Try Online Psychotherapy to recover from agoraphobia

Try Online Psychotherapy to recover from agoraphobia


Online Psychotherapist to treat Agoraphobia


See a Therapist Online via Skype for highly effective online help and mindfulness therapy for Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety.


If you want to recover fully from agoraphobia you must treat the underlying conditioned anxiety reactions that underly your agoraphobia. Prescription medications are not able to address this because medications only treat symptoms and are not able to change the underlying psychological process that causes anxiety. You will need a psychological approach to do that. During Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy (Mindfulness Therapy) we work on healing these habitual reactions directly.


Online therapy works very well as long as you use Skype, FaceTime or Zoom so that you can see each other. Being able to see each other is essential for effective communication and good psychotherapy.


Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for overcoming Agoraphobia


One of the most effective ways of overcoming the intense anxiety reactions of agoraphobia is through training in Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia. 


Effective strategies for the management of agoraphobia will involve some form of Exposure Therapy, but what make Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy particularly effective is that it involves training with the anxiety reactions before you do your exposure challenges. 


Repeated exposures by themselves is not likely to have much beneficial effect, but if you train yourself to neutralize your anxiety reactions before each challenge then the results from each challenge will be very much better.


The method used to neutralize your anxiety reactions is called Focused Mindfulness Meditation, where you deliberately play through the challenge in your mind in order to access the anxiety and then neutralize that anxiety through changing your relationship to the anxiety through the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy that I will be teaching you during our sessions together.


Contact me to discover more about this online counseling service and organize an online Skype counseling session with me. Inquiries welcome!


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Online Therapy via Skype for treating Agoraphobia


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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.


GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE TO SCHEDULE ONLINE THERAPY WITH ME TO HELP YOU OVERCOME AGORAPHOBIA


How do I overcome my agoraphobia without medication? Online Mindfulness Therapy for Agoraphobia

Online Psychotherapist for the treatment of Agoraphobia via Skype


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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See a therapist online over Skype for help with agoraphobia


Online Psychotherapist for treating Agoraphobia via Skype


Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy. If you would like to see a therapist online for help with agoraphobia, then please do go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service. 


Many people come to me for help with agoraphobia and of course being able to see a therapist online is extremely valuable. If you're suffering from agoraphobia and you're experiencing the anxiety of leaving home of traveling to see a therapist in their office that's the major problem that we have to overcome. Of course with agoraphobia we have to learn how to address these anxiety reactions that you're having and if you can't leave home then that becomes very difficult. So the online therapy option is a very good choice if you are suffering from severe anxiety and agoraphobia. 


So the approach that I use for helping people overcome agoraphobia is called Mindfulness Therapy and it is a very effective approach, one that I have developed over the years and refined, and from my experience it's probably the best approach out there for helping you overcome those anxiety reactions so that you can leave home and go into previously difficult situations and difficult spaces that would have caused great anxiety in the past. 


Our mission here is to learn how to change those habitual anxiety reactions and mindfulness therapy is extremely good at doing this. It has some similarities to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) but it's much more focused on working at the level of the anxiety itself. Mindfulness Therapy works more with emotions than thoughts because we see thoughts as being really the products of the underlying emotions rather than the other way round. So a common theme in Mindfulness Therapy is that we understand that thoughts do not cause anxiety but anxiety certainly causes a lot of thoughts that feed that anxiety. 


So we have to work with the underlying anxiety directly. You can't do that just by trying to change the thoughts. Those are simply the byproducts of that anxiety. 


So we do this by first of all designing a well-constructed schedule of exposure challenges. That is a necessary part of the recovery process. You design a series of challenges. It doesn't matter how small they are. The point is to do them well and to neutralize any anxiety reactions associated with that particular challenge. Then you progress to a more difficult challenge and you work with that in the same way using the various mindfulness techniques that I will teach you until you can do that challenge without any anxiety reactions at all and then he moved to another challenge and you move up a series of challenges progressing in difficulty until you can completely overcome all anxiety. 


So if you'd like to learn more about this approach and you'd like to schedule some Skype therapy sessions with me to work on your agoraphobia, or other form of anxiety, then do please contact me and we can get started. 


GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE TO SCHEDULE ONLINE THERAPY WITH ME FOR HELP WITH AGORAPHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS & ANXIETY


Online Psychotherapy for agoraphobia



Try Online Psychotherapy to recover from agoraphobia

Try Online Psychotherapy to recover from agoraphobia