Online Mindfulness Therapy to treat Anxiety

Online Mindfulness Therapy to treat Anxiety

Online Counseling for Anxiety by Skype

Please feel free to contact me by email if you would like to schedule Online Therapy with me.

Everyone that I have worked with really enjoys the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…

"I found Peter’s website serendipitously and I can honestly say that I have had excellent results in six sessions utilizing Peter’s approach which, while based in the teachings of the Buddha, are fully compatible with any religion or philosophy."

During these Skype therapy sessions I will teach you how to apply mindfulness, including mindfulness meditation for healing all forms of anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, depression, and addiction recovery and other emotional problems, by using the very practical methods of Mindfulness Therapy.

This approach is remarkably effective and you can expect to see significant reduction in the intensity of your anxiety or depression after the first few Skype sessions with me.

Online Mindfulness-based Skype Psychotherapy is extremely effective for controlling anxiety and depression without relying on anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants. It is better to treat the psychological cause of your psychological suffering as opposed to just managing symptoms.

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How to overcome anxiety without depending on anti-anxiety medications

Contact me if you would like to learn more about online therapy via Skype with me.

Do you need an online therapist for anxiety? Would you like to talk to a therapist online to get help with your anxiety? Then please go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service that I offer via Skype.

So I specialize in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of all kinds of anxiety disorders, ranging from generalized anxiety disorder to social anxiety disorder including agoraphobia. I work a lot with obsessive compulsive disorder and in general the mindfulness approach is particularly effective for producing changes in quite a short time and typically people see substantial improvements after the first two to three sessions with me.

And this is because we focus on really changing the underlying process that causes your anxiety. This is quite different than conventional talk therapy or counseling. And it's certainly different than medical approaches that advocate the use of medications. I do not recommend medications for the treatment of anxiety disorders because medications do not treat the underlying condition. They do not change the underlying process that creates anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy does. It helps you change that underlying habitual process that produces anxiety and that underlying process is psychological in nature. It is basically a psychological habit.

So anxiety is primarily a habit. We learn anxiety, we are not born with anxiety. It is not developed out of nothing. It is a habit that is learned. We learn these habits quite naturally when we are exposed to emotional trauma, particularly in childhood that we're unable to process. When that's emotional trauma becomes stuck in the mind of suppressed then it becomes the seed that leads to the development of anxiety disorders.

However you don't have to go back to childhood to try and change emotional trauma in order to recover from anxiety disorders that you might be experiencing now. Whatever the cause of that habit, however it got established the place to change the habit is right now as it manifests itself in your present situation.

So Mindfulness Therapy allows you to change anxiety habits. And them the most important way that we go about changing the anxiety habit is by changing the quality of relationship that we have with our anxiety and other emotions.

So classically, the anxiety habit is sustained by levels of habitual reactivity to that anxiety. The habitual reactivity simply feeds the anxiety. And what is the main kind of reactivity that we encounter? It is primarily the reactive habit of avoidance and the reactive habit of aversion or hatred towards that anxiety.

If you react to your anxiety with either avoidance or aversion then you basically feed that anxiety and you prevent it from changing. So reactivity stops anxiety changing and it prevents that anxiety habit from changing.

So in mindfulness therapy we overcome this habit of reactivity to our anxiety or other painful emotional habits. We learn to develop a conscious and friendly relationship to our anxiety. This is the key method that produces change and allows the anxiety habit to resolve itself and become replaced by more positive emotional habits. So if you don't react to your fear or anxiety you don't feed it. So we learn to hold the anxiety in conscious mindful awareness without reacting to it. We put the emotion in neutral, in effect.

So we do this by meditating on our anxiety, or any other emotion for that matter. We hold it in awareness deliberately and learn how to sit with with that anxiety without becoming reactive, without becoming identified with it.

When we can do this then we effectively neutralize the anxiety. It takes a little bit of training, but not very much. It is quite surprising how quickly you can overcome the anxiety habit like any other habit when you start applying consciousness, when you start really sitting with your emotions without reacting to them. When you can do that then the habit starts to lose strength and begins to burn itself out.

So if you would like to get started with me with online therapy for anxiety and you like the idea of working with an online therapist like myself who specializes in mindfulness therapy, then please contact me and lets schedule an online therapy session.

