How does online therapy compare to therapy in-person?

Online Psychotherapy via Skype - A Better Choice for You

Online therapy compares very well  to therapy in-person as long as you use Skype so that you can see each other

Please feel free to email me if you would like to learn more about Skype Therapy with me. 

During these Skype sessions of Mindfulness Therapy 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, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, depression, and addiction, including alcohol addiction and other emotional problems, by applying the very practical teachings of Mindfulness Meditation Therapy. 

This approach is particularly effective and you can expect to notice noticeable improvements after the first few sessions with me. 

Online Mindfulness Therapy is highly effective for overcoming anxiety and depression without relying on medications. It is always better to treat the underlying cause of your emotional suffering instead of just managing symptoms. This can be achieved through online therapy sessions just as well as in-person therapy, as long as you can see each other, which is why I issist on using Skype or similar video platform.

The principle healing factors cultivated during Mindfulness Therapy are Conscious Awareness, which is essential for breaking free from the psychological habits that cause anxiety and depression, and Inner Compassion, which is what accelerates healing and resolution of anxiety and depression.

"Before my sessions with Dr Peter Strong, I suffered from depression. No matter what I tried, I got nowhere. It was like running around in a circle, I felt trapped.

In the first session, I found out my main problem; resisting and avoiding emotions. A few sessions later, I clearly noticed the difference in me. By mindfully accepting negative feelings, they are released and eventually replaced by positive ones.

I am a happier person now and have achieved much more in life. Enjoying life to the fullest!

Thank you Peter…"

GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE THERAPY VIA SKYPE WITH ME

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

Online Therapy Sites offering Therapy via Skype

Welcome. There are many online therapy sites to choose from these days. Most of them are useful for providing resources and information about different psychological conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD and addictions, or marriage counseling, which is also quite common online. But very few of these online therapy websites actually provide a therapy service over Skype.

I chose to launch online therapy over Skype about 10 years ago, now and it has been doing extremely well. People really do like the choice of seeing a therapist online over Skype. It offers considerably greater privacy and anonymity for you, the client. It's much easier to talk to someone through the interface of Skype than it is in-person about difficult emotional problems. This is one reason why online addiction counseling has become so popular.

Also, people like the idea of being able to work at a time schedule that suits them and also without having to leave home, or organizing a session at the office. So, online therapy offers considerably greater flexibility, and this is useful, this is very important for many people. Life is complicated and it's much easier to be able to fit your therapy session into your schedule if you don't have to leave home.

The style of therapy that I teach and have developed over the years is called Mindfulness Therapy, and this works extremely well online. There are very few online therapy websites that offer Mindfulness Therapy, and this is a relatively new development.

Mindfulness Therapy is similar to CBT but with a much greater emphasis on changing emotions directly, actually looking at how to de-intensify emotions by working with their underlying structure.

So, emotions generally have a structure in the form of imagery. This may be a new concept for you, but there is now a great deal of research out there showing the importance of imagery and this internal visual language in the structure of emotions.

We certainly see visual language in our everyday speech. This is why we might say things like, "I feel overwhelmed", or 'Things are getting on top of me", and, of course, if we are feeling emotionally confident and strong, we may say, "I'm getting on top of my emotions."

This visual language is simply reflecting what is happening internally at the psychological level. The mind organizes emotion through imagery, through internal pictures. It's all about how you see things in the mind, this internal perspective that determines the intensity of your emotions, and the more intense your emotions, the more that will affect your thinking and your behaviors. So, working on emotions is the most important level in psychotherapy; more so than just working on thoughts, because those thoughts are powered by your emotions.

If you change your emotions then your thoughts will change also. So, that is part of Mindfulness Therapy, learning to look at this imagery and change the imagery so that we can essentially take the emotional power out of negative habitual emotions. And, this produces beneficial effects all the way through as I say.

An addiction is a classic example of a behavior that is based on a very intense emotion. The emotion may be one of depression, of feeling helpless, helplessness, of feeling guilt, a feeling of intense stress or emotional trauma, or self-hatred. There are many kinds of intense emotional structures that you will find at the center of an addiction. It is this emotional energy that drives the addiction, that creates the compulsive behaviors that form that addiction.

So, working with emotions is the most important thing. When you change the emotions you change your thinking and you change your behaviors directly. They are directly linked.

So, if you are interested in scheduling an online therapy session with me, please send me an email and tell me about yourself and I will be happy to answer your questions and schedule a Skype therapy session with you. Then we can explore this approach of working with your particular emotions and helping you overcome your emotions.

GO TO MY CONTACT PAGE TO SCHEDULE ONLINE THERAPY WITH ME

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