Online Psychotherapy over Skype for treating depression

Online Psychotherapy over Skype for treating depression and anxiety

During online Skype therapy sessions you will learn how to manage your depression through the application of the mindfulness techniques that I will teach you.

Skype Therapy - psychotherapy over Skype

Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy is very effective and most of my clients see significant results after just a few sessions with me.

Mindfulness Meditation Therapy is an excellent choice for most people because it works on healing the root 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 of my clients notice improvements very much quicker than is reported for the more conventional counseling.

Please feel free to email me if you would like to schedule Skype therapy sessions with me. 

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

"Dr. Strong provides a helpful mix of talk therapy and practical mindful meditation techniques. Our visits have led to a reduction in my anxiety and alcohol abuse, in a short amount of time."

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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

Speak to a Psychotherapist Online through Skype for highly effective online treatment for Depression and Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Addictions, PTSD and Traumatic Stress or any other forms of emotional stress that do not require medical treatment. 

Contact me to find out more about this online therapy service and to organize a therapy session via Skype with me.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I provide online mindfulness therapy over Skype.

Mindfulness Therapy is a very, very effective way of dealing with anxiety and also depression. The reason why it is so effective is because it is the most direct method there is for actually changing the pathways that create anxiety and depression in the mind.

The primary cause of anxiety and depression is habitual reactive pathways of avoidance and resistance to anxiety or depression or any other emotions, for that matter, that become chronic.

When we inadvertently establish these patterns of avoidance and aversion, it effectively prevents the anxiety or depression from healing. It simply feeds those emotional habits.

With Mindfulness Therapy, we start to actually bring the opposite of avoidance and the opposite of resistance to those emotions that need our help. We cultivate conscious awareness of our anxiety or depression and we also develop compassion and friendliness towards those emotions.

We start to see that those emotions are simply parts of our self that is in pain and that requires our compassion and our conscious awareness in order to heal themselves.

If we set up pathways of avoidance and resistance then we set up pathways that prevent those emotions from ever healing.

During Mindfulness Therapy sessions, we learn very practical and very direct methods for developing this extremely important relationship based on consciousness and friendliness, or compassion. This combination of consciousness and friendliness, or compassion, is the definition of mindfulness.

When you bring this quality of mind to emotional suffering, it heals. Then the emotions actually learn how to heal themselves through connection with this consciousness and friendliness that you establish. That is what they need to heal.

The best analogy here would be: think of a child. If a child is in pain, what doe it most need to heal that pain, that emotional suffering? The answer is that it most needs is connection with its parents, with its mother or father. That connection allows it to access the consciousness and compassion and friendliness of the parent, which allows that emotion to resolve itself within the child.

So, this quality of connection between your True Self, which is like the parent, and your emotional suffering, anxiety, depression, whatever it may be, which is like the child. This quality of connection is what really creates the proper psychological conditions that lead to healing, and this is what is required for anxiety and depression to resolve themselves. You are teaching the emotions how to resolve themselves through access to your True Self.

This is what I have found, over and over again, to be the most important thing there is that you can do.

If you would like to learn more about therapy over Skype using mindfulness, go to my website and read more about Mindfulness Therapy. If you would like to schedule a Skype therapy session with me, then simply email me and we can arrange a time that works for you.

I see people all over the world who have a specific interest in mindfulness and how to apply mindfulness for healing emotional suffering. So, I look forward to hearing from you.

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Online Therapy for Depression and Anxiety

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I provide Mindfulness Therapy over Skype. I have been teaching Mindfulness Therapy for 12 years now and I find it to be extremely effective for working with anxiety and also depression and addictions and many of the common psychological and emotional problems that we experience in life. 

The mindfulness approach is extremely good for working with the mind, with emotions and with thoughts and with traumatic memories also. We learn how to develop a mindful, conscious relationship with our mind. That means we learn how to meditate on the mind. Most people are not used to this approach. They try to either get away from the mind. They may even use meditation to escape the mind, but this is in my opinion the wrong approach. 

We should be learning how to change the relationship that we have with the mind. If you avoid painful emotions or painful thoughts or painful memories then that will basically feed the emotional pain and it will not heal. So avoidance is not a good strategy. And really, any form of reactivity that takes consciousness away from the mind is going to simply leave those emotional reactive habits intact. It will not promote healing. So mindfulness is about developing more consciousness of the mind, not less. 

We do this by meditating on our thoughts, on our emotions, on our memories, on anything that is in a state of suffering, is not resolved properly. So we hold our emotions in the mind. We learn how to build a relationship that is non-reactive and fully present with the emotions or thoughts or memories. 

