Online Skype Therapy for OCD

Online Skype Therapy for OCD

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Online Mindfulness Therapy through Skype for Managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Intrusive Overthinking without using anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants.

Mindfulness Therapy provides an effective approach for reducing obsessive-intrusive thoughts and behaviors by teaching you how to work with your OCD thoughts and impulses using mindfulness training and the methods of Mindfulness Therapy.

To successfully overcome OCD and obsessive-intrusive thoughts you MUST learn how to neutralize the underlying emotion, usually fear, that fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.

This is the primary focus of Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for recovery from OCD and is what I will be teaching you during our online therapy sessions together.

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"Mindfulness therapy has helped me with my anxiety in a very significant way. No longer am I bound to my anxiety in a continuous circle. I’ve been able to see my anxiety for what it truly is, and it has liberated me. Thank you Peter."

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be treated online via Skype or Zoom

Thoughts are one form of mental object and are fundamentally the same as any other mental object that comes through the sense doors. You need to use meditation to train yourself to stay present with intrusive thoughts and emotions without falling into the habit of reacting to those mental objects. Just as you have learned how to meditate on the breath so too you can learn to meditate on thoughts. When you overcome the habit of reacting, the thoughts become progressively less intrusive, lose their emotional strength and heal. Meditation (vipassana) in this way strengthens the natural healing pathways in the mind. The problem is in that habitual reactivity to the thoughts; vipassana teaches you how to overcome this habit.

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Through Mindfulness Therapy we learn how to neutralize obsessive and intrusive thoughts, images and memories as well as neutralizing the compulsive impulses of compulsive behaviors.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression and OCD and other emotional problems using mindfulness therapy and mindfulness-based techniques rather than medications or the conventional talking therapy that you may be familiar with. 

Mindfulness Therapy really tries to address the underlying process that causes your anxiety or depression or problem with intrusive thoughts and obsessive-compulsive disorder. 

So Skype Therapy for OCD is one of the services that I offer. All my online therapy is done via Skype. It's very important that you use Skype or FaceTime or similar video platform because it's important that you can see each other during these sessions. This makes the therapy sessions much more effective.

During the online Skype therapy sessions that I offer I'll be teaching you how to work with the two primary elements of OCD.

So excessively worrying about that and obsessing over hygiene is one kind of reactive thinking that greatly accentuates the underlying anxiety. The thinking fuels anxiety feeds anxiety and it intensifies the anxiety. So that's one kind of thinking process. 

The other kind of problems that people run into with thinking is intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts, intrusive images, intrusive memories. So this is sometimes called "Pure O" sort of a pure form of obsession that is caused by intrusive thoughts that really upsets the minds and cause considerable anxiety. 

So that's one side of the work. We work with these obsessive or intrusive thoughts. On the other side of OCD is working with the compulsive behaviors. 

So the thoughts convert into behaviors like hand washing or trying to clean every surface in the house multiple times over, or whatever it might be. The compulsive behavior is a response to the obsessive thinking. 

We would typically imagine the obsessive-compulsive thought or activity, we would play it through in the mind and we would watch to see what kind of emotion is triggered. Typically, fear or anxiety, but it could be other emotions as I say. When we see that emotion we then start to build a relationship with the emotion itself based on consciousness, that's where the mindfulness comes in. 

The second part of our work in mindfulness therapy is to see how those emotions work, to look at their structure. And it's become very clear to me through working with people over many years now, that the primary structure of the emotions, it is not thoughts, it is imagery. 

So the thoughts are products of the emotion, but what causes the emotion is imagery, psychological imagery. The way that you see that fear or anxiety in the mind is what determines its intensity and that in turn leads to the propagation of thoughts and compulsive activities. 

So we examine this imagery in great detail during mindfulness work on our OCD. We literally meditate on those thoughts and the emotions underneath the thoughts to see how they work, to look at their imagery, to see what it is about the imagery that causes them to be intense, that creates that intense emotional charge. 

So if you would like to learn more about how to work with either obsessive thinking or intrusive thoughts, memories and images, and also to work with compulsive behaviors, then please contact me. Let's schedule an online psychotherapy session via Skype. 

Skype Therapy for OCD is a very effective way of learning how to manage OCD. Most people see quite dramatic changes after the first three or four sessions. Once you learn how to apply mindfulness to work with your OCD you'll see very encouraging results.

So if you're interested in Skype Therapy for OCD then please reach out to me. Contact me. Tell me more about your particular situation. Tell me what times and days work for you and then we can go ahead and schedule the first Skype Therapy session to help you overcome your obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Welcome! If you'd like to learn how to cure OCD intrusive thoughts then you might want to consider a few sessions of online Mindfulness Therapy with me. 

Mindfulness Therapy is a very effective way of working with intrusive thoughts and obsessive thoughts in general. It helps you learn how to change the relationship that you have to thoughts in general, so that you don't become overwhelmed by them, that you don't become identified with thoughts. 

That is the first key training in Mindfulness Therapy, is how to be with your thoughts without becoming reactive, without becoming identified with them, without allowing them to dominates the mind. It is possible to sit with your thoughts and see them as objects in the mind the same way that you could sit with a dangerous animal and watch it, without becoming overwhelmed with fear. 

Let us imagine a trip to the zoo. We see animals in the zoo that could be very dangerous if we didn't have a good relationship with them. In that case we are separated by the cage that the animals are in. It is possible to put your thoughts into a cage too if necessary. 

But the thing is, when you work with your thoughts using mindfulness you can basically create the right internal situation whereby you can be with that thought without becoming overwhelmed. 