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Online Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Online Psychotherapist for Anxiety through Skype or FaceTime or Zoom

Welcome. If you'd like to speak to a psychotherapist online via Skype I invite you to go to my website and learn more about online psychotherapy.

So being able to speak to an online psychotherapist for anxiety is particularly useful because usually if you're experiencing chronic anxiety you may find it rather difficult to leave home or go to see a therapist in an office. And the thought of medication and other treatment approaches might be rather intimidating.

So being able to speak to an online psychotherapist via Skype is much more convenient and much more comfortable for most people. And that's the approach that I really specialize in - providing an online therapy resource as a way of working with difficult emotions like anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety and also OCD.

The style of psychotherapy that I offer online is called Mindfulness Therapy, and this is really a very effective way of learning how to manage difficult emotions such as anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches you how to change the way that you relate to your emotions and also to your thoughts. We have to learn to form a relationship with our emotions in which we do not become overwhelmed or consumed by those emotions.

We need to be able to sit with those emotions, observe them, but not become overwhelmed by them. And this is what I will teach you during the online therapy sessions. I will teach you how to sit with your emotions without becoming overwhelmed, and this is a central theme in all Mindfulness Therapy.

The particular style of Mindfulness Therapy that I've developed some 20 years ago now is designed to help you not only form a stable relationship with your emotions but also to explore how to heal anxiety depression and other emotions. And this we do by developing a response based on compassion and friendliness with our emotions.

The typical habitual response that most people develop is that they try to avoid their anxiety or they try to avoid anxiety producing situations and they react with fear towards their anxiety or panic attacks.

So avoidance will not heal anxiety. It simply feeds the anxiety. And the same goes for developing aversion or fear towards your anxiety. If you react in any way to your anxiety it's only going to make it worse, basically.

So when we learn to sit with our anxiety we learn to to see that anxiety as a part of our self that needs our help and need support. We learn to see the anxiety as a part that is in need. And in fact we learn to approach our anxiety very much the same way that a parent would approach a child in need.

The anxiety is very much like a child in many ways. It is conditioned, it has limited ability to change itself and it requires the intervention of a larger entity, like a parent.

Well during mindfulness training, we learn to become that parent to our own emotions, and that is a central requirement for healing. We have to become a parents to our anxiety. When you can approach your anxiety like that then you will facilitate healing and make it much more likely that healing will occur.

So, if you like to learn more about Mindfulness Therapy and you like the idea of being able to speak to an online psychotherapist for anxiety, do please go to my website. Learn more about the Mindfulness Therapy approach and please email me to schedule an online psychotherapy session for your anxiety. Thank you.

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Online Counseling for Anxiety via Skype

Online Psychotherapy for Anxiety through Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist based in Boulder Colorado and I offer online psychotherapy for anxiety via Skype.

So if you're interested in learning more about online therapy for treating anxiety disorders, whether that's generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, or if you have a problem with recurrent panic attacks, or if you suffer from driving anxiety disorder or a phobia in general, then please go to my website and learn more about this online psychotherapy service that I offer.

If you're interested in online psychotherapy you should check that the therapist is able to provide sessions via Skype. I believe it's essential that you are able to see each other as well as speak to each other, because this greatly improves the effectiveness of communication. And that's a very important fact when you're working with difficult emotional conditions like anxiety and panic attacks or depression, or even for work with addiction.

Many people like online therapy because it's clearly more convenient. And if you're living abroad or in a rural area you might find it difficult to find a local therapist that you want to work with.

People like the greater privacy also offered by online psychotherapy. It means that you can conduct your sessions from home and in the privacy of your own environment. And that's quite important for a lot of people. Sometimes we feel uncomfortable talking about our emotional problems. If it's an addiction it's often very difficult to talk about that in a more public setting. Being able to talk about your anxiety online is much less intimidating for most people. So that's one of one of the additional benefits of online therapy via Skype.

The style of psychotherapy that I offer online is called mindfulness therapy and this is a particular approach that I developed many years ago now that has proven to be incredibly effective for helping people manage anxiety disorders.

It's a technique that uses mindfulness. Mindfulness is simply a way of focusing conscious attention on emotions and on thoughts and memories and other components of the mind. It's a way of becoming conscious without becoming overwhelmed or consumed or lost in anxiety or depression or any other emotional formation.

