Online Psychotherapy by Skype

Online Psychotherapy by Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression through Mindfulness Therapy

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Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy is an excellent choice for most people because it works on transforming the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression rather than just treating symptoms. The focus is on teaching you practical tools and techniques that you can apply yourself between sessions. This is why most people see results very much faster than the usual talking therapy.

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

"After just three sessions with Peter my OCD’s strength was cut in half, and then a few more sessions – it no longer had control over me. Even if intrusive thoughts came back they did not cause any or very little anxiety. My sleep got 1000% better, appetite came back."

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

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Online Mindfulness based Therapy via Skype for Overcoming Anxiety & Depression without using drugs 

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional online therapist. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy and I offer Mindfulness Therapy via Skype for overcoming anxiety and depression without relying on medications. 

 So medications have their place, but it's really important to understand that medications cannot change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression. The medications are designed simply to treat symptoms. So that is not a good long-term strategy. You are far better to spend your time and efforts in trying to change the underlying psychological cause of your anxiety or depression. 

The underlying psychological cause of emotional suffering, whatever form it takes, is generally in the form of reactive habits, habitual formations that keep reoccurring when the conditions are right. So whenever there's an appropriate trigger it triggers this internal psychological habit and that habit creates the anxiety or depression. This is what we need to work with and that's the focus of Mindfulness Therapy, which I teach online via Skype. 

It works very well when delivered online because the primary focus is teaching you methods of working with your emotions that you can apply yourself. It's teaching you the tools for working with your anxiety or depression to facilitate healing. And that's the point of Mindfulness Therapy and other forms of psychotherapy. The primary goal is to heal, is to basically change the underlying cause of that suffering so that you no longer experience anxiety or depression. That's the purpose of good psychotherapy and that's certainly the purpose of Mindfulness Therapy. 

We use Skype so you can see each other. That's very important. And if you can see each other then there's no difference in the quality of psychotherapy whether it's delivered online or in person. It's not a significant factor. 

 So in Mindfulness Therapy we turn mindfulness to look at our anxiety or depression directly. Mindfulness is a form of consciousness; it's really simply learning to see things clearly with out becoming reactive and without becoming identified with your emotional habits. That is the first part of mindfulness training, is how to become the observe, how to see your emotions and the thoughts that feed those emotions, without becoming identified with them, without becoming lost in the emotion and the reactive thoughts that feed that emotion. 

 This is very important. When you can disengage from that reactive process you will stop feeding the anxiety or depression and when you stop feeding it then the emotion will continue its path of change. The only thing that stops it healing is that reactivity itself. So learning to overcome this identification with habitual reactivity is central for promoting healing. 

 Another part of Mindfulness Therapy is actually looking at the structure of the emotion and this involves looking at the imagery of the emotion. So another principle in mindfulness psychology is that emotions are based around internal habitual imagery. The way you see the emotion in the mind is what keeps that emotion intact. That structure is what keeps that emotion together. So we look at this imagery. 

 When emotions heal naturally they do so by changing their imagery. In meditation we are simply increasing the rate of change because we're bringing consciousness to bear on this. So changing the color, changing the position, changing the size, is really important. When people feel overwhelmed by an emotion that implies that the emotion is very large. It also gives you an indication of its position as well. Helping the emotion become smaller is what the emotion needs to do to heal. Lowering its position from a high position to a lower position is what the emotion is to do to heal.

 I see people all over the world. We can usually find a time that works in spite of time differences. So please don't be afraid to contact me if you live outside of the US. I see lots of people in Western Europe and as far away as Japan and Australia. 

 So please contact me if you would like to get started with mindfulness-based therapy via Skype and you liked the idea of learning how to change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression instead of just relying on medications to treat symptoms. Thank you. 

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Therapy via Skype for overcoming anxiety and depression

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I offer therapy via Skype as an alternative to conventional in-person therapy sessions. Online therapy provides an excellent way to get effective help for managing anxiety, for overcoming depression or for help with recovery from an addiction.

There is really no difference in the quality of service, whether therapy is online or in-person. In both situations you are able to see each other and talk to each other in real time, and that's the main factor. Now, of course, there are some styles of psychotherapy that require a much more intimate connection between the psychotherapist and the client. But most forms of psychotherapy are really concerned with teaching you better ways of managing your emotions. That's an educational process and that can work very well online as we are indeed seeing with higher education, which is now very commonly offered online as well as in the classroom.

So, during the online therapy sessions that I offer via Skype I will be teaching you Mindfulness Therapy, which is a particular way of working with emotions that helps you really change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression, rather than just treating the symptoms. This is quite a different approach than traditional talk therapy.

Mindfulness Therapy is similar to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, in that it works at the mechanistic level, the actual mechanism that causes your emotional suffering. With cognitive therapy you are, of course, working on changing recurrent thought patterns that are negative and dysfunctional into positive thought patterns that are life-enhancing and lead to a better sense of well-being. And that's fine, that's a very good approach.

