Online therapy for agoraphobia Longmont, Colorado

Online therapy for agoraphobia Longmont, Colorado

This online therapy service is available in Colorado, including Longmont.

Online Help for Agoraphobia

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

Talk to a Psychotherapist Online using Skype for highly effective online help and treatment for overcoming Agoraphobia, Chronic Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Social Anxiety.

If you want to recover effectively from agoraphobia you must treat the underlying habitual anxiety reactions.

Anti-anxiety medications don’t do this. Medications only treat from anxiety symptoms, but do nothing 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 very effective and most of my clients see significant improvements after 3-4 Skype sessions.

Online therapy is very effective as long as you use Skype, FaceTime or Zoom so that you can see each other. Being able to see each other is necessary 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.

Email me to learn more about this online therapy service and arrange for an online therapy session with me. Inquiries welcome!

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ONLINE PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR AGORAPHOBIA and SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER

If you are suffering from social anxiety, also know as social phobia or agoraphobia, which is the more extreme form of social anxiety disorder, then you know how challenging it can be to find a therapist to work with. The challenge of leaving the security of your home to attend your therapy session may be too difficult for you to contemplate. This is why I provide online therapy for social anxiety disorders.

If you would like to learn more about Online Therapy sessions for Agoraphobia and Social Anxiety Disorder, please visit my website and contact me.

The style of therapy that I provide for anxiety is called Mindfulness Therapy, which teaches you specific ways of working with your emotions so that you do not become overwhelmed by them. You can learn much more about this approach by visiting my website.

In home counseling for social anxiety and agoraphobia - Get the help you need without having to leave home.

I welcome your inquiries and I look forward to meeting you and helping you break free from social anxiety, social phobia and agoraphobia. The methods I use are effective and you will see results after only a few sessions. The first session can be quite significant in getting you started on your road to recovery, so please contact me to schedule a Skype therapy session now. There is no charge unless you are completely satisfied with the first session.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer mindfulness-based online therapy for agoraphobia, anxiety disorders 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.

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How do I overcome my agoraphobia without medication?

Online Mindfulness Therapy for Agoraphobia

Email me to schedule a Skype therapy session with Dr. Peter Strong, specialist in online mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders, including agoraphobia, and depression.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional online psychotherapist based in Colorado and I offer online therapy via Skype to help people manage anxiety and depression more effectively using the techniques of mindfulness therapy.

This is a system of psychotherapy that I've been developing over the last ten or more years now that seems to be extremely effective for anxiety and also depression but basically is very effective for helping you heal the underlying anxiety itself directly. And it does this and a variety of ways one of which is by helping you work on those patterns of reactive thinking that feed the anxiety.

So with agoraphobia the typical situation is that we get obsessed with anxiety producing thoughts about what will happen to us if we leave our safety zone for example that's a common kind of thought pattern. You know the fear of having a panic attack in public. The fear of fainting or being sick or anything else like that. These are these are fed by a whole system of internal dialogue that is relentless and feeding that anxiety.

So I'm often asked how can I overcome my agoraphobia without using medication and to do this effectively you have to address this underlying psychological process of reactive thinking that's feeding your anxiety. Medications have their prey's place you know the selective serotonin uptake inhibitors you know these have their place but medications can change that underlying process. All the medication will ever do is reduce symptoms for a while. But that's not really healing the problem is not changing the essential underlying psychological habits that are creating your anxiety and fear.

So this is why it is recommended that you look into process oriented psychotherapy like cognitive behavioral therapy or exposure and prevention type protocols. Because these help you actually deal with that underlying reactive process.

I teach mindfulness based exposure therapy which is really great very effective indeed for agoraphobia specifically. It really helps you develop a strategic approach to overcoming your anxiety. So some of the exposure therapy models are OK up to a point but they don't really tell you how to process the anxiety itself directly. What to do with that emotion? In mindfulness work we work exclusively on reprocessing that emotion, that habit that gets activated.

If you'd like to learn more about the mindfulness approach for healing anxiety including agoraphobia then simply go to my website. Learn More and e-mail me with any questions you may have. Of course it's very convenient to be able to do your psychotherapy sessions online if you're suffering from agoraphobia, and that's one of the reasons why I specialize in Skype Therapy. It's very important that you can see each other. That's why we use Skype. This improves the quality of communication and makes the therapy sessions much more effective.

So during our sessions together I will teach you how to develop a strategy for overcoming your anxiety using mindfulness based exposure therapy. So what does this entail? Well it it entails designing a series of challenges that are manageable but that tend to produce anxiety. So it might be simply leaving the comfort of your own home and walking to a shop or going to a mall or any number of things. You will know what those triggers are that trigger your anxiety and panic attacks.

We design a series of challenges where we basically take one challenge and we prepare for it using mindfulness methods. This basically means playing the challenge through in the mind, visualizing going to the mall for example, and then watching for the anxiety reaction and all of the reactive thoughts that get triggered when that anxiety is triggered in the mind.

When we find those anxiety thoughts and the emotion itself we then start to build a different kind of relationship with it that is based on consciousness, on mindfulness, where we can become the observer of these thoughts and emotions but without becoming identified with them. In this way we break the habit that causes our anxiety.

Let me help you break free from your agoraphobia through Mindfulness Therapy.

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Online treatment plan for agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy

Exposure Therapy is an essential part of the recovery process, but is not sufficient by itself. You have to engage in thorough training before you do each exposure challenge to prevent simply re-traumatizing yourself. Hence the development of Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy, an approach that I developed several years ago and have found to be very effective when working with clients suffering from agoraphobia.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy, which of course, is very convenient and necessary if you're suffering from agoraphobia or other anxiety condition that keeps you housebound.

