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Please feel free to email me if you would like to learn more about Skype therapy sessions with me. During these online therapy sessions I will teach you mindfulness-based methods for promoting recovery from all forms of anxiety, including agoraphobia using the well-tested techniques of Mindfulness Therapy.

This approach is very effective and most clients notice significant improvements after the first 2-3 sessions with me.

Online Mindfulness-based Skype Therapy is highly effective for stopping anxiety and depression without the need for anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants. It is better to treat the cause of your emotional pain rather than just managing symptoms.

The principle healing factors developed during Mindfulness Meditation Therapy are Conscious Awareness, which is necessary for neutralizing the unconscious psychological habits that cause anxiety and depression, and Inner Compassion, which is what accelerates healing and resolution of emotional pain.

“I have been suffering from severe depression and chronic anxiety for over a year now. In the pursuit to heal myself, I came across Peters work online. The insights I have gained from two Skype sessions with Peter, have put me onto a pathway healing and recovery. I am so grateful for Peter’s teaching and would recommend his service wholeheartedly.”

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Agoraphobia is best described as a fear of not being able to return to a “safe zone” like your house and is characterized by intense anxiety reactions and panic attacks related to a change of physical location, such as leaving home or going into a public place like a mall or cinema or restaurant and other situations that trigger intense anxiety, often accompanied by panic attacks.

There is typically a very strong sense of not being safe away from a “secure zone” such as your home. In its extreme form the agoraphobic becomes confined to their home and cannot leave the security of their house; they become house-bound.

One woman I worked with did not feel safe even leaving her bedroom and certainly not her home. But after applying the mindfulness-based methods that I teach she did finally overcome her extreme fear and was able to get married and live in a different city. She was able to drive again and go to college, which was not possible before therapy. She had been living as a prisoner of her anxiety for years. Talk therapy was either ineffective or not possible. Her doctor had prescribed prozac, but that didn’t seem to help much.

The fear of having a panic attack is a major concern for many people with agoraphobia, so much so that it progressively limits travel and social situations. It is this “fear of fear” that is the major driving force that leads to a downward spiral of ever increasing anxiety.

Online Mindfulness Therapy using Skype is an exciting new approach to help people imprisoned by this debilitating form of anxiety.

Online Agoraphobia Therapy allows people to work on their anxiety in the comfort of their homes and gradually develop the tools that will allow them to venture out and become more confident in themselves so that they can participate and get more enjoyment from life.

The Mindfulness Therapy approach that I teach has proven itself very effective for treating anxiety and panic attacks and when you start practicing the Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy protocol that I will teach you during our Skype therapy sessions together you will see rapid improvement.

Please contact me if you are committed to overcoming your agoraphobia and you are ready to schedule Skype therapy sessions with me.

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So if you’re suffering from agoraphobia, it’s obviously very convenient and often sometimes quite necessary to find an online therapist just because it’s so difficult to leave home.

I have worked with many people who have not been able to leave home for any great distance, often for several years. But with the right approach you can overcome and free yourself from the anxiety that keeps you house-bound.

The approach that I use is called mindfulness therapy and it works extremely well for overcoming the anxiety and fear of panic attacks that characterizes agoraphobia. Being able to work online is very important because this allows you to manage your recovery process in a gradual and systematic way.

Best to use Skype for online therapy

But you must use Skype or similar video platforms so you can see each other. That is from my experience, quite essential for effective psychotherapy. But if you have Skype or similar platform and you can see each other online, then it is just as effective as meeting a therapist in person. And in many cases, it can be more effective because you feel more secure in your home environment, and that will increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy.

So the mindfulness therapy approach that I use works very well online through Skype. And most people that I work with see significant improvements within a matter of weeks.

Online Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy works really well

The key to overcoming agoraphobia is to schedule a series of exposure challenges and to work in a very focused way with each of those challenges, doing a lot of mindfulness-based training before you do the challenge. And then repeating each challenge until you can do each challenge without any anxiety at all.

So we must prepare for the challenges, this is what makes the mindfulness approach different than traditional exposure therapy. We need to prepare to make each exposure effective and to build on the increasing confidence that you will get.

