Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD Colorado
Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD and Trauma Recovery Colorado
Online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Colorado
Serving: Denver, Boulder, Aurora, Broomfield, Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Louisville, Greeley, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Arvada, Pueblo, Colorado Springs
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Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD
Online Mindfulness Psychotherapist through Skype for Controlling Post Traumatic Stress(PTSD) & Traumatic Memories
Speak with a Therapist Online by Skype for highly effective online psychotherapy for treating PTSD and Traumatic Stress.
Email me to learn more about this online psychotherapy service and book a online Skype counseling session with me. Inquiries welcome!
Mindfulness Therapy is an excellent choice for most people because it works on healing the underlying 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 of my clients see changes very much faster than the usual counseling through talking about your feelings.
Please feel free to email me if you would like to find out more about Online Therapy with me.
Everyone that I have worked with really benefits from the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing 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."
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Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD Recovery
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 Psychotherapist over Skype for Overcoming Post Traumatic Stress(PTSD) and Trauma - See a Therapist Online over Skype for highly effective online therapy for healing from PTSD.
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Healing the traumatic memories of PTSD
Welcome. So I'd like to talk a little bit about the role of traumatic memories in PTSD. So typically visual memories are processed naturally by the mind and they undergo certain changes in their properties over time.
So typically a memory will start off large and intense in detail and color and will seem very close. But over time the image becomes smaller in size. It seems to become more distant. There's a spatial reorganization of its position in our visual memory and it looses details and becomes more fuzzy, in effect. So this is a natural process by which the mind processes visual imagery.
Now in the case of traumatic imagery this process doesn't happen, so the traumatic imagery remains at its original level of intensity in the mind. It remains very large, very close, and typically very high in the psychological visual field and very intense colors and details and other properties that essentially keep that experience alive, because imagery is the primary way that the mind organizes emotion. So intense large imagery will create intense launch emotions.
So the primary issue that we have to deal with when we're working with PTSD or any other kind of traumatic or disturbing intrusive imagery, is to find ways of reprocessing the imagery, helping it resolve itself in this natural way.
The typical kind of ways that we can examine to help it resolve is to make it smaller, to make it further away in how we see it in the mind, to change the color of the imagery. Often changing it from an intense color into black and white can have quite profound effects on the emotional intensity of the image.
So we have to do this consciously, and that is where mindfulness comes in. So the way we do this is that we mindfully meditate on the traumatic image. Look at its details and then start exploring changing the details of how we see that image to help it resolve. We often describe this as helping to digest the sensory overload that is encoded in that imagery. So that's something I have termed mindfulness-based imagery processing, and that's very much a part of my approach to working with PTSD.
If you would like to learn more about this and about how to work with traumatic imagery and intrusive imagery that you may be experiencing, then please email me and let's schedule a therapy session via Skype and I will teach you how to work with your traumatic memories and imagery using the mindfulness-based methods that I've developed and found to be very effective. So please contact me if you'd like to learn more. Thank you.
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Online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Colorado
Serving: Denver, Boulder, Aurora, Broomfield, Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Louisville, Greeley, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Arvada, Pueblo, Colorado Springs
Online Mindfulness Therapy Colorado
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Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD Colorado