So I'm often asked, "What is the best treatment for agoraphobia?" "What's the best way to overcome the anxiety and panic attacks that accompany agoraphobia?" From my experience working with people suffering from agoraphobia, over the last ten years or so now, I find that the best approach is what I call Mindfulness Therapy. This is a system of work that I've been developing for many years which really works at the underlying core level of your anxiety. It helps you break free from those patterns of habitual reactivity that cause your anxiety. It works by changing the anxiety directly so that it is not habitually triggered by the common triggers that you encounter in your agoraphobia.

We have to uncover these underlying anxiety habits and then work on changing them. And the best way to doing this is what I call Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy. So this means that you actively create a series of exposure challenges. That might be walking around the block or driving a short distance if you can still drive or even just stepping outside the front door. But it doesn't matter what the challenges are. But it is essential that you identify challenges that are accompanied by a degree of anxiety and then start working on those challenges and training yourself out of the reactive anxiety that has become habitual.

The way that we train ourselves out of the anxiety reactions is not by simply repeated exposure as is often taught. Repeated exposure is very inefficient and you risk intensifying the anxiety.

So in mindfulness-based exposure therapy we prepare for each challenge in a very thorough way before you do the challenge, and this preparation is called a rehearsal meditation. It's all about training. So in a rehearsal meditation you imagine doing that challenge and then you look specifically for any anxiety that gets triggered. And then you start to work with that anxiety, working with its structure and helping change that anxiety directly.

So if you would like help with your agoraphobia, please contact me and let's schedule some therapy sessions over Skype and I will teach you exactly how to apply mindfulness to overcome your agoraphobia. So please contact me if you'd like to get started with the mindfulness approach to overcoming agoraphobia.

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Learn how to more effectively control anxiety and depression. Talk to a Psychotherapist Online over Skype for highly effective online counseling for Anxiety Disorders, Panic Attacks and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Addictions, including eating disorders, Post-traumatic stress or any other forms of emotional stress not requiring medical treatment.

Contact me to discover more about this online counseling therapy service and to book Skype therapy with me.

Talking to a Skype therapist provides a convenient way to get effective psychological help for anxiety, panic attacks and depression without having to leave home. This is very convenient if you do not have access to a psychotherapist in your local area or if you are specifically interested in Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I teach online. Please contact me if you would like to see a Skype therapist for help with anxiety or depression.

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Skype Psychotherapist for Anxiety & Depression

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I offer Skype Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression. So if you're looking for Skype Therapy to help you overcome anxiety or depression, then I invite you to take a look at my website and then e-mail me through my contact form with any questions you may have about Skype Therapy and how it can help you.

So, Skype Therapy is a great choice if you are looking for an alternative to medical-based treatments for anxiety or depression. Many people are looking for something other than medications. Many of my clients have already tried medications, and the general consensus is that anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications really don't seem to address the underlying problem. They seem to provide a short term solution, perhaps reducing symptoms, but they do nothing to change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression.

So during the Skype Therapy sessions that I teach, I will be showing you how to work at the core level of your anxiety or depression using the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy. This is a very effective way of changing the underlying conditioned habitual processes that cause your anxiety and depression.

And these are psychological in nature. They must be changed by a psychological intervention of which psychotherapy is the right approach, but you have to approach it in the right way, using the right kind of psychotherapy.

So again, talk therapy is generally not that effective because it's not really getting into the root cause of your anxiety or depression.

So in Mindfulness Therapy, we try to change things at a fundamental level and we do that not by talking about your emotions so much, not by trying to uncover family history and and the like, but really by simply focusing conscious, mindful awareness on exactly how that anxiety or depression is manifesting right now.

So we can look at the underlying process that is generating that anxiety or depression or other emotional problems. If you really want to change something, you have to change it in the present. You can't change history, but you can change the way that you relate to your memories.

So we learn essentially how to meditate on our emotions. This is the primary vehicle for change and for promoting healing and recovery.

And conditioned habitual reactivity, by its nature operates subconsciously and we are not really consciously aware of what's happening. We simply suffer the consequences of these underlying habitual patterns of reactivity.

So the central focus in Mindfulness Therapy is to uncover these habits, the habits that cause anxiety and the habits that cause depression. We want to see those habits very clearly. When you bring conscious awareness to them that allows you to break free from that automatic blind quality of the habit.

So we learn to meditate on our emotions. Meditation is the primary vehicle for seeing what's going on in the mind. We then practice and train to stay present with our emotions without becoming reactive, without becoming identified with them, without becoming sucked in to those patterns of reactive thinking and rumination that feeds anxiety and depression.

So the more you see, the freer you become. And then from that place of freedom, you are better able to respond skillfully in a way that helps the anxiety or depression heal.

And it is very much about developing internal compassion towards your emotional pain. That's what it really needs for healing, and that's what's usually missing when the mind becomes reactive.

So there are many aspects of Mindfulness Therapy I'd be happy to teach you and explain to you in more detail. If you would like to really get to the bottom of your anxiety or depression and really promote a lasting recovery and healing, then I advise you to consider Mindfulness Therapy.

Now, people like online therapy because it's convenient. And as long as you use Skype, then it is just as effective as meeting in-person with a therapist. You don't need to be in the same room as a therapist, but you do need to see each other.

So if you'd like to learn more about online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype, then please contact me and schedule a Skype Therapy session.

Most people see tremendous improvements in a relatively short time, often in the first three or four weeks, once you start applying the mindfulness techniques that I'll be teaching you during these Skype therapy sessions.

So please contact me if this interests you. Thank you.

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