So in mindfulness-based exposure therapy, we train for each challenge by playing it through in the mind. Sometimes this is called imaginal exposure therapy, but it is quite essential to do this before you do each live exposure challenge.

You play it through in the mind. You watch very specifically for any anxiety reactions and any anxiety-producing thoughts that typically accompany an anxiety reaction. Then you work on developing and cultivating a conscious mindful relationship with that anxiety. The stronger this relationship becomes, the faster the anxiety heals.

This internal mindful relationship with your emotions is extremely important.

I will teach you in great detail how to work with your anxiety using mindfulness and how to set up those exposure challenges and how to train for each challenge so that it becomes a successful experience that will cause you to increase your confidence and overcome that anxiety.

So if you’d like to learn more about online mindfulness therapy for overcoming agoraphobia and you’d like to work with an online therapist like myself, then please send me an email.

Tell me more about yourself and your particular condition and tell me what you’ve tried so far. Also, tell me what days and times work for you and then we can go ahead and set up a Skype therapy session.

So please contact me and let’s get started with your recovery process from agoraphobia. Thank you.

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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional online therapist and I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders including agoraphobia.

So if you’re interested in getting help from an online therapist for the treatment of agoraphobia, then please do contact me. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about online therapy and the mindfulness approach that I use for treating agoraphobia without drugs.

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Mindfulness Therapy is very effective for the treatment of agoraphobia and panic attacks, and in this treatment plan that we will work out together you will basically learn how to apply mindfulness to progressively overcome your fear of leaving your home.

So the way we go about this is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy, and this is a process where you schedule a series of exposure challenges of increasing difficulty as in other forms of exposure therapy.

But before you do any challenge you do a great deal of training using mindfulness-based methods, and I will teach you how to do this. But the idea here is that you apply mindfulness beforehand and meditate on the challenge that you’re about to do. You play through the challenge in your mind. You watch for any triggers and the anxiety that results when you find that anxiety.

You then work using mindfulness to completely change your relationship to that anxiety to prevent it from overwhelming you and to prevent it from proliferating, but also to help it heal and resolve itself so that you can imagine doing the challenge with no anxiety at all before you go on to do the exposure challenge. So that’s the secret.

Exposure therapy by itself is not sufficient. You must do some kind of training to neutralize the anxiety before you actually do the live challenge, and that’s what makes the difference. So when you take this very strategic approach you will see changes quite quickly.

I have worked with people who have suffered from agoraphobia for sometimes many years and they have been able to progressively expand their area of activity in the matter of a few weeks and usually within a month they are able to go to the supermarket, the mall and other places that would have been impossible before.

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So anxiety is simply a habit. It’s a condition reactive habit and we need to change these habits and the first way you change any habit is by bringing more mindfulness to it, more consciousness. Habits operate automatically, unconsciously. So you must make those habits conscious.

First of all we do that through this process of mindfulness meditation on your emotions and the triggers that activate those habitual emotional reactions.

So there are various techniques that we will apply during mindfulness training. Meditation is the primary way. All that meditation means is that you focus conscious awareness on the particular aspect of mind that you are focusing on. In this case it’s the anxiety. We work on changing our relationship to that anxiety so that instead of just becoming overwhelmed by it we change the relationship to becoming the Observer. This is a critical shift.

When you can observe your fear without reacting, then you are well on the way to changing that anxiety habit.

So that’s the first part of the training. Learning to sit with your anxiety without reacting, without identifying with that anxiety, without becoming consumed by it. The second part of our training is to help the anxiety heal and there’s various ways that we go about doing this.

Develop inner compassion for your anxiety

But the primary focus really is on developing a compassionate relationship with that fear. So the reactive habit is usually based on hatred, on fear itself. Fear of the fear is the real problem here. When you can change that relationship to one of compassion towards that fear that you’re now observing instead of reacting to, then you can begin to help it heal.

You can think of the fear as being like a child. The child is not very capable of solving its own suffering. If it’s afraid it can’t heal that fear very effectively by itself. It needs to make contact with the child’s father or mother in order to make a connection between the fear in the child and the fearlessness in the parent.

So when that bond is strong then the child is able to overcome his or her fear by absorbing the fearlessness he or she experiences through conscious contact with the parent.

