Online Mindfulness Therapy California
Online Mindfulness Therapy California
Online Mindfulness Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD & Stress Management and Addiction Recovery is available via Skype in
California, including:
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacremento, Long Beach, Oakland, Bay Area, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara
Skype therapy sessions of Mindfulness Therapy
The primary focus of Mindfulness Therapy is to treat the underlying psychological cause of your anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction, stress, PTSD and emotional trauma and other forms of emotional suffering rather than just trying to manage symptoms through medication.
Mindfulness Therapy is a form of Buddhist Psychotherapy based on the teachings of Buddhist Psychology, which focuses on teaching you how to change the relationship that you have with your mind, your thoughts, beliefs, memories, and especially your emotions. The primary goal is to cultivate freedom in relationship to your mind instead of trying to control and "fix" the mind.
Mindfulness is a special form of consciousness, characterized by direct awareness and non-reactivity (equanimity, upekkha), love (metta), compassion (karuna) and joy (mudita). Mindfulness Therapy focuses on applying these qualities to promote healing of emotional suffering (dukha) and to enhance wellbeing and happiness within and without, in your mind and in your personal and societal relationships.
Everyone can benefit from developing greater kindness and compassion toward the mind and the inner emotional pain that causes suffering. When that inner relationship is right, then it purifies our outer relationships, too. Happiness within = happiness without.
I offer Mindfulness Therapy online via Skype or Zoom to make these extraordinary teachings available to anyone, anywhere.
Almost everyone who seeks my help has already tried conventional counseling. This may be excellent for treating acute emotional problems, but most people tell me that it is seldom sufficient to overcome chronic anxiety or depression. Most of my clients have tried prescription medications and are looking for an alternative approach, a more holistic approach that focuses on healing rather than just trying to reduce symptoms.
Mindfulness Therapy (Skype Therapy) focuses on teaching you how to work with your mind, giving you practical tools that you can apply yourself to promote healing and wellbeing. In this way it is quite different from the treatment-based approaches of clinical psychotherapy.
Everyone that I have worked with really enjoys the Mindfulness Therapy approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…
"My sessions with Peter have been transformational…I changed more after 2 weeks of online counseling than after 2 years of talking therapy."
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During these Skype therapy sessions I will teach you how to apply mindfulness for promoting recovery from all forms of anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, OCD, depression, and for help with and other emotional problems, by applying the very successful methods of Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy.
This approach is very effective and you will see significant improvements after 3-4 online sessions with me.
Online Mindfulness Psychotherapy is very effective for managing anxiety and depression without using medications. It is far better to treat the cause of your emotional suffering rather than just trying to manage symptoms.
The principle healing factors developed during mindfulness-based psychotherapy are Conscious Awareness, which is vital for neutralizing the psychological habits that cause anxiety and depression, and Inner Compassion, which is what allows healing and resolution of emotional suffering.
"The insights that I have gained in the first two sessions of online counseling are proving invaluable. Now I can see a way through my anxiety for the first time. Mindfulness Therapy is amazing."
Learn how to break free from anxiety or depression. Speak to a Psychotherapist Online using Skype for effective online counseling for Anxiety Disorders and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, OCD, Addictions, PTSD or any other emotional problems that do not require medical treatment. Contact me to find out more about this online psychotherapy service and to schedule a therapy session with me.
This online counseling therapy service is available throughout the USA, UK and Western Europe and world-wide. All you need is a good internet connection and you can start Skype therapy with me.
Conventional counseling can be beneficial, but often common talk therapy does not look at the underlying psychological process that creates your anxiety and depression.
The same can be said for medications - the antidepressant may relieve symptoms for a while, but medications can not are not effective for changing the underlying psychological process that causes your emotional suffering.
The school of psychotherapy that I offer is known as Mindfulness Therapy, which can be extremely successful for overcoming anxiety and for treating depression and other emotional difficulties caused by habitual reactive thinking. Most of my clients see quite substantial improvements after 3-4 sessions of Skype Therapy.
The advantage of using Skype is that it means that client and psychotherapist can see each other and this will make the psychotherapy process far more effective. Email counseling has been around for decades but it will never be as effective as therapy via Skype or other video interface.
Skype Therapy Service - Online Therapy - Get help from a Therapist online using Skype for highly effective online counseling for Depression and Anxiety, Social Anxiety and Agoraphobia, Addictions, and other forms of emotional stress, including PTSD.
Contact me to find out more about this online counseling service and to organize a Skype therapy session with me.
This online psychotherapy service is available throughout the USA, UK and Western Europe and world-wide. All you need is a good internet connection and you are ready to start online therapy using Skype.
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Online Therapist for overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks
So as a professional psychotherapist I am often asked by my clients: Is it possible to overcome anxiety without using medications? Is it possible to heal from anxiety without using medications? And the answer is yes it is.
