Online Help for PTSD

Online Help for PTSD via Skype or Zoom

I am based in Colorado and provide online help for recovering from traumatic memories and PTSD using the very effective techniques of Mindfulness Therapy.

Email me to discover more about this online counseling service and arrange for a Skype session with me. Inquiries welcome!

Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy is an excellent choice for most people because it works on transforming the root cause of your anxiety or depression rather than just treating symptoms. The focus is on teaching you practical tools and methods between sessions. This is why most people see changes very much quicker than is reported for the usual counseling.

Please feel free to email me to find out more about Online Mindfulness-based psychotherapy with me. 

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

"I realized that anxiety disorders and depression were not a disease that I needed to attack. I needed to change the way I reacted to my thoughts and emotions and view life in a different way."

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Learn how to apply mindfulness for breaking free from reactive identification with thoughts, emotional reactions and memories.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness therapist and I offer mindfulness therapy online. If you're interested in mindfulness for trauma and for post-traumatic stress disorder then please go to my website and learn more about mindfulness therapy for recovery from trauma and PTSD, and email me to learn more, to ask any questions you may have, and also to schedule the Skype therapy session with me for PTSD or trauma recovery. 

So during these online therapy sessions I'll be teaching you how to apply mindfulness and mindfulness meditation for aiding your recovery from emotional trauma or PTSD. There are two basic principles that we developed during these online mindfulness therapy sessions for PTSD. The first is the incredibly needed skill of breaking free from the habit of reactive identification with your thoughts and with your own emotional reactions. 

This is by far the biggest problem that creates emotional suffering. So, when thoughts or emotional reactions arise our tendency is to become completely identified with them. And so we become captivated by our thoughts and our memories. We become prisoners of all thoughts and our memories and we become basically controlled by them when we become identified with them. 

So mindfulness training is all about learning how to change the relationship with your thoughts and traumatic memories and emotional reactions so that you do not become identified with them, so that you can see these mental objects as the Observer, the True Self that can see the contents of mind without becoming prisoners of the content of the mind. 

So that's the first most important mindfulness training is learning how to develop what we call "independence" from our mind, from the thoughts, from the memories, from the emotions that arise in the mind. 

The second part of the trauma recovery will involve working with the imagery of the trauma itself. Working with the imagery, changing the imagery, so that it does not cause the emotional trauma, the emotional reaction. It's very easy to do this when we start to develop a conscious, mindful relationship with our trauma. If we continue to react to it, we can't see what's there and if we don't see the nature of that imagery then we can change it. we become a prisoner of it. 

But, once you start to uncover the imagery and see how it actually works you can change the structure of that imagery. One simple technique is to make the imagery smaller, because the imagery of a trauma is generally very large and it has to be large in order to create the emotional trauma. If you can make the image smaller then you will reduce the ability of that memory to produce emotional trauma. 

There are many other things we can do as well with mindfulness, but these are two areas: we work on changing your relationship to your trauma and also changing the imagery itself that is responsible for producing the emotional reactions associated with the trauma. 

If you'd like to learn more about mindfulness for trauma and PTSD recovery, then please go to my website and e-mail me to schedule a Skype therapy session. 

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Contact me to learn more about this online therapy service and schedule a therapy session with me. Inquiries welcome!

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Online Therapy for Recovery from Trauma & PTSD

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist based in Boulder, Colorado and I offer online therapy via Skype for anxiety, for depression, for addictions, and also for working with trauma and PTSD. So if you're looking for an online therapist to help you overcome your trauma then please reach out to me and ask any questions you may have about online therapy and the approach that I use. 

 Feel free to schedule a session with me. The first session is a trial session where we determine if this is the right approach for you. If it is the right approach then we typically would meet once a week for a while, maybe three or four weeks. And during this time I will teach you how to work with your trauma, your emotional trauma, using the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I specialize in.

 So the mindfulness approach that I teach basically helps you process your emotional trauma or traumatic memories more effectively. It's a very focused strategic approach. It is quite different than conventional counseling or talk therapy. This is much more focused on the mechanism that produces trauma in the mind. 

 So the first part of Mindfulness Therapy is learning to develop a balanced and non-reactive relationship with the traumatic memory. This is essential. The biggest problem in the early stages of trauma recovery is that people become identified with the traumatic memory, with the emotions that are triggered by that memory, by reactive thoughts and beliefs that are triggered by those emotions. 

 And when we become identified with the trauma then that basically feeds the trauma and stops it from healing and recovering. 

 So that is the first part of mindfulness training and we do this by meditating on the trauma itself. We deliberately bring it into the mind and practice developing more and more freedom from those patterns of habitual reactivity that feed the trauma. So we learn to sit with the trauma developing more and more freedom. This is called developing "equanimity" and that's a major factor in mindfulness training. I will teach you how to do this. 

 The second very important property that we develop in Mindfulness Therapy is compassion. So that means developing a compassionate relationship with the traumatic emotions that the get triggered by the memory. 

Again, the problem is usually that we try to avoid those emotions or we get into patterns of becoming identified with them again, overwhelmed by those emotions, or we try to avoid them through some form distraction or even through substance abuse. We try to get away from them. But this is the wrong approach. They will not heal if you do not develop a compassionate relationship as well as a non-reactive relationship with those emotions and memories. 

 The third part of recovery from trauma and any other intense emotions that are associated with that trauma is to change the imagery of the memory image and also the emotions. 

So the traumatic memory has its particular memory imagery and that imagery has certain properties that make it difficult to heal, to recover from. So typically, if the memory imagery is very intense, then it is going to be very large in size. It's going to be very close, and it's going to be very detailed, in terms of color and content, it's going to be very sharp in detail.

So we work on changing that imagery, the memory imagery. We work on changing it.

We can also work with the imagery of the emotions themselves, whether it's fear or whether it's terror or anxiety or depression or grief. All of these emotions have their own imagery that sustains those emotions. So as well as developing a non-reactive relationship and a compassionate relationship with those emotions, we also investigate their imagery and we explore changing that imagery. 

So when traumatic emotions heal they do so by changing their imagery. During Mindfulness Therapy and mindfulness meditation we speed up this natural process, by deliberately exploring how to change that imagery consciously and then finding what works. We call this Mindfulness-based Imagery Reprocessing.

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