This fearless part of your identity is the observing self, your True Self, and that is what allows the fear to heal. So the fear, often referred to as Little Self, learns how to heal itself through this internal relationship that you build through meditation on the fear.

This may be quite novel for you. It’s a different way than is typically taught by other therapists, but it is very effective, and I have helped many people over the years now using this mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

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If you would like to learn more, please contact me. If you have any questions, please contact me. If you would like to get started with a treatment plan using mindfulness-based exposure therapy, then contact me and let’s schedule a therapy session via Skype.

I do all my online sessions using Skype and it works extremely well. So please reach out to me and let’s get started and so you can see just how effective it can be to use mindfulness for overcoming agoraphobia.

I am based in Colorado, USA, but I provide online therapy for agoraphobia world-wide.

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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado and I offer online therapy via Skype for treating anxiety disorders, depression, addictions, PTSD and other common emotional psychological problems.

I specialize in the treatment of agoraphobia through the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy. So if you’re looking for an online psychotherapist for agoraphobia, then please contact me.

My name is Peter Strong. I provide online therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression and addiction and OCD and many other common emotional problems that people struggle with.

One of the anxiety disorders that I am most often asked for help with is agoraphobia.

So agoraphobia is quite a common condition actually, that affects somewhere between 4 to 5 percent of the population in some degree. It can vary in severity from mild discomfort and anxiety being in public places or being in a situation where you might feel trapped or feeling uncomfortable in a novel place that you’re not familiar with.

Agoraphobia typically refers to anxiety produced by unfamiliar situations and environments where you feel a sense of being trapped or a need to escape.

So really, agoraphobia can be viewed as a set of learned habits that are unconsciously conditioned, that become associated with certain triggers and that operate and tend to proliferate, feeding that underlying anxiety.

So how do we go about freeing ourselves from agoraphobia and panic disorder, as well? Well, the most effective way is to approach each of these challenging situations where those triggers exist and approach it in a very strategic way using mindfulness, what I call mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So this is where we work with those triggers and the anxiety that gets triggered automatically due to those underlying habits, those reactive habits. So we work with them consciously. This is the important thing in Mindfulness Therapy; we work very consciously with the triggers and the emotional reactions that get triggered. We, in fact, learn how to meditate on those triggers.

So this way we’re training the anxiety to heal. We’re allowing it to develop strong pathways in the mind, in the brain, that lead to its resolution. And those become new habits after a while and the anxiety effectively does not arise at all and then we feel completely comfortable in that situation, in the busy shopping mall or walking in the neighborhood or driving, or whatever it might be.

So we work in this very strategic way. That is the key to effective change and for healing and recovering from agoraphobia.

So if you would like to work with an online psychotherapist like myself who specializes in Mindfulness Therapy for agoraphobia, then do please contact me and let’s schedule a few Skype therapy sessions. This approach is very effective and very quick. Most people see quite significant improvements within a couple of weeks of working with me and putting these mindfulness methods into practice. So please contact me if you are really interested in overcoming your agoraphobia.

Mindfulness-based exposure therapy for agoraphobia

Exposure therapy is very, very important and generally always incorporated in a treatment plan for agoraphobia. But exposure therapy really works best when it’s accompanied by some form of training with the anxiety, in which you learn how to deal with anxiety reactions that occur during those exposure challenges.

So that’s where the mindfulness-based exposure therapy comes in. We use mindfulness training to work with any anxiety reactions and any panic attacks that may get triggers.

So basically the approach is one of setting up a series of exposure challenges, first of all that’s very important. You need to do this in a systematic way, in a regular way, in a disciplined way, doing exposure challenges every day in order to get on top of the anxiety reactions.

But we take his challenge and then we prepare for it by playing it through in the mind and watching for any anxiety reactions, any form of anxiety-based thinking that gets triggered when we imagine doing the challenge, when we imagine walking outside of our comfort zone or going to a shop or a mall or whatever it might be or driving beyond a certain distance from home.

Whatever form the agoraphobia takes, we set up a series of challenges and then we prepare for each challenge by playing through in the mind, finding the anxiety reactions and then responding to them with mindfulness, whereby we learn first of all to break free from that pattern of reactive identification which causes us to be completely overwhelmed by the anxiety reaction.