This is what promotes change and healing: the quality of that non-reactive relationship. Reactivity, whether it's avoidance or aversion or whether it's even just talking about the emotion or labeling it or judging it in some way. 

Any form of reactivity like that will simply feed the underlying habits and will stop it changing. But when you do the opposite, that is cultivate a conscious, mindful relationship with the emotion or other mental objects, then that allows healing to take place. 

It's rather like being by a fire. The nature of the fire is to burn itself out. That is its natural path. But we inadvertently feed the fire by throwing fuel on it. Well reactivity is like that fuel, it feeds the fire of anxiety or depression or any other form of emotional suffering. So the first step in mindfulness training is learning how to overcome that habit of reactivity to our emotional pain whether that's anxiety or depression. 

The second part of mindfulness training is to investigate the structure of your emotions. So this means looking at the imagery of the emotion. What color is it? How large is it? Is it large or small? What is the position of the emotion? How do you see it in the mind? Do you see it above you and does it feel overwhelming? Does it weigh heavily on you? People often experience painful emotions rather like a weight or something heavy weighing down on them. 

What color is it? Very important. Most people, when they look at an emotion like anger, they will see the color red. Depression has the color black, and so on. These colors are all part of the imagery. Now that imagery is what actually creates the emotion. It's what holds it together. So investigating the imagery of our emotions is very important. And when we change that imagery we help the emotion heal. 

So there is a direct relationship between the emotion and the emotional imagery. And when you change one, you change the other. So that is described as the response of compassion, which is a strong part of Mindfulness Therapy. It is not sufficient to just see the emotion and not react to it. We must respond by helping it heal and we do that by changing his imagery. 

So Mindfulness Therapy is an interesting, exciting and really quite novel approach for most people. People really enjoy working with their mind in this way, actually getting to see how their mind works and then developing those skills that promote healing and wellbeing. 

Because it's so focused, Mindfulness Therapy is usually very, very quick at producing substantial changes and improvements. Most people see quite remarkable improvements after just three or four Skype Therapy sessions with me.

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Therapy over Skype using Mindfulness Therapy

See a Therapist Online through Skype for effective online mindfulness-based therapy for Anxiety and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Addictions, PTSD and Traumatic Stress or any other emotional problems that do not require medical treatment. 

Contact me to find out more about this online therapy service and to book a therapy session with me.

Skype-based Mindfulness Therapy is immensely effective for treating anxiety and depression and proves very helpful for recovery from addiction, OCD and PTSD trauma.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional online therapist and I provide therapy over Skype for anxiety and depression and other emotional difficulties.

Therapy over Skype is a very convenient way to get the help that you may be looking for, but I think it has a lot of other advantages too. First of all, if you are suffering from anxiety then it is very difficult and challenging to leave home and go and see a therapist. 

For people with anxiety, that is just too much for much of the time and they will not seek help because of that barrier. So Skype therapy has a much lower barrier for you the client. It is just a lot more relaxed and friendly and practically oriented. It is not clinical.

Skype therapy is a way of really learning very practical and well-tested mindfulness-based strategies for overcoming long-standing patterns of anxiety or chronic depression or even for recovery from addiction.

The Mindfulness Therapy approach is all about helping you look at the process itself that creates those emotional states; the internal imagery, for example, that is at the heart of all emotions.

We investigate the structure of your emotions, the structure of your emotional imagery using mindfulness.

The more conscious you become, the more that you see the structure of how you actually create that anxiety or depression in the mind the more you can change those habitual processes.

Anxiety and depression are habits; they are simply learned habits, and like any habit, it thrives on unawareness, not being seen. But once you start to investigate that habit and shine conscious awareness on it, or mindfulness, then the habit begins to change itself. You can help it change its structure and break free from those patterns of emotional reactivity.

It is actually much easier than you might think. The defining factor is really looking at your emotions and seeing how they work. This is quite different than talk therapy or standard counseling. We are not here to talk about our emotions so much as we want to change the process that creates the emotions.

Talk therapy has its place, but it only really provides a temporary relief from the symptoms of anxiety or depression; it doesn't really change that underlying process that creates the anxiety.

So, that is what we do during the mindfulness therapy sessions that I offer online through Skype. So, if you are interested in therapy over Skype with me, please go to my website and simply email me. Ask any questions you have and then we can schedule a Skype therapy session at your convenience to help you break free from patterns of emotional suffering.

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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