So medications have a place, but they should only be used as a short term way of managing the symptoms of anxiety. If you really want to recover from anxiety and you want to break free from your dependence on anxiety medications then you need to address the underlying psychological cause of your anxiety.
So anxiety, like any other form of emotional suffering including depression, is basically psychological in nature. It is caused by a psychological process. Now that process may be triggered by many different factors including a chemical imbalance in the body or brain, hormonal problems, and so on. There are many different types of triggers. But the important thing for you to understand is that those triggers trigger a psychological mechanism that creates the experience of anxiety and that is basically a habit. It's a psychological habit and that habit can be changed. And if you want to re recover from anxiety fully you have to change that habit. And that's what I focus on during my online therapy sessions for anxiety.
As an online therapist for anxiety, I will teach you how to apply mindfulness to heal that underlying habit that causes your anxiety. You do this by actively cultivating a conscious and compassionate relationship with our emotions. We effectively learn how to meditate on our anxiety. This is the best way to promote the healing and recovery from anxiety.
You have to change the way that you relate to it. You have to change from being reactive towards your anxiety to being compassionate towards your anxiety. If you fall into the habit of becoming reactive you simply feed the anxiety and it cannot heal. But if you generate and cultivate a relationship based on compassion with your anxiety then you create the right conditions that allow that anxiety to heal itself.
So it is the quality of your relationship with your anxiety that is the key factor for recovery from anxiety. The more that you can develop that compassionate relationship that is non-reactive, the more that you effectively teach the anxiety how to heal itself.
So we do this by meditating on our anxiety. We cultivate that quality of mindful relationship with it that allows it to learn how to heal itself. We can also help the anxiety heal by interacting with it. One of the most effective ways known for interacting with any kind of emotion, including anxiety and depression, is to interact with the imagery of that emotion.
So all emotions are based around imagery. It's how you see the emotion in the mind that really determines how strong that emotion is.
During our meditation on our anxiety we explore this imagery and then we explore changing the imagery. Because when you change that imagery you change the emotion.
So that's one of the methods that we can employ to help the anxiety learn how to change itself, by changing his imagery.
If you would like to learn more about the mindful approach to working with anxiety and you would like to learn how to overcome your anxiety without medication. And you also like the idea of working with an online therapist for your anxiety, then please contact me.
Go to my website, learn more about the mindfulness therapy approach and then e-mail me and let's schedule a Skype Therapy session.
You will see changes after the first session, when you start applying the mindfulness techniques that I will teach you. And in subsequent sessions we will refine these methods until you become self-sufficient and that you will know how to manage your anxiety using mindfulness therapy methodology. The process is very, very effective indeed and most people see dramatic improvements after the first few sessions. Even After that very first session you should expect to see significant changes.
So you would like to get started with me and you'd like to work on your anxiety using mindfulness, then please contact me now and let schedule a therapy session via Skype. Thank you.
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ONLINE MINDFULNESS 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.
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Skype therapy sessions for healing anxiety and depression
Learn how to better manage anxiety or depression
Get help from a Therapist Online over Skype for effective online treatment for Anxiety Disorders and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, OCD and intrusive thoughts, Addictions, PTSD and Traumatic Stress or any other emotional problems not requiring medical treatment. Contact me to find out more about this online therapy service and to arrange for a Skype session with me.
If you are suffering from an anxiety disorder, chronic fear, depression or other form of psychological emotional suffering then you might consider online therapy sessions via Skype. Working with a therapist online is a very good choice for most people especially if you use Skype. Contact me if you would like to schedule a therapy session via Skype with me.
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness therapist. I specialize in offering Skype therapy sessions for help with anxiety and depression. If you're suffering from anxiety or depression you should definitely consider Skype therapy sessions as an option to help you overcome those patterns of emotional reactivity. Mindfulness therapy is extremely effective for changing the underlying habits of reactive thinking negative thinking of obsessive thinking that feeds anxiety or depression.
If you would like to learn more about Skype therapy sessions for anxiety or depression simply go to my website and learn more about mindfulness therapy and how it can help you. Please send me an email and tell me more about yourself and how it can help you through the Skype therapy service that I offer. It is available wherever you live. All you need is an internet connection and Skype and a quiet place for your Skype therapy sessions and then you can go ahead with this.
Skype therapy is not a medical treatment. It's a way of helping you change the underlying psychological process that causes your emotional suffering and it's very, very effective. So if you'd like to learn more about online therapy sessions with me do go to my website and send me an email so we can schedule a Skype session and you can see for yourself just how effective it can be. Thank you.
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Online Therapist to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional On line Therapist. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy for treating a range of conditions, including anxiety, depression, stress, addictions and also for the online treatment of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
So, how does Mindfulness Therapy work? Well, briefly, Mindfulness Therapy teaches you how to control the reactive thoughts that cause reactive-compulsive behaviors.