However, in my experience, many clients come to me, having tried CBT and complain that although they have been working hard to change their thoughts, it doesn't actually change the way they feel. They still suffer from the same anxiety or depression, and this is because the thoughts are actually the byproduct of something else, and that is the underlying core emotions. The thoughts are the byproduct of emotion.

You have to work directly with the anxiety and depression or addiction, looking into the structure of how that emotion works. When you can change the emotion the thoughts will change themselves. They will simply adapt to the new state of emotion that has developed.

So, really the key to lasting change and well-being is to change things at the emotional level. In Mindfulness Therapy we do just this, we essentially focus mindfulness, which is a form of conscious awareness, directly on our emotions.

So, in Mindfulness Therapy you focus directly on changing your emotions, on helping them heal, and we do this in a number of different ways, which you can read about on my website and by watching some of the videos on my website.

If you would like to learn more about Mindfulness Therapy via Skype, do please CONTACT ME and then we can schedule a trial Skype therapy session. There is no upfront payment required for a trial session. It is your opportunity to see if this approach is going to work for you. If it is effective for you and notice changes within that first session and you would like to continue online therapy with me, then you pay for that trial session and we would set up a follow-on session. Typically I see people on a weekly basis until they have learned the skills that they need and achieved the results that they are looking to achieve in reducing anxiety or depression or overcoming an addiction.

Most people can expect to see results quite quickly with Mindfulness Therapy because it is so directly focused on changing that underlying habitual process that creates the emotions.

So, if you would like to schedule a therapy session with me please send me an email. Ask any questions you may have and then, when you feel ready, we can schedule a Skype therapy session. Thank you.

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Online Mental Health Therapy via Skype

Good mental health refers to the state in which you are easily able to manage the ups and downs of life without becoming overwhelmed by anxiety or depression. Training in mindfulness provides an excellent way to establish goof mental health.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy and I offer online therapy via Skype for mental health. 

When we talk about mental health here we are talking about non clinical conditions such as anxiety and depression or OCD or PTSD or any other form of emotional suffering that can benefit from Mindfulness Therapy. 

So it's about helping you develop more well-being, a sense of being at ease, being able to process the ups and downs of life more effectively without becoming emotionally overwhelmed. And really that's the definition of mental health, is being able to process experience without becoming stuck in an emotional state that doesn't resolve itself such as chronic depression or chronic anxiety, such as with an anxiety disorder like agoraphobia. I see lots of people who suffer from agoraphobia because, of course, it's very convenient for an agoraphobic to get help from an online therapist. It's much easier than trying to arrange to go to a therapist's office. 

Another group of people that I have helped considerably over the years have been people suffering from driving phobia or extreme driving anxiety. This is another limiting factor that makes online therapy very attractive. 

Perhaps the greatest and most important thing to consider when you are looking for an online therapist is that they offer therapy via Skype. You must be able to see each other as well as talk to each other in real time. If you can do that then basically it's no different than meeting a therapist in person. 

For the vast majority of cases many of my clients actually greatly prefer online therapy, not just because of its convenience, but also because it feels more comfortable. You will feel more in charge of the process, and this is an important factor because you need to be learning how to manage your emotions more effectively to achieve optimum mental health and that means putting you in charge. 

So I don't advocate treatment based approaches or medications because they do not put you in charge. They do not teach you skills for more successfully managing life experiences. So, in Mindfulness Therapy you focus very much on teaching you practical skills that you can apply yourself to work with your emotions and to break free from those underlying psychological habits that cause anxiety or depression or OCD or PTSD. 

In the case of anxiety what happens is that these underlying psychological habits get triggered by events or situations or thoughts, and when they get triggered they proliferate and create the anguish of emotional suffering that has the effect of limiting your state of well-being and also limiting your quality of life and the quality of your work and your relationships as well. 

So in Mindfulness Therapy we focus very much on these underlying emotional habits and we bring consciousness to them. That is what mindfulness is, after all. It's a form of non-reactive consciousness that sees directly what is there in front of it. 

We look first of all for the cluster of related reactive thoughts that feed the anxiety of depression: Patterns of rumination, patterns of chronic worrying, where we become identified with these thoughts where we become swept away by these reactive thoughts and essentially become a prisoner of reactive thoughts. 

We also look at limiting beliefs as well, another set of thoughts that we tend to identify with and that tend to feed anxiety and depression and limit our mental health. So breaking free from limiting beliefs is a very important part of Mindfulness Therapy. 

It is very practical, very hands on. And because of that it gets results very quickly, and I always say that you should expect to see significant improvements in your state of wellbeing and mental health within three to four sessions once you start applying the mindfulness methods that I will teach you. 

Online Mindfulness-based Therapy via Skype for Recovering from Anxiety and Depression without using drugs 

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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