Develop Objective Consciousness

The single biggest problem for people suffering from anxiety is the problem of Reactive Identification. This is where we become blindly identified with our emotional reactions, beliefs and thought reactions. We literally become the anxiety, we become a prisoner of the emotion and fall under its spell. This is experienced as emotional contraction and it results in contracted perception and limited fear-based thoughts, which have the effect of reinforcing the anxiety.

The first training is to be able to stay conscious with the anxiety without becoming the anxiety. That’s the first most essential part of mindfulness training. When we have achieved that, when we can stay as the observer of our anxiety, our True Self, the Observer that does not react, then we can proceed to help heal that anxiety.

The first part of healing is establishing that inner relationship that is not based on reactivity. The second part is to watch for any form of reactive thinking that feeds that anxiety.

So when we see reactive to thoughts we need to change our relationship to those, as well, so that we do not become blindly identified with those thoughts. We learn to see the thoughts as an observer, as your True Self.

This is referred to as developing Objective Consciousness, where we see the emotions and thoughts, beliefs and memories as objects in the mind. Instead of becoming the anxiety or fear, we observe the emotion as an object and we remain as the Observer of that object.

This has the effect of liberating us from the grip of the emotion, and is referred to as the liberating effect of mindfulness. It is a central feature of mindfulness, also called equanimity (upekkha) in Buddhist teachings, and the whole purpose of mindfulness meditation and training is to develop this objective consciousness. Without it, change and healing are not possible.

Change the internal imagery of the anxiety

We also look at the internal structure of the anxiety, which is always in the form of imagery. That is how emotions work in the mind; they are formed around internal psychological and habitual imagery. That’s what holds emotional energy together to form an emotion like anxiety or depression or anger or whatever it might be.

So we look at this internal imagery and explore its structure. And one of the first things we work on is looking for the position of that emotional imagery, where do we actually see the imagery? Very often it’s in the chest. It could be any place, but we have to look carefully internally to find out the habitual position of the emotion.

That habitual position is part of its imagery and is a very important part. It’s necessary in order for that emotion to work. It has to be in the chest, for example in order to create anxiety.

So when we see something of its position, we then explore changing the position of that emotion, moving it. Sometimes we move it to a place where we can embrace it, rather like taking a scared animal and moving it onto our lap where we can embrace it and comfort it. That helps a scared animal overcome its fear. Well emotions are very, very similar to that animal and they really benefit from inner compassion and friendliness, both key features of mindfulness.

So we can move the emotion and put it on our lap and then we can explore how to comfort it further. And through developing this internal compassionate relationship we can teach the emotion how to release itself; how to let go of its fear.

Develop a compassionate relationship with your anxiety

During mindfulness therapy we develop a very strong compassionate healing relationship with our anxiety. The biggest problem for most people is that the anxiety reaction becomes isolated, cut off from your True Self.

It is left abandoned because we reject it and it is that sense of isolation, which prevents it from healing. So we build a very strong, compassionate, friendly, loving relationship with our anxiety. That is precisely what fear needs to heal and so it is in our best interest to work on developing this inner compassion.

So this is the kind of training we would do before doing the exposure challenge. We would ensure that we have healed the anxiety prior to doing the challenge. Then we do the challenge and we stay mindful, which means staying aware and conscious.

And if we notice any anxiety arising then we respond to it with the response of compassion that we have been training on before the challenge.

After the challenge we then do another meditation on the anxiety, a review meditation. We play through the challenge we have just done. We look for any fresh anxiety that’s arisen and we respond to that anxiety with mindfulness, with compassion, in the same way.

So in this way we’re training in a very conscious way with our habitual anxiety reactions and training them to release their anxiety, teaching them how to heal, how to extinguish themselves, so that we can imagine doing that exposure challenge and not feel any anxiety.

So we repeat the challenge after taking a break in this very strategic way over and over again until we have completely trained out of the habitual anxiety reactions. Then we may proceed to another challenge and we do it in the same way.

We always meditate on the challenge before we do it; watching for anxiety reactions and changing our relationship to the anxiety from one of blind reactivity to a mindful response based on compassion that promotes healing.