We learn how to establish what is called a Mindfulness-based Relationship with our compulsive thoughts, so that we can hold those thoughts in our awareness without becoming overwhelmed by them. When we can do this, then we can start to examine the underlying emotion that duels the obsessive thoughts - and this is essential for the treatment of OCD.
Working with that underlying emotion using mindfulness allows us to change the structure of how that emotion operates in the mind. So, once you can change the underlying emotions, then you take the fuel away from the obsessive thinking and this then stops that obsessive thinking converting into compulsive behaviors.
So, if you would like to learn more about Mindfulness Therapy for OCD, please contact me through my website. Send me an email and then we can discuss if Online Therapy for OCD is a good choice for you, and I will explain more detail about how this works, and then we can schedule a Skype Therapy Session for your OCD. So, please, if you are interested in Online Mindfulness Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, contact me now.
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Online Mindfulness Psychotherapist through Skype for Overcoming Post Traumatic Stress(PTSD) and Trauma
Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety, depression, addiction and also for working with traumatic memories and PTSD.
So I'm often asked what's the best approach for overcoming traumatic memories and managing PTSD preferably without the use of medications. My answer is that I really recommend that you work with a therapist who is experienced with working with trauma and one that really understands the structure of trauma, how it actually works in the mind.
I find that Mindfulness Therapy is one of the best approaches for working with PTSD because it does just that, it looks at the actual structure of those traumatic memories and how they work. And it looks at the patterns of reactive emotions that typically arise around the traumatic memory, whatever those emotions may be, such as anger, depression, anxiety, guilt, shame, you name it.
So that's what I mean by the structure of your trauma. We need to look at the actual memory imagery, itself. And we need to look at these patterns of habitual emotional reactivity that really feed that traumatic memory and stop it from healing.
It is very difficult for the mind to process that intense emotional energy, and when it gets stuck one is unable to process it, then it constellates around the imagery. This is the source of flashbacks, for example, that many soldiers experience when they return from the battlefield. It's the imagery that causes the trauma. That's the important thing to understand here.
So during Mindfulness Therapy we work on exploring this imagery looking at its structure in detail and then exploring how to change that imagery to help it reprocess and become digested and assimilated so that it no longer triggers emotional trauma.
So seeing that is really important. So the first thing we focus on is trying to create some distance, if you like, between you and the memory image. We do this by developing your position as the Observer looking at the image to break that habit of reactive identification, which is the technical term for what happens in a flashback, where you literally collapse into the picture and you become the picture, or part of the picture. That's reactive identification. We lose our perspective and we become dominated by the memory image.
So we need to train ourselves to be able to maintain our separate position as the observer.
We do this by the process of mindfulness meditation where we are literally meditating on that traumatic memory image. But now we're doing it consciously on our terms and that brings a dramatically different result and outcome. We train with it. We learn to sit with it. We watch how we react to it. If we start to collapse into the image then we watch that, we see it clearly and we stop it before it takes effect.
We start to change the structure of the memory image too. For example, make it smaller. It's quite remarkable how much relief you can get by simply taking that memory image and making it really small, making it the size of a grain of sand, and taking that memory image and then placing it somewhere that feels right. It might be to place it on the floor; it might be to place it on a beach with other grains of sand.
Then the second part of working with PTSD is reprocessing the emotional reactions. Now many of them will also change when you can reprocess the trauma itself because those emotional reactions are feeding off the traumatic emotion itself; that is the fuel that feeds the emotional reactions of fear, of depression, of guilt, of shame, or whatever it might be, or helplessness.
In meditation work with mindfulness we are actually simply speeding up this process of healing.
So being able to work via Skype is very popular. It's more convenient and it's very comfortable for many people. It is less clinical in nature. So we don't pursue clinical treatment in online therapy; what we do is we work on changing and healing the underlying process that produces your PTSD symptoms.
So if you would like to learn more, please contact me and schedule a session. Typically you'll see quite big changes within three to four sessions once you start applying the mindfulness techniques that I will be teaching you during these sessions.
Online Mindfulness Therapy through Skype for Managing Post Traumatic Stress(PTSD) & Trauma - Speak with a Psychotherapist Online over Skype for highly effective online psychotherapy for recovering from PTSD and traumatic memories.
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Mindfulness-based Stress Management - Overcoming Anxiety & Depression and Stress Reactions through Mindfulness Therapy
It is essential that you just learn how to, essentially, meditate on your stress, whether that is anxiety or depression. You have to from a compassionate mindful relationship with your emotions. Nearly all of us, naturally, unconsciously react out of habit to our anxiety, depression or other unpleasant emotions, with avoidance and some kind of hatred towards those negative emotions and thoughts.
