Therapy over Skype for treating Anxiety & Depression
Online Therapy over Skype for treating Anxiety & Depression
The mindfulness therapy approach is very effective and most people see significant improvements after just a few sessions with me. This is because we address the underlying cause rather than just treating sumptoms.
It is much better to treat the underlying cause - conditioned habitual reactivity - rather than rely on medications.
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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I provide online therapy over Skype. Now this is a very convenient service for people who prefer staying at home to have their online therapy sessions.
If you are suffering from anxiety or agoraphobia, or if you have a fear of driving, then the possibility of having online therapy over Skype becomes very attractive, indeed. And, since Skype allows you to see each other as well as talk to each other in real-time, there is really no difference in the effectiveness of online therapy compared to traditional in-the-office therapy.
Whatever style of therapy you are interested in, first do some research and determine that the style of psychotherapy is right for you. For example, if you are working with anxiety, and most of my clients do come to me for help with anxiety, then I would thoroughly recommend either CBT or Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I specialize in.
These approaches are rather different than conventional talk therapy and they help you actually change the underlying process, that habitual process that creates your anxiety, and this is something that conventional talk therapy or counseling is really not equipped to do. But, cognitive therapy or mindfulness therapy is extremely effective for helping you change those underlying patterns that create your anxiety.
If you are interested in learning more about therapy over Skype and Mindfulness Therapy, do please go to my website and read more of the articles there and watch more of the videos on the website and on my YouTube channel and contact me. I will be happy to answer your questions and to schedule a Skype therapy session.
People really enjoy this approach, it's much less intimidating than going to a therapist's office. It's much more convenient, and the very strategic and practical methods of mindfulness therapy are very effective through Skype. So, please CONTACT ME and schedule a trial Skype therapy session.
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Therapy over Skype using Mindfulness Therapy
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 for treating anxiety and depression
Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy for Healing Emotional Suffering without relying on Prescription medications
Conventional talking therapy may be helpful, but often just talking about your feelings does not help you recover from the reactive psychological habits that is the real cause of your anxiety and depression.
The same can be said for medications - prescription medications may provide reduce anxiety and depression symptoms for a while, but medications are not effective for healing the underlying psychological habits that cause your anxiety or depression.
The school of therapy that I find most effective is called Mindfulness Therapy, which can be remarkably powerful for controlling all forms of anxiety, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias and Panic Attacks as well as for treating non-clinical depression or other common psychological difficulties caused by conditioned reactive thinking.
Most of the people that I work with see very real changes after 3-4 weeks of Online Therapy with me.
Welcome. If you're looking for therapy over Skype for anxiety or depression or addiction or any other emotional problem, please go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service that I offer.
All my therapy sessions are done via Skype. I do this because most people actually prefer online therapy rather than meeting in person. It's certainly a great deal more convenient for you and it also is generally a lot more comfortable and less intimidating than going to see a therapist in their office.
As long as you use Skype or similar video platform, there's really no difference in the effectiveness of psychotherapy delivered online via Skype when compared to psychotherapy in person. You have to be able to see each other. That's really the main factor here. And of course, Skype makes that possible. If you can see each other, then the communication is really no different than being in the same room together.
So convenience and the comfort of being able to have your sessions at home are major factors. But also people want more choice. They want more variety than may be available in their local area. Most of my clients have a particular interest in Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I specialize in and have developed over the years. I have developed a way of working with anxiety and depression and other psychological emotional problems using mindfulness, which is very, very effective indeed.
The mindfulness approach is one that gives you the tools, the methods that you can use yourself to work on healing your anxiety or depression. That's really important. I
really prefer that approach than a treatment-based approach because a treatment approach such as medications doesn't really give you any new learning or insights or ways of working with your emotions. Even conventional talk therapy or counseling often really doesn't teach you much, and seldom does it get to the root cause of your emotional suffering.
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Therapy over Skype for treating Anxiety & Depression