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Online Therapist - Talk to a Mindfulness Therapist Online via Skype for effective online psychotherapy for Depression and Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety Disorder and Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Intrusive Thoughts, Addictions, and other forms of emotional stress, including PTSD and Traumatic Stress

Online therapy is extremely effective providing you use Skype so that you can see each other during your sessions together with your therapist

Contact me to discover more about this online psychotherapy service and book a therapy session via Skype with me. General inquiries always welcome!

Everyone that I have helped over the years really likes the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…

"I realized that anxiety disorders and depression were not a disease that I needed to attack. I needed to change the way I reacted to my thoughts and emotions and view life in a different way."

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Talk to a Buddhidt psychotherapist online by Skype for help with anxiety and depression

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist and I specialize in online therapy that I offer via Skype.

So if you like the idea of talking to a therapist online rather than in person, if you like the greater convenience and also the greater privacy offered by online therapy, then do please reach out to me by email.

If you're looking for psychological help with anxiety or depression or addiction or other emotional problems that benefit from psychotherapy and you like the idea of learning how to work with your emotions more effectively without resorting to medications, then please contact me and let's schedule a trial Skype therapy session.

Most of my clients really prefer online therapy to meeting a therapist in person. It is just so much more convenient and it's more comfortable too for you. You can conduct your therapy sessions from the comfort of your home, or place of work if you can find a quiet place at work to conduct your sessions.

The other advantage is that it's generally much more effective when working with anxiety conditions, and for people suffering from agoraphobia, online therapy is quite essential.

So the style of psychotherapy that I teach online is called Mindfulness Therapy. And this is a system of psychotherapy that I developed some years ago now and it uses a lot of mindfulness and Buddhist teachings as a way of learning how to better manage our emotions and our thoughts, and so on.

So the biggest problem that I come across when working with people suffering from anxiety or depression or addiction or OCD is this problem whereby you become identified with the emotions or thoughts or beliefs or memories in the mind. This process of reactive identification, as I call it, is really at the center of emotional suffering, whether it's anxiety or depression.

So all emotions are basically habits that get started in the mind, often in childhood. So an emotion like anxiety or depression or shame or low self-esteem, these get started in childhood. This is well known. The child is not able to process these emotions so they tend to get stuck and they grow and then we develop layers and layers of identification around these emotions, these core emotions as we call them.

So in Mindfulness Therapy we spend a lot of time really developing a different kind of relationship with these emotions so that instead of just identifying with your anxiety or fear or guilt or shame or depression we learn to see those emotions as objects in the mind. We developed what is called objective consciousness. And this is quite different than this subject of consciousness that occurs when you become identified with your emotions.

The problem is not so much in the mind itself, it is in our identification with these mental objects. The way that we just fall in to our emotions and we become prisoners of those emotions. We become controlled by our anxiety or depression or addiction.

So breaking free from this reactive identification is a vital process in any form of psychotherapy, and it's the very first thing that we focus on in Mindfulness Therapy.

So when we bring objective consciousness or mindfulness to bear on thoughts then we are able to essentially break free from the habit of reacting. So we can break the habit of reactive thinking that feeds the anxiety or depression.

There are lots of other things we do in mindfulness therapy. I won't describe them all now, but one other thing to consider, and something that I will teach during these sessions, is working with the imagery of the emotions.

So emotional imagery is critical and we look very carefully at the emotional imagery of your emotions, how they actually work. When you are able to see this imagery you can change it.

So we work a lot with imagery and this is very, very effective indeed, especially with traumatic memories.

This approach is very, very effective. It's very direct. It's very focused. It's quite different than conventional counseling. It is really looking at the mechanism that generates your emotional suffering and then changing it.

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Talk to a Buddhist Psychotherapist Online