Online Counseling via Zoom for depression

Online Counseling via Zoom & Skype for depression

Online counseling through a video paltform like Skype or Zoom provides an excellent way to get the help you need for managing anxiety and depression without medication.

Simply talking about your depression is often far from enough to bring about recovery and medications do nothing to change the underlying psychological cause of your depression. You MUST work on chaning the way that you relate to your underlying emotions in order to promote healing. This is the primary focus of Mindfulness Therapy.

Online Mindfulness Therapy for Depression and Anxiety without relying on drugs

See a Psychotherapist Online via Skype for effective online counseling for Anxiety and Depression, Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety and Agoraphobia, Addictions, and other psychological and emotional problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Contact me to discover more about this online psychotherapy service and arrange for a therapy session via Skype with me. Inquiries welcome!

GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE FOR DETAILS AND TO SCHEDULE AN ONLINE THERAPY SESSION WITH ME TO HELP YOU OVERCOME DEPRESSION

Online Therapy via Skype is available for the USA, Canada, UK & Western Europe.

Go to my main website to learn more and to schedule a Skype Therapy session: Online Mindfulness Therapy

ONLINE THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION

Depression has many forms, and you should think of it as a spectrum of emotion ranging from mild mood changes on one end to clinical depression at the other end, which may require medical intervention. You should always consult a doctor id you are suffering from clinical depression. 

However, most people suffer from milder forms of depression that represent the difficulty in adjusting to the many stresses and challenges of life in combination with emotional problems experienced during childhood. Problems from our relationship to our parents, potential emotional and physical abuse create the foundations for depression for many people. You do not necessarily have an illness if you are depressed, you may simply be having a hard time adjusting to trauma or difficult core emotions relating to self-image and poor self-esteem.

For many, depression is more of a dysfunctional habit; the product of negative habitual patterns of thinking, negative beliefs and destructive patterns of behavior, including addictions. The good news is that habits can be changed, and Mindfulness Therapy is one of the most effective ways of working with the underlying core emotions that cause your depression.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy for anxiety and also online therapy for depression. If you'd like to talk to a psychotherapist online for depression then please go to my website. Learn more about this this online service that I provide and then simply e-mail me, ask any questions you may have about online therapy and how the approach that I use can help you overcome your depression. 

I teach mindfulness therapy. That's my specialty and that's what I describe in my book, The Path of Mindfulness Meditation. I find mindfulness therapy to be probably the most effective approach that I know for overcoming depression and also for treating anxiety disorders and any other form of emotional suffering. 

There are two basic concepts in mindfulness therapy that make it so effective for treating depression. 

The first is that we learn how to change our relationship to the depression itself. The real problem for most people is that whenever depression gets triggered by events or by thoughts or other triggers we simply become totally identified or consumed by the emotion and depression. 

This is called reactive identification and this is this the central problem that we tackle during mindfulness therapy. We learn to break this blind habit of identifying with the depression or with anxiety too. We learn to develop a position as the observer of the emotion. This is quite important because when you can strengthen the ability to stay as the observer then you essentially free your self from the grip of the depression, learning to be the opposite of depression instead of becoming overwhelmed by the depression. That's the central focus of mindfulness therapy. 

The second part of mindfulness therapy is very much concerned with looking at the structure of reactive thinking, or rumination that feeds the emotion. So thoughts do not cause depression, but thoughts will feed it if we also become identified with those thoughts and beliefs and memories and other mental content. In the same way we need to develop a mindful relationship with thoughts, we need to break free from the habit of becoming overwhelmed by rumination. 

In this way we get more and more freedom from the depression, itself, the emotion, and the thoughts that feed the emotion, and this is what leads to the resolution and healing of depression, also anxiety and other forms of emotional suffering. 

If you'd like to learn more about how mindfulness therapy can help you with your depression and you are interested in talking to a psychotherapists online through Skype then please send me an e-mail and let's schedule a Skype therapy session. Thank you.

GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE THERAPY VIA SKYPE WITH ME TO HELP YOU OVERCOME DEPRESSION

Online Mindfulness Therapy over Skype for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression without relying on drugs

It is important to check that there are no underlying medical conditions that might be causing your depression, but for most people depression is best described as a psychological habit that is caused when we become overwhelmed by habitual reactive thinking called rumination. During online mindfulness therapy sessions we learn how to transform this habit and resolve the depression.

So the best way to fight depression without drugs and without the use of prescription medications is to work on changing the underlying psychological habits that creates your depression. 

Perhaps the most common underlying psychological habit is that of rumination. This describes patterns of habitual reactive thinking that tend to proliferate in the minds and that feeds the underlying depression. So thoughts do not cause depression but they do feed that depression. One of the best ways to control rumination is by learning some form of mindfulness meditation practice, particularly where we practice on meditating on the mind itself. 

Meditating on breathing is a common mindfulness practice that is a very good relaxation exercise, but what really makes the difference is when you start meditating on the mind. This allows you to start developing more conscious awareness of these patterns of habitual reactive thinking that feed your depression. When you become more aware of them you can begin to break free from the rumination. 

We practice many different mindfulness techniques to help you with this during the online therapy sessions that I teach for managing depression and also anxiety. One of the most effective approaches is called the "Placement Technique" and this is where you learn to greet your thoughts consciously and also in a friendly manner and then move those thoughts to a lower level such as placing them on the floor. This is an interesting exercise to try. Most people have never thought to do this but the position of your thoughts in the mind, the way you see them, is a very important factor in creating the depression. 

Usually the thoughts are too close and too high. That's how we see them, and it's that closeness that becomes menacing, if you like, like a swarm of bees. If you space those thoughts out and create more space around them by moving them, that takes away that menacing quality, the crowding effect of too little space, and that can have a dramatic effect on decreasing the intensity of emotional stress produced by those ruminating thoughts. So you might try practicing this yourself. 

If you'd like to learn more in more detail how to apply this technique, the placement technique, and other mindfulness methods for managing rumination then simply go to my website and email me and let's set up a trial Skype therapy session to help you overcome your depression. 

It's not always necessary to take medications, and in fact medications generally can only relieve symptoms, unless there is an underlying medical condition. But for most people that's not the case. It's simply that they have developed habitual patterns of rumination that feeds the depression. 

So go to my Web site learn more about us mindfulness therapy for depression and anxiety, and if you'd like to schedule a session simply e-mail me and we can arrange a time that works for you and for me. Thank you.|

This online therapy service is available throughout the USA, UK and Western Europe and world-wide. All you need is an internet connection and you are ready to start Skype therapy.

Controlling Anxiety & Depression through Mindfulness Therapy

It is critical that you simply learn to, basically, meditate on your anxiety and depression. You have to from a non-reactive relationship with your emotions. Most of us, of course, react out of habit to our anxiety, depression or other negative emotions with avoidance or some form of aversion and avoidance to those disagreeable emotions. 

We don't want these unpleasant emotions and we strive to eradicate them. This really is really the worst thing you could possibly do, because aversion and avoidance makes the anxiety or depression grow and become stronger. Any kind of reactivity reinforces strengthening the anxiety or depression.

What I've found, and numerous others in the field of Mindfulness Therapy have found, is that what actually accelerates change and transformation is when we can hold the emotion in our conscious awareness without responding with habitual reactivity to the emotions with avoidance and aversion. 

When you do that you're learning how to effectively be with the emotion without becoming reactive and without becoming overwhelmed by it. This trains the mind a totally different manner of processing that emotion, and also this allows the emotion to change, to heal itself and also to transform itself.

Online Counseling via Zoom for depression

GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE THERAPY OVER SKYPE OR ZOOM WITH ME FOR HELP WITH DEPRESSION

Online Therapy via Skype is available for the USA, Canada, UK & Western Europe.

Go to my main website to learn more and to schedule a Skype Therapy session: Online Mindfulness Therapy