Then we do that second challenge and we meditate again after the challenge to look for any anxiety that may have been triggered and we work on healing any new anxiety reactions. And then we may go on to a third challenge, etc.

And we keep cycling through all of our exposure challenges until we are free from all of our habitual anxiety reactions.

Anxiety is a habit

At the end of the day anxiety is nothing more than habit. It is simply a conditioned habit that is triggered by blind reactive thoughts and beliefs. But any habit can be changed when we develop a conscious and a very friendly, compassionate relationship with that habit.

You can’t change habits by pushing them away or avoiding them. You can’t really effectively change habits by just struggling through either. Mindfulness does not teach tolerance of the anxiety; it prefers to work on healing that anxiety. So that is quite a different approach and much more effective in the long run.

Instead of just ignoring our anxiety, we actively work with it using mindfulness meditation to heal the anxiety so that it is no longer triggered.

You will see results very quickly with this very strategic mindfulness-based approach. Typically after two or three weeks you will notice significant improvements. And this approach gives you the tools that you can continue to develop to get over your agoraphobia completely. That’s our goal. Not to tolerate our anxiety, not to manage it, but to heal it so that we are no longer a prisoner of our anxiety habit.

So please contact me if this interests you. Let us schedule a Skype therapy session to get started on your path to freedom from agoraphobia. Thank you.

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The way to overcome agoraphobia is to take a strategic and practical approach that incorporates some form of Exposure Therapy that is combined with thorough mindfulness training to overcome and neutralize each individual anxiety reaction that you encounter as you do your exposure challenges. Training is everything.

You will also appreciate the importance of online therapy and being able to work with a psychotherapist online. This becomes essential if you have agoraphobia because it is so difficult to leave home.

I have spent the last 10 years developing and perfecting online Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for agoraphobia, and this approach has proven to be incredibly effective. Please reach out to me if you need help and if you are motivated to overcome your agoraphobia and anxiety.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I provide online therapy via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression and also for the treatment of agoraphobia.

So if you are interested in getting the help you need to overcome your agoraphobia, then you might consider seeing an online therapist like myself. I have made it a mission to try and provide effective practical ways of working with the anxiety and panic attacks associated with agoraphobia, and I offer this mindfulness therapy service online via Skype to make it more accessible.

The method that I’ve developed for working with anxiety and depression is called Mindfulness Therapy, and it’s extremely effective in teaching you how to not only neutralize your anxiety but eliminate it completely through training, through effective practical training, using mindfulness-based methods.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

The central method that we use is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy. As you will undoubtedly understand by now, it is extremely important that you do not fall into the trap of avoidance.

You must face your anxiety and face those situations that trigger that anxiety, but you must do it in a strategic way with appropriate training. It is not sufficient to simply throw yourself into that anxiety-provoking situation and try to struggle through. That kind of exposure is not really very effective.

So if you want to be successful with exposure therapy, you need to take a strategic approach with a lot of training, and so this is the theory behind mindfulness-based exposure therapy for agoraphobia.

We start by setting up a series of challenges and then we work through each challenge in a systematic way starting with easy challenges and progressing to harder challenges.

But the important thing is that you do each challenge well and that you reach your goal of being able to do that charge without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

Training through mindfulness meditation

The primary way we go about doing this is through mindfulness meditation. We meditate on that challenge. You play it through in the mind. And we watch for the anxiety reactions. When we find an anxiety reaction, we respond to it with mindfulness.

That is that we open to it, we embrace that anxiety. And we treat it very much in the same way that we would treat a friend or a child or even an animal that we encountered that was in pain. You don’t avoid the child in pain, you go towards the child and you then explore comforting the child to help it overcome its pain.

This is a basic strategy that you already know. Well we should adopt that same strategy in relationship to our emotions, to our anxiety. We need to go towards our emotions, we need to face them, but we need to embrace them in the same way with compassion and with a great deal of consciousness to really explore the structure of that anxiety. How does it work?

One of the first things we learn is to work with is the outer structure of the anxiety, which is in the form of reactive thoughts. These are conditioned habitual reactive thoughts that get triggered when you encounter the situation, the particular triggers in that challenge. They get triggered from conditioning and then produce an anxiety reaction.