We do not want these unpleasant feelings and we try to destroy them. This is really the worst thing you can potentially do, because this kind of reactivity makes the stress, the anxiety or depression, develop and become stronger. Any kind of reactivity reinforces suffering, strengthening the anxiety or depression and stress.
What I've found, and lots of others in the area of Mindfulness Therapy have found, is that what really accelerates change and transformation of emotional suffering and stress is when we can hold the emotion in our conscious awareness without reacting to the emotions with avoidance and/or aversion.
When you do this you are learning how to be with the emotion without becoming reactive and without becoming overwhelmed by it. This trains the mind in a totally different way of processing stress and anxiety, and this allows the emotion to change, to heal itself and to transform itself. Stress Management is achieved by reducing and eliminating your habitual reactivity in general, but this also means reducing reactivity towards your stress and anxiety.
Bottom line, reactivity feeds stress; mindfulness, which is non-reactive, reduces stress.
Therefore, if you're considering Online Mindfulness Therapy to manage your stress, then do please e-mail me and then we will be able to explore further whether this strategy of mindfulness-based training is good for your specific needs. Most people see tremendous benefits from learning how to apply mindfulness for managing stress.
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Talk to a psychotherapist online for help with addiction
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy, which is particularly effective for treating addictions. If you would like to talk to a psychotherapist online for help with addiction, then please go to my website and learn more about mindfulness therapy and how it can help you. Please e-mail me and ask any questions you may have about the mindfulness approach. It is very effective and most people see it's quite substantial improvements after the first three or four sessions.
Mindfulness therapy is very effective because it works directly on helping you change those habitual emotions that fuel addiction, whether it's depression or stress or anxiety or or any other emotion. The primary problem is that that emotional energy feeds the compulsive impulses of the addiction. You have to change those underlying emotions in order to overcome addiction effectively.
Mindfulness is extremely good at doing this because it teaches you how to build a conscious relationship with your emotions. The real problem is that we fall into patterns of avoidance and aversion. We don't like painful emotions, we try to get away from them. But in so doing you inadvertently feed those emotions and you prevent them from healing. It's essential to develop a conscious and also friendly relationship with your emotions if they are to heal. They require others and that's what we specialize in, and I will teach you join these online therapy sessions that I authored via Skype exactly how to do this. It is not that difficult.
I will teach you how to essentially meditate on your emotions: on the anxiety, the depression, the stress, whatever it might be. I will teach you how to develop and cultivate this mindfulness relationship with your emotions that will promote healing. You can practice this between sessions yourself. This is a life skill that I teach and it is, as I have said, very effective and probably the most direct approach there is to healing emotional suffering and for recovering from the various forms of behavioral reactivity such as addictions. So. please contact me to learn more about mindfulness therapy for addictions and talk to a therapist online for help with your addictions. Thank you.
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Skype Therapy Sessions for Help with Recovery from Anxiety & Depression
Learn how to break free from anxiety or depression. See a Therapist Online using Skype for highly effective online psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders and Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Addictions, including eating disorders, Post-traumatic stress or any other emotional problems that do not require medical treatment. Email me to discover more about this online therapy service and to arrange for an online Skype therapy session with me.
Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I offer Skype therapy sessions for the treatment of anxiety and Skype therapy sessions for working with panic attacks and many other common anxiety disorders that don't require medical treatment. Most anxiety responds extremely well to the process of Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I offer during these therapy sessions.
Mindfulness teaches you how to break free from that tendency to become identified with your anxiety. This is the biggest problem that we face when we're trying to break free from anxiety. We get sucked into our anxiety, we literally become the anxiety itself. What we need to do is trying to develop a conscious relationship with our emotions. We need to become like the caring parent to our anxiety, instead of just becoming swallowed up by the anxiety. This is what we train in during the Skype therapy sessions that I offer for the treatment of anxiety and also depression. It's not that difficult, but it does require some guidance on how to do this, on how to build a conscious and also a friendly relationship with your anxiety.
The friendliness aspect is very important because the more friendly you become the better the relationship, and the better the relationship with your anxiety, the freer you will become from the grip of the anxiety. So friendliness actually aids the process of becoming free from your anxiety. You do this by actually meditating on how anxiety you learn how to hold anxiety within the mind without becoming reactive and without becoming swallowed up by the anxiety, without becoming reactive and identified.
In technical terms this is often referred to as mindfulness-based affect tolerance. So we are learning to tolerate the anxiety without becoming reactive and without feeding that anxiety.
If you'd like to learn more about how to apply mindfulness for healing anxiety and depression, as well, then please go to my website and email me to schedule a Skype therapy session. Therapy via Skype is very effective and mindfulness therapy works very well online. So I look forward to hearing from you.
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Online Mindfulness Therapy for anxiety and depression via Skype for California, including:
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