So the primary way we do this is by actually meditating on our thoughts. We deliberately choose to meditate on our intrusive thoughts but we do it under controlled circumstances. We make the choice to invite this thought into the mind for the purpose of training with it, so that's quite different. 

The main problem with OCD intrusive thoughts is that they there's no consciousness involved. They just arise spontaneously in a habitual conditioned manner and then create emotional suffering. But we can change that by choosing to invite a scary thought into the mind, but on our terms, and that makes all the difference. 

So building a real relationship with the thoughts in which we learn how to become less and less reactive is a primary function that we develop during mindfulness therapy sessions. Another thing that is quite interesting and that I will teach you and show you how to do during these therapy sessions, is how to work with the imagery of the thoughts. 

So any thought that has an emotional charge to it will have associated emotional imagery. The most simple example of that is that the emotional charge of the thought appears very large and very close and usually above us. 

That's why we say "I feel overwhelmed" by the thought, because literally we seem the thought above us. And it has to be big in order to be overwhelming. And it has to be very close to be overwhelming. So the imagery of the thought is really quite important. Actually, I would say it's vitally important. 

When we meditate on our thoughts consciously we get to see this imagery and when we see the imagery then we can change that imagery because all emotional imagery is a product of habit, of conditioning, and habits can be changed when we develop a conscious relationship with the habit. 

So we look at the imagery of our emotions, our emotionally charged thoughts, and we help change that imagery and diminish the emotional charge of the thoughts. 

So this is working with the emotions underneath the thoughts in a very productive and positive way that leads to the resolution and basically the healing of the thoughts so it no longer has that emotional charge that makes it intrusive. 

So this is a very effective way of working with obsessive thoughts, with intrusive thoughts, and for basically neutralizing them so that they don't catalyze compulsive behaviors which is the second stage of OCD. 

After the intrusive thoughts comes compulsive behaviors. But those behaviors are powered by the emotional charge of the intrusive thoughts. 

So if you would like to learn more about how to cure OCD, how to basically neutralize those intrusive thoughts and break out of the very scary place that OCD intrusive thoughts create, do please send me an email and let's schedule a trial therapy session via Skype, and I will show you how to work with your thoughts using mindfulness. 

Mindfulness Therapy is by far the most effective method out there, besides CBT, and most people that I work with see quite dramatic changes within the first three to four sessions. So please contact me and let's schedule a session. Thank you.

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Online Mindfulness Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and intrusive thoughts through Skype

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy which I teach online through Skype. One particular area that I work a great deal with is obsessive-compulsive disorder. 

So I offer online Mindfulness Therapy for OCD by Skype. 

So at the heart of OCD, of course, there are a selection of intrusive thoughts that have a very high emotional charge and tend to compel you into unwanted, unnecessary and sometimes disturbing behaviors. 

So the secret of overcoming OCD is to work with these intrusive thoughts and to neutralize them, to remove that emotional charge so that they no longer feed the compulsive behaviors. 

So in Mindfulness Therapy we do this by actually meditating on those thoughts. Now this is quite different than the standard approach to working with intrusive OCD thoughts. Here we are deliberately bringing them into consciousness so that we can change our relationship to those thoughts, so that we no longer become identified with them through the reactive process we call "reactive identification.” 

This is quite important because if you don't break that first step of reactive identification with intrusive thoughts then there's nothing to really to stop those intrusive thoughts from taking over and creating suffering. So we deliberately meditate on those thoughts. But we're doing it now on our terms. Doing it consciously. It's our choice to do this and that makes all the difference. 

So the way it works is you make a list of your intrusive thoughts, the ones that compel you to obsessive-compulsive behaviors and then you train with each thought until you have broken that habit of reactive identification. 

Basically you bring the thought into your mind and you train to sit with that thought without reacting or identifying with it. So you can hold the thought in the mind without becoming reactive and without falling into the reactive thinking that usually proliferates from the first reactive intrusive thought. You can train out of that habits of reactivity and that's the first most important step. 

The second step in Mindfulness Therapy is neutralizing the emotional charge of those intrusive thoughts. And this is quite interesting because from my research over the years and practical experience, it's quite clear to me that the major factor that causes the emotional charge of an intrusive thought is its imagery. The way you see it in the mind is what actually gives it that emotional intensity. 

You look at that imagery, you look at his properties, the different qualities that make that imagery so intense. Typically, of course, intrusive thoughts are going to be very large in size. So the size of that imagery is a major factor that determines its intensity. 

Also its position. If it is in a very dominating position we are likely to feel overwhelmed by the thought, and that's why it feels overwhelming because we see it literally above us. We see it in a high position in our mental internal visual field. That position gives it power. 

So very typical ways of working with the emotional aspect of intrusive thoughts would involve making them smaller and moving them to a lower level, putting them on the ground, for example. It's quite interesting how you can really change the intensity of a thought or belief or a memory by changing its size and its position. 

So that's one way that we approach neutralizing the intrusive thoughts. There are many other aspects of the imagery we can work with such as color, texture and so on. The more that you see of its imagery the more that you can change, and the more you change the imagery of the thought the less power it has. 

So that's a very classic way that we use to work with intrusive thoughts, to neutralize their charge so that they no longer feel overwhelming and are no longer able to compel us into unwanted behaviors. 

So if you like to learn more about online Mindfulness Therapy for OCD using these and other techniques that I teach, then please reach out to me and send me an email. Tell me more about your particular circumstances and what you are struggling with and let schedule a trial therapy session.

So if you would like to learn more about this very exciting and interesting way of working with intrusive thoughts, then do please contact me. Thank you.

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