So we need to work with those thoughts because the thoughts are a very important part of the structure of anxiety. Thoughts do not cause anxiety, that is a common misconception, but thoughts are a very powerful fuel source that feeds anxiety and increases its intensity.

So we learn to work mindfully with those thoughts. We learn to not identify with those thoughts. We learn to see them as objects. And not become lost in that series of habitual thoughts.

We learn to recognize the thought clearly, to acknowledge it, but then to stay as an observer, embracing the thought but not indulging in the thought.

So it’s like seeing a child that’s in pain but not becoming as upset as the child. You have to remain independent of that child’s suffering if you want to help the child. So we have to learn to be an observer.

Really it’s like learning to be a parent in relationship to the anxiety. You learn to be bigger. You learn to develop a relationship based on compassion rather than reactivity. That is what will help the anxiety heal. In fact that is what it requires in order to heal. It needs you to be a parent to it.

So we find each emotional reaction and we help it heal by the quality of our relationship to it, developing more compassion and more consciousness.

Then we replay the scene in our mind of the challenge and look for other anxiety reactions and other triggers. We work with those in the same way until we can go through the entire challenge in our mind without anxiety.

Then after this training period, which may be half an hour of meditation before the challenge, we then go and do the challenge and we put it into practice.

We put the training into practice. We recognize the anxiety it arises. And the training will help it resolve during the challenge.

We then meditate after the challenge on any fresh anxiety that did not resolve. So we train with that anxiety and help it resolve in the same way.

And after that we repeat the charge again. And we keep cycling through meditating before the challenge. Doing the challenge. Meditating after the challenge. Taking a break and then repeating until we can do the challenge with zero anxiety.

We are not learning anxiety tolerance techniques. Other people teach that; I do not. I am interested in healing the anxiety so that it does not arise in the first place.

And it can be done very successfully because anxiety is primarily a habit, a series of habitual reactions. Habits can be changed. Mindfulness Therapy is all about changing those habits by bringing more consciousness and more compassion to the habit itself.

You cannot overcome anxiety by some sort of rational thinking protocol. Trying to convince yourself that it’s irrational and that you won’t have a panic attack. That simply does not work. You have to heal the anxiety. Then those thoughts will come in, “Yes it’s irrational,” “I’m going to get through this,” “It’s going to be fine.” But it’s based on experience not based on some wishful thinking.

So we work in this very strategic experiential way with our emotions. We work at a very deep level, working with the external structure, which is the constellation of reactive thoughts that feed the anxiety. We also work with the internal structure.

Utilize emotional imagery

So what is the internal structure of anxiety? Well that internal structure is primarily in the form of imagery. This is one of the central features of my teaching on Mindfulness Therapy, is to explore the imagery of the emotion.

So all emotions are based around internal imagery. It’s the organizing force, if you like, that holds that energy together to produce fear or depression or anger or any other emotion.

This is something that I’ve observed over the years and found to be very effective, when we start to uncover the imagery of the anxiety and then start to change it with compassion to help that emotion heal. Because when the imagery changes then the emotion changes with it.

And this is a natural mechanism that we’re utilizing. Emotions work through imagery. This is a natural process. When an intense emotion resolves itself naturally it does so by changing its own internal imagery. You can see this for yourself. If you think about a traumatic experience, for example. At that time the imagery of that emotion is very intense.

It’s very large and it’s very overpowering because it is very large and very intense in color. But over time that traumatic image becomes smaller. It naturally shrinks in size. And the colors tend to fade. And that’s why we say things like, “Oh, that’s a distant memory now,” “I’ve gotten over that now,” “it’s not as big a problem as it was then.”

This language tells us a lot about this internal imagery that I’m talking about. If you have gotten over a traumatic experience it is because the position of the image of that trauma has become lower in your psychological internal visual field. You have raised yourself about the emotion.

Also if it becomes smaller. When you say things like, “it’s not so big a problem anymore,” we’re referring to the imagery. So you can think about this yourself and contemplate this phenomenon, but I think it’s really quite convincing when you examine it, that emotions are based around imagery and when that imagery changes the emotion changes.

