of a combination of two important aspects. The first is designing a series of progressive challenges. That's very important, of course, that you try to face your fears and not simply give into them. But you need to do this in a progressive way starting simple and then progressing to more difficult challenges.

The other part of this approach is to do training before you do any kind of exposure challenge. You need to prepare yourself so that if anxiety gets triggered, that you will have trained such that that that anxiety will dissipate or resolve itself on the spot in the presence of the particular triggers that trigger the fear, anxiety or panic attacks. So we train beforehand.

We do this by developing a very different quality of relationship to our anxiety and this is the hallmark of mindfulness therapy. The real problem is not so much the anxiety itself but our reactions to that anxiety. We tend to develop patterns of fear-based reactions to our anxiety and other emotions that tend to feed that underlying anxiety and stop it resolving itself.

So, during the preparation step before a challenge you actually will be learning how to meditate on your anxiety. So you will play through the scene of perhaps walking around the block or whatever challenge you decide to start with. You look for the anxiety that gets triggered in your mind and then you change the way that you relate to that anxiety. And the most important thing is not to become identified with the anxiety; to see the anxiety as if it was a visitor or simply an object in the mind. Then we can learn to develop balance in relationship to that object. So you can sit with your anxiety without becoming anxious. That's the most important first step in the training before you do any challenges.

The second step is to respond to that anxiety with a quality of friendliness and compassion. This also is a vital part of the mindfulness approach. Mindfulness is this combination of consciousness and friendliness.

Friendliness is immensely powerful in overcoming fear. So you could think that of the fear emotion itself as being like a child. It feels isolated. It's scared. And what does it need? The most important thing it needs is to feel a connection with its parent. The parent is not afraid. During meditation on our anxiety we establish this kind of internal parent which we call our true self. It is not afraid it is able to establish a relationship with the anxiety that is not based on fear based on compassion. This is exactly what the fear needs in order to resolve itself. And that is what we call the True Self-Little Self Alliance.

So when people are stuck in patterns of anxiety it's because that alliance is missing within. So building that is essential. And there are many other things that we do during the training before each challenge session, but that's a taste of Mindfulness Therapy. It is very, very effective in deed, and most people see significant improvements after three or four weeks of practicing the techniques that I will teach you. So, if you're interested in online help for your anxiety and your agoraphobia do please send me an email and let's schedule a therapy session via Skype. Thank you.

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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional online psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia. If you're interested in learning more about how to overcome agoraphobia and other forms of panic disorder then do please go to my website and learn more about the mindfulness therapy methods, and feel free, at any time, to email me and ask any questions you have and I will explain to you in as much detail as I can how Mindfulness Therapy can help you overcome agoraphobia and other forms of severe anxiety.

The key to the mindfulness therapy approach is to give you practical tools that you can apply yourself between sessions. And the two major approaches that you will be practicing yourself after I teach them to you are a combination of a disciplined approach to exposure challenges, so that you will be setting up a series of manageable challenges to extend beyond your comfort zone. And that should be done on a daily basis and often repeating those challenges many times during the day.

So that's one part, setting up that strategy of regular disciplined challenges. But that alone is not enough. So that's one of the limitations of exposure therapy. Exposure itself is not enough. You can end up re-traumatizing yourself and making the anxiety worse. You must combine that exposure challenge strategy with adequate preparation and processing beforehand. So there's a training element and this is where the mindfulness therapy comes in.

Basically, the way that works is that you rehearse the challenge before you do it. Many times you play it through in the mind, whatever that challenge might be. You imagine yourself walking to the edge of your comfort zone just sufficiently that you can access that anxiety. You then work on the most important thing of all which is changing your relationship to the habitual anxiety reactions that get triggered.

The real problem that prevents anxiety disorders from healing and changing is the way that we get lost in habitual reactivity. We simply identify with that anxiety and we become our fear. What we need to do is change our relationship to the anxiety so that we can see it consciously as it arises, and cultivate balance in relationship to your anxiety. It's like learning to sit on the bank of the river and not fall in. That's the key component of mindfulness therapy that makes it so effective.

Because anxiety arises is not the end of the story. It's only because we become identified with that and anxiety reaction. And then, of course, we tend to feed the anxiety with catastrophic thinking and all kinds of cognitive reactivity, as well.

So by training with the anxiety reactions and thought reactions ahead of time you can basically disarm those habitual reactions before they get triggered. So, that's the training phase that you would do before each of your daily challenges.

Then you do the challenge and during the challenge you basically just put into practice the training that you have perfected before the challenge. This is mostly about staying conscious staying awake, recognizing the reaction that arises, greeting it consciously and also with a degree of friendliness, which is very, very important in all mindfulness work, and not allowing that habitual reaction to take charge.

And then after the completion of a challenge you might meditate again on any fresh anxiety that arose during that challenge. And again help process that reactivity so you can neutralize it.

Then you can repeat the challenge again and each time the training gets stronger and stronger and stronger.

Most people can expect to see quite significant improvements, and that includes a reduction in the intensity of anxiety, within three to four sessions, three to four weeks of practicing in exposure challenges and training.

Eventually the training becomes so effective that the anxiety doesn't arise at all and that is a remarkable experience for people who have often struggled with agoraphobia or other forms of extreme anxiety for many years.

So if you'd like to get started with online therapy for your agoraphobia or panic attacks, send me an email then we can schedule a Skype session and we can get started.

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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy via Skype for help with anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia.