We have to build a conscious relationship with our emotions. That is an absolute requirement for them to change, in my opinion. Talking about your anxiety can provide temporary relief but it's seldom as good as actually building an internal relationship with your anxiety in which you spend more time, if you like, listening to it rather than reacting to it or trying to explain it away or trying to understand it. All of these forms of cognitive processing are really taking you away from the emotion itself.

We create a safe space around our anxiety and we begin to explore how that anxiety works. One of the most important things we first focus on is the constellation of reactive thoughts that feeds that anxiety.

So anxiety tends to lead to proliferation of anxiety-based thinking. And this in turn feeds the underlying anxiety and creates this vicious feedback loop that stops the anxiety healing. So the first part of mindfulness is all about learning to see these reactive thoughts and breaking the unconscious habits of becoming lost in those thoughts. So we're not indulging the anxiety. Instead with simply creating a conscious and non-reactive relationship with it.

The second thing that we focus on in great detail during Mindfulness Therapy is looking at the internal imagery of the emotion. And this might be a new concept to you, but if you think about it you will begin to realize that all emotions are based around imagery.

So if you'd like to learn more about online psychotherapy via Skype for your anxiety do please email me and tell me more about how I can help you. And then when you feel ready we can schedule a session.

You will see in the very first session just how powerful this approach can be and most people see changes after the very first session, when you start applying the mindfulness methods that I'll teach you on how to work with your anxiety.

So please contact me if you'd like to get started.

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Online Treatment for Anxiety via Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm based in Boulder, Colorado, and I'm a professional mindfulness based psychotherapist. I offer online therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression.

So if you're looking for anxiety treatment without using medication then please go to my website and learn more about this mindfulness based therapy service that I offer.

So medications do not treat the underlying cause of anxiety. They only provide a temporary relief from symptoms. And you don't want to become dependent on medications because they have side effects and they tend to lose effectiveness over time, as well.

If you really want to recover from anxiety attacks you need to address the underlying process that causes that anxiety and that process is psychological in nature.

It's basically a psychological habit that becomes established and that gets triggered by various triggers and that habit creates the anxiety. But habits can be changed.

And one of the best ways of changing the "anxiety habit" is to actually learn how to apply mindfulness to meditate on that anxiety, instead of trying to run away from anxiety or trying to distract ourselves from anxiety, which do nothing to change the anxiety.

We actually learn how to meditate on our anxiety. In that process we learn to develop a stable and non-reactive relationship to the emotion itself and that is vital because if we react to our emotions we end up feeding those emotions rather like throwing fuel on a fire.

When you stop reacting to your anxiety then you stop feeding that anxiety and that is the first to helping that anxiety resolve itself and heal.

So you have to learn how to be present with your anxiety or other emotions without reacting to them. So this is the first step in mindfulness training: how to do that, how to see your emotions as objects in the mind instead of becoming overwhelmed by those emotions.

The second stage in Mindfulness Therapy is to investigate the structure of your anxiety. What actually is there? what happens in the mind that feeds that anxiety, that creates it?

So that involves looking at those patterns of habitual reactive thinking that feeds the anxiety.

As we begin to see these thoughts we can begin to break free from the habit of that reactive thinking in the same way. We can see that thought but not become identified with it, not become overwhelmed by it, not become lost in that reactive thinking, and in that way we stop feeding the fire of reactive thinking, which is one of the causes of our anxiety.

Another thing that we do in our mindfulness meditation on our anxiety is investigate the imagery of the emotion.

So all emotions are accompanied by some form of imagery, how you see it in the mind, and generally, intense emotions are too large, too close and too high in our visual field.

They are overwhelming because we see them above us literally in the mind. And in order to be overwhelming the emotion has to be very large in size.

And it will also have certain colors that support the anxiety, maybe red or orange.

These details are very important. That imagery is actually what creates the emotion in the first place. And the reactive thoughts simply stimulate that imagery.

Now when you can see the imagery you can begin to change that imagery. When you change the imagery, you change the emotion. So part of our mindfulness meditation work is to explore the imagery and explore changing the imagery of our emotions. And this is what promotes healing.

There are other factors that we explore during Mindfulness Therapy and I'll explain those to you in more detail if you choose to do some online Mindfulness Therapy sessions with me.

If you're interested in learning how to overcome anxiety attacks without medication then please send me an email and let's schedule a trial Skype Therapy session.

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Online therapy for Anxiety