So we look at the internal structure and we help it change. So this is part of the training that we do during our meditation before and after the challenge. We help that imagery change in a direction that resolves the anxiety.

Want to get started with online exposure therapy for treating agoraphobia?

So this is a brief introduction to mindfulness-based therapy for agoraphobia. If you would like to talk to an online therapist like myself for help overcoming your agoraphobia, then please reach out to me by email and lets schedule a Skype therapy session.

Most people see results very quickly when they take this strategic and very in-depth approach to working with anxiety. So you can expect and you should expect to see significant changes within three to four sessions.

And then when you start to apply these methods yourself you will continue that progress and eventually you will get to that position where you do not feel overwhelmed by anxiety or panic attacks.

So that is our firm commitment. Our firm goal in Mindfulness Therapy it is not to tolerate or manage anxiety, it is to eliminate it. It is to heal it. So if you’d like to get started please contact me. Thank you.

I am based in Colorado, USA, but I provide online therapy for agoraphobia world-wide.

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Online agoraphobia therapy via Skype

Online exposure therapy for agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado, and I offer online therapy for the treatment of agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders through Skype.

So if you’re looking for online treatment for agoraphobia, then I invite you to take a look at my website and contact me to learn more about this online therapy service. The approach that I take is called Mindfulness Therapy and specifically Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy, which I have found to be very effective for the treatment of agoraphobia and for overcoming anxiety in general.

So this is a system that I’ve developed over the years and I’ve been teaching online and people have reported remarkable improvements once they start applying the particular methods that I’ll be teaching you during our Skype Therapy sessions together.

The methods of mindfulness-based therapy for agoraphobia are ones based on developing a conscious relationship with your anxiety. This is what is typically missing. People simply become consumed by their anxiety. You become overwhelmed by the habitual reactive anxiety, and when you become identified with it in this way, then you simply feed the anxiety.

So this happens as a habit. It’s a conditioned reaction. We simply blindly become attached to the anxiety reaction without any choice because there’s no conscious awareness.

So in order to change things, to break free from the anxiety, you have to start developing conscious awareness around the anxiety.

So in in the mindfulness-based exposure treatment approach, what we do is we design a series of challenges. We call these exposure challenges, of increasing difficulty. And then you prepare for each challenge very carefully using the methods of Mindfulness Therapy.

So what this means is that you will imagine doing the challenge before you actually go out and do it in real time. You play it through in the mind. You imagine doing that challenge and you look very carefully for any anxiety reactions that get triggered. We want to bring those into conscious awareness because typically they simply operate subconsciously as reactive habits.

So we want to bring those habits into consciousness. Then when you have brought that anxiety into your conscious awareness, you then start training with it. And this is the important message here. You must train with those anxiety reactions well before you do the actual exposure challenge.

So you train with the anxiety. You look at the anxiety reaction and you begin to cultivate through training with it, a relationship in which you see the anxiety but don’t become identified with it. So we’re overcome in this habit of blind reactive identification, which is the real issue.

The anxiety reaction itself is not as important as the reactive identification that happens once that anxiety gets triggered. If you react, if you become identified with the anxiety, then you feed it and you also prevent it from healing, from changing, from resolving itself, you keep it alive when you identify with it.

So by training mindfully with it to see it objectively as an object in the mind in which you remain as the observer, you begin to break that habit of reactive identification. And that’s a crucial part of the recovery process for any anxiety disorder. You have to break free from the anxiety. You do that by learning how to see it as an object. It is not you. You don’t become the anxiety, you don’t become afraid. You stay as the witness, the observer, seeing that anxiety.

So through training, we train ourselves out of this habit of blind reactive identification. You can then take this to a second level to increase the effectiveness of the healing process by changing that relationship from being a fear-based relationship based on reactive identification, to being a relationship based on friendliness, compassion, a sense of caring for that anxiety emotion itself, as if it was a child.

You are learning to see it as an object that needs your help to heal. So we start to develop compassion towards it and that compassion is very, very powerful. Once you cultivate inner compassion, you will greatly accelerate the rate of healing for that anxiety.

