Skype Therapy for recovering from Depression
Skype Therapy for recovering from Depression
To fully recover from depression you must heal the underlying reactive emotions that collectively make depression as well as learn how to manage the reactive thinking and rumination that feeds depression. This is the focus of Mindfulness Therapy.
Online Mindfulness Therapy over Skype for Overcoming Anxiety & Depression without using drugs
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To effectively recover from depression you need to heal the underlying emotions that constitute depression. Depression is never just one emotion, but a cluster of emotions such as anxiety, sadness, emotional trauma, feelings of helplessness, guilt, shame, anger and fear. Often we do not see all of these component emotions, but healing requires that each is addressed consciously.
This is a very central process in Mindfulness Therapy, as in many other forms of psychotherapy, but in Mindfulness Therapy the focus is on the seeing itself, on sustaining and cultivating non-reactive consciousness towards our emotions, rather than just talking about our feelings.
Talking can actually interrupt the conscious connection with our emotions, which can have the adverse effect of inhibiting healing. It is the conscious, mindful connection itself that promotes deep healing. Many people come to me for help after years of talking about their feelings and often talking is just not enough to promote healing, but when they start developing that conscious mindful relationship with their trauma, fear or anger then healing begins, and often quite quickly.
The inner mindful relationship with your feelings is essential for healing and this is the focus of Mindfulness Therapy.
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"Working with Peter and developing mindfulness has been instrumental in helping me break from my habitual mental suffering. His form of therapy is effective for many reasons, but primarily I think it's because Peter works with you to help you discover the truth of your suffering for yourself, rather than judging you or telling you - his presence is always calm and kind, and provides a great atmosphere for healing.”
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Online Mindfulness Therapy for Depression
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Online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype is a convenient and very popular world-wide service provided by US psychotherapist, Dr Peter Strong. Today, working with an online therapist is becoming the first choice for learning how to overcome anxiety, panic attacks, depression and stress. In this introduction we learn how Mindfulness Therapy online works for healing Anxiety and anxiety disorders.
Mindfulness Therapy is becoming one of the most respected methods for treating anxiety and for managing anxiety symptoms. This gentle yet extremely powerful therapy is also very suitable for online therapy, especially when we use Skype, which allows the client to have a face-to-face session with an online therapist. Convenience and comfort are two of the most common reasons why people choose online therapy, but many really like the approach of Mindfulness Therapy, which tends to focus on changing the underlying causes of your anxiety, rather than just treating the symptoms. many people see big changes after only a few sessions of mindfulness-based online therapy.
If you are contemplating online counseling therapy to help you better cope with your anxiety, please visit my website and email me.
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Online Mindfulness Therapist over Skype for Healing Anxiety & Depression
It is important to check that there are no underlying medical conditions that might be causing your depression, but for most people depression is best described as a psychological habit that is caused when we become overwhelmed by habitual reactive thinking called rumination. During online mindfulness therapy sessions we learn how to transform this habit and resolve the depression.
So the best way to fight depression without drugs and without the use of prescription medications is to work on changing the underlying psychological habits that creates your depression.
Perhaps the most common underlying psychological habit is that of rumination. This describes patterns of habitual reactive thinking that tend to proliferate in the minds and that feeds the underlying depression. So thoughts do not cause depression but they do feed that depression. One of the best ways to control rumination is by learning some form of mindfulness meditation practice, particularly where we practice on meditating on the mind itself.
Meditating on breathing is a common mindfulness practice that is a very good relaxation exercise, but what really makes the difference is when you start meditating on the mind. This allows you to start developing more conscious awareness of these patterns of habitual reactive thinking that feed your depression. When you become more aware of them you can begin to break free from the rumination.
We practice many different mindfulness techniques to help you with this during the online therapy sessions that I teach for managing depression and also anxiety. One of the most effective approaches is called the "Placement Technique" and this is where you learn to greet your thoughts consciously and also in a friendly manner and then move those thoughts to a lower level such as placing them on the floor. This is an interesting exercise to try. Most people have never thought to do this but the position of your thoughts in the mind, the way you see them, is a very important factor in creating the depression.
Usually the thoughts are too close and too high. That's how we see them, and it's that closeness that becomes menacing, if you like, like a swarm of bees. If you space those thoughts out and create more space around them by moving them, that takes away that menacing quality, the crowding effect of too little space, and that can have a dramatic effect on decreasing the intensity of emotional stress produced by those ruminating thoughts. So you might try practicing this yourself.
If you'd like to learn more in more detail how to apply this technique, the placement technique, and other mindfulness methods for managing rumination then simply go to my website and email me and let's set up a trial Skype therapy session to help you overcome your depression.
It's not always necessary to take medications, and in fact medications generally can only relieve symptoms, unless there is an underlying medical condition. But for most people that's not the case. It's simply that they have developed habitual patterns of rumination that feeds the depression.
So go to my Web site learn more about us mindfulness therapy for depression and anxiety, and if you'd like to schedule a session simply e-mail me and we can arrange a time that works for you and for me. Thank you.|
This online counseling therapy service is available throughout the USA, UK and Western Europe and world-wide. All you need is a reliable internet connection and you can start Skype counseling.
Overcoming Anxiety & Depression using Mindfulness Therapy
It's extremely important that you simply learn to, essentially, meditate on your emotions, on your anxiety and depression. You have to from a compassionate relationship with your emotions. The majority of us, needless to say, react out of habit to our anxiety, depression or other unpleasant emotions with avoidance and some form of hatred to those unpleasant emotions.
We do not like these unpleasant emotions and we try to destroy them. This really is really the worst thing you could possibly do, because aversion and avoidance has the effect of making the anxiety or depression develop and become more powerful. Any type of reactivity reinforces strengthening the anxiety or depression.
What I've found, and lots of others in the field of Mindfulness Therapy have found, is that what really creates emotional healing is when we are able to hold the emotion in our conscious awareness without responding with habitual reactivity to the emotions with avoidance and aversion.
When you are doing so you're learning just how to actually be with the emotion without becoming reactive and without becoming overwhelmed by it. This trains the mind an entirely different way of processing that emotion, and also this allows the emotion to change, to heal itself also to transform itself.
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