So if you're looking for an online therapist via Skype to help you manage your agoraphobia then please contact me and ask any questions you may have about this service and about how I can help you overcome your agoraphobia.

So being able to see a therapist online is of course essential if you're suffering from agoraphobia and find it very difficult to leave the comfort of your own home or to travel by car to see a therapist.

The biggest problem with agoraphobia is that we become trapped, we become imprisoned in our home or in a very restricted "safe zone" and it's very anxiety producing to try and leave that zone. So that's why I have developed an online Skype-based program to help people overcome the anxiety and panic attacks associated with the agoraphobia.

The main approach that I have developed and specialize in and that I find works best for agoraphobia is called Mindfulness Therapy and specifically mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So exposure therapy is an essential part of your recovery process. You need to challenge yourself to move outside of your comfort comfort zone. That's very important. You must not fall into the habit of avoidance. That really is a problem for agoraphobia, this tendency to avoid anxiety-producing situations. When you fall into that trap of avoidance you end up reinforcing the anxiety.

So we need to develop a very strategic approach to extending our range and stop the avoidance behaviors.

The biggest problem for most people is they simply become hypnotized by those anxiety reactions; they become seduced by them and fall into that anxiety reaction. It's a blind and unconscious process that's going on here and that's what we have to change, and mindfulness is really good at doing that because it brings conscious awareness to the habits, to the thought habits and the emotional reactions that cause that anxiety.

So that's a little bit of the theory of mindfulness therapy and how it works for neutralizing anxiety. So if you would like to learn more, please contact me and we can schedule a session and you can see for yourself just how effective this approach is.

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Learn practical mindfulness methods to help you eliminate anxiety and depression. Speak to a Therapist Online via Skype for highly effective online treatment for Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Addictions, including eating disorders, Post-traumatic stress or any other emotional problems not requiring treatment by a medical professional. Email me to learn more about this online counseling therapy service and to arrange for an online Skype therapy session with me.

The type of psychotherapy that I teach online is known as Mindfulness Therapy, which is quite powerful for eliminating chronic anxiety as well as for treating chronic depression or other common psychological problems caused by conditioned reactive thinking. Most of my students experience quite dramatic improvements after the first couple of sessions of Mindfulness Therapy.

Welcome! Are you trying to find a Skype therapist to help you overcome anxiety or depression or to work with an addiction?

My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional online therapist. I offer Skype therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression. I have been doing this for many years now and I really enjoy the Skype therapy interface. It's much more convenient, of course, for clients, but it is also very effective, because it means that you can receive quality psychotherapy form the comfort of your own home, without having to leave and go to a therapist's office where you may feel a little more uncomfortable or intimidated by the relationship of a therapist and you as a patient.

Skype therapy overcomes this kind of intimidation that is so characteristic of a traditional medical-based psychotherapy.

In my opinion, good psychotherapy is about teaching you more effective ways of managing emotional suffering, whether that is anxiety or depression or addiction or OCD or any other form of emotional suffering that is limiting your life.

From my point of view as a specialist in Mindfulness Therapy, I regard most psychological forms of emotional suffering as simply habits. These are emotional habits that we learn and that operate subconsciously.

These habits can be changed through the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy that I teach via Skype.

So. if you would like to learn more about online therapy and about how Mindfulness Therapy can help you break the emotional habits of anxiety or depression or addiction, then please go to my website, learn more about the Mindfulness Therapy approach and then CONTACT ME.

Simply EMAIL ME, tell me about yourself and how I can help you. Then when we feel it is the right time, we can schedule a Skype therapy session. So, please go to my website, learn more about online therapy, and CONTACT ME. Thank you!

Contact me if you would like to schedule a Skype therapy session. You might also like to read my book, "The Path of Mindfulness Meditation" (kindle).

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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy via Skype.

So if you're looking for a psychotherapist who uses Skype them, do please go to my website and learn more about the online therapy service that I provide. Skype is a very good choice because it's very secure, it's encrypted, and it allows you to see each other, which is a very important part of effective communication. So it's a very good choice if you are considering online therapy. You really do need to see each other.

So I work almost exclusively now via Skype simply because people enjoy the convenience of Skype therapy. And people really find it more comfortable to have their sessions from home than having to go into a therapist's office. Being comfortable is really important, that greatly increases the effectiveness of the psychotherapy process. You need to feel in control.

You need to feel free to ask questions and really explore the methods that I'll be teaching you. This is really important. This is your process. It's quite different than simply going to a doctor for a prescription medication.

What I teach is a set of well-tested methods that you can apply yourself for overcoming chronic anxiety and depression and also for working with the underlying emotional cause of addiction.

Whatever the form of emotional suffering that is affecting you, you can overcome that emotional suffering when you have the tools to do it effectively. So that's the focus that I take in my therapy sessions.

I will be teaching you how to apply mindfulness for overcoming anxiety and depression and other forms of emotional suffering.

We can learn how to overcome the patterns of reactivity and the underlying emotions themselves. The effect is very, very profound, long-lasting and it provides a path for growing in well-being and happiness, as well as just healing the underlying suffering.

So if you'd like to learn more about mindfulness therapy and you're looking for a therapist to work with via Skype, then do please contact me and schedule a Skype therapy session. I see people worldwide. All you need is a good Internet connection and then we can arrange for a Skype therapy session.

Typically, people see big changes have to the first three or four sessions with me once you learn how to apply these practical methods for working with anxiety and depression and other forms of emotional suffering. Thank you.

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