So training with it in this way through developing objective consciousness and inner compassion neutralizes that anxiety. It literally creates a pathway whereby that anxiety can heal itself whenever it gets triggered. So by training with it, we’re training the anxiety to resolve itself.

So you do this before you do the exposure challenge. You play it through in the mind. Look for the anxiety. Develop a compassionate and conscious relationship with it until it heal, which it will do very quickly, depending on the quality of that relationship that you develop with it.

You repeat it until you can imagine doing the challenge, the exposure challenge, without any anxiety at all. Then you do the exposure challenge, and only then. Then the actual live experience will reinforce that pathway that you have just created through your training that heals the anxiety.

So that becomes very, very powerful reinforcements for the new pathway that you’ve established in the brain that heals that anxiety.

So after working through that first exposure challenge until you can do it with complete confidence, then you move on to the next challenge on your list of challenges. And you do the same thing. Play it through in the mind in order to find any anxiety reactions that are operating subconsciously.

Then you bring those anxiety reactions into conscious awareness. You help heal them through developing inner compassion until they have all healed and then you do that second challenge. And you do that until you can do the challenge without any anxiety at all.

Then you move on to the next challenge, and so on. If you take this systematic approach, you will see changes very, very quickly, often in a few weeks. You have to do this every day. You work through your list of challenges and you train and prepare for each challenge using mindfulness meditation methods.

You meditate on the anxiety in order to build that conscious and compassionate relationship in which we can help the anxiety heal, instead of just feeding it through reactivity.

So if you’d like to learn more about how to work with your agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy, then simply reach out to me and schedule a Skype Therapy session.

You will see changes very quickly once you learn how to do this, how to apply mindfulness effectively for healing anxiety.

So please do contact me if you’re at all interested in getting started with mindfulness-based exposure therapy to overcome your agoraphobia

Online therapist to treat agoraphobia from home

Online therapist specializing in the treatment of agoraphobia

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression and other common emotional problems, including agoraphobia.

So if you’re looking for an online therapist to treat agoraphobia, please contact me and tell me more about your particular condition and the problems that you’re trying to work with and I will be happy to answer any questions you have about online therapy for agoraphobia. And when you feel comfortable, we can schedule a trial session to see if this approach works for you.

If you’re suffering from agoraphobia, then it’s clearly a great advantage to be able to see a therapist online. So this is one of the reasons why I am offering this service and have been helping people overcome agoraphobia for the last 10 years now, through Mindfulness Therapy. And I teach this form of psychotherapy over Skype. So all you have to do is make sure you download Skype onto your computer and then you can contact me to schedule a Skype therapy session.

The Mindfulness Therapy approach is extremely effective for working with all kinds of anxiety disorders because it teaches you how to break the habits of reactive thinking and emotional reactivity and behavioral reactivity, that feed the anxiety. This is really important.

For most of us, these habitual reactive processes operate subconsciously. We are not aware of them and so we become slaves to our patterns of reactivity that keep creating and recreating that anxiety.

So in mindfulness training, we learn how to develop a very conscious relationship with those underlying habits of reactive thinking and emotional reactivity that cause the agoraphobia. We have to see them clearly. Just the very process of seeing those habits clearly begins to free you from their influence, because habits depend on remaining subconscious. So bringing them into consciousness is extremely important and the most effective thing that you can do.

So we learn to develop a conscious and non-reactive relationship with those emotional reactions and thought reactions. We then start to work on healing the emotions that are fueling that anxiety.

So the emotional habitual reactions that fuel the anxiety, those are key because those are what feed the thought reactions that feed the anxiety, as well. And we do this by developing what we might call internal compassion. This is an internal, conscious, caring relationship with those emotions that have become stuck and continue to proliferate. So this internal caring relationship is one of the hallmarks of Mindfulness Therapy and it’s extremely effective.

When you stop reacting against your anxiety and you stop avoiding it, but actually turn towards that anxiety with consciousness and compassion, then you start to see real change. And so Mindfulness Therapy is a way of doing this systematically, in a very organized way so you develop these inner pathways that heal those habits that create the anxiety.

The other thing that we must do in our treatment for agoraphobia is design a well constructed series of exposure challenges. So this is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So we design challenges and