Treat the cause rather than just treating symptoms. See CONTACT PAGE for fees and to schedule Online Mindfulness Therapy with Dr. Peter Strong.
I am based in Colorado and provide Online Mindfulness Therapy for anxiety via Skype for Ireland, including: Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry.
Contact me to schedule online therapy via Skype with me.
Everyone that I have worked with really enjoys the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…
"I can’t write enough how grateful I am that I had a chance to learn how to take control of my overwhelming OCD symptoms under the guidance of Peter."
During these Skype therapy sessions I will teach you how to apply mindfulness for healing all forms of anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, OCD, chronic depression, and addiction recovery and other forms of emotional suffering, by applying the well-tested methods of Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy.
This approach is particularly effective and you will experience significant results after the first 2-3 sessions with me.
Online Mindfulness Psychotherapy is very effective for controlling anxiety and depression without using drugs. It is always better to treat the cause of your anxiety or depression instead of just managing symptoms.
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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness-based psychotherapist, and I offer online therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders.
It's very convenient for you to work with an online therapist to get the treatment that you need to help you overcome your anxiety disorder. Many people with anxiety disorders really don't like going to see a therapist in person. They find it rather intimidating.
And also many people don't like taking medications. Anti-anxiety medications like Xanax may provide some temporary relief from symptoms but medications do nothing at all to correct the underlying psychological process that causes your anxiety.
So there are many different types of anxiety disorder that we can treat using Mindfulness Therapy. The most common type is called Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which really describes a condition of habitual reactive thinking and rumination, catastrophizing, excessive worrying. It's often described as being lost in negative thoughts.
Another type of anxiety disorder that I work with quite a lot is Social Anxiety Disorder, and also it's more severe form as agoraphobia. Social Anxiety Disorder is characterized by excessive fear of what people might be thinking about you. It's difficulty and hyper self-consciousness in social situations. It also describes difficulty in going into crowded areas and so on.
Agoraphobia, of course, describes a condition where a person is really really scared of leaving what we might call a secure area, like home. It's very difficult to go beyond certain comfort boundaries. And that's usually characterized by severe panic attacks.
So Panic disorder is another kind of anxiety disorder that I work with. This describes a very severe emotional contraction, a very intense form of anxiety that is often triggered by specific events or thoughts or situations.
Another type of anxiety disorder is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. And that is characterized, yet again, by habitual reactive thoughts or intrusive thoughts that have a very high emotional charge. And because of the high emotional charge, they keep repeating themselves and it's very difficult to let go of those kind of intrusive thoughts.
So whatever kind of anxiety disorder you have, Mindfulness Therapy is one of the best approaches available for working with these habitual reactive thoughts.
During our sessions I will teach you how to apply mindfulness to work with your particular anxiety disorder, which means learning how to work with these thoughts.
Now thoughts do not create anxiety. That is a common misconception, but they do fuel anxiety that is preexisting. So anxiety creates reactive thoughts, where the reactive thoughts then feed the anxiety and so you get this positive feedback loop that maintains that anxiety and prevents it from resolving and healing.
During Mindfulness Therapy we learn how to change the way we react to the anxiety. We change the way we relate to the anxiety thoughts. We learn to hold them in our conscious awareness without becoming identified with thoughts, without becoming lost in the stream of reactive thinking that feeds the anxiety. And this is one of the most important first parts of the training that I will teach you: how to sit with your thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them.
And the second part of Mindfulness Therapy is learning how to resolve the underlying anxiety itself. The anxiety is what feeds those thoughts and gives them that emotional charge that causes them to persist and proliferate. And this we do by a variety of methods. But mostly we can describe this as establishing a non-reactive and compassionate relationship with that underlying anxiety. This is what promotes resolution of the anxiety. And once you heal the underlying emotion then the reactive thinking subsides quite naturally.
Contact me through the contact form and let's schedule a session. All therapy sessions are offered by Skype and we can schedule a Skype Therapy Service session to help you work with your anxiety to free yourself from the crippling effects of anxiety disorders without the use of medications or years of analytical type psychotherapy.
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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional therapist and I offer online therapy via Skype for treating anxiety and for help overcoming anxiety and for work on addictions and many other emotional problems that respond well to online therapy.
If you're interested in talking to an online therapist for help overcoming anxiety, then I recommend that you look at my site and then feel free to contact me so that I can address your particular needs and explain to you how this online therapy process works.
Most people really enjoy online therapy and it's particularly good if you're suffering from anxiety because it's often very difficult to face going to see a therapist in their office; it is too intimidating for many people. And if you're suffering from panic attacks or agoraphobia or driving anxiety, then that makes it very, very difficult to see a therapist in their office.
So as long as you can see each other, which we can do, of course, using Skype, then really there's no difference between seeing a therapist via Skype compared to meeting in person, especially if you're really interested in learning techniques, learning methods of working with your emotions more effectively, because that's really what's what I do during our sessions together. I will teach you very practical ways of working with your anxiety to reduce the anxiety, to neutralize the anxiety producing habits.
So anxiety is basically a habit. It is a series of emotional reactions that are habitual in nature and that operates subconsciously because they are habitual. So any habit can be changed if we bring more conscious awareness to it and start to work with it consciously, we can undo that habit. It's really no different than any other habit that, you may be considering changing in your life.
The primary ingredient is to bring conscious awareness to it and not to try and avoid the habit. This is the biggest mistake that I see happening. People run away from their anxiety. They try to avoid situations that trigger their anxiety. They become so identified with being an anxious person that they become trapped by that process of reactive identification.
So these are the kind of problems that all thrive on the absence of consciousness, on blind acceptance, and mindfulness is a way of training out of these habits of blind acceptance and identification.
So the main way that we go about doing this is to deliberately cultivate a path of meditating on your anxiety. You need to find the triggers that trigger the habitual anxiety reactions and you need to meditate on those.
And meditation is best described as a training process. It's a way of bringing very focused and concentrated conscious awareness to the problem in hand. It's about helping you become free from those conditioned reactive habits. The more you see them, the freer you become.
So establishing this internal relationship between your True Self and the emotions, the emotional pain, is really, really central to Mindfulness Therapy, at least as I teach it, the particular style that I teach that involves meditating on the emotions.
We do not use meditation to escape from the emotions. We use meditation to bring conscious awareness to the emotions because that is precisely what they need to heal. So this is a path of really stopping that habit of avoidance because that simply feeds the problem.
So whatever the form of anxiety, whether it's generalized anxiety disorder with it is social anxiety disorder, whether it's panic attacks, whether it's driving anxiety, whether it's a phobia, whether it's agoraphobia, fear of flying. Whatever form of anxiety you are struggling with, they will all benefit tremendously from learning how to apply mindfulness and mindfulness meditation correctly to help them heal.
So if you'd like to learn how to do this and you like the idea of working online with a therapist for help with your anxiety, then please contact me. Thank you.
GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE THERAPY OVER SKYPE WITH ME TO HELP YOU OVERCOME ANXIETY and PANIC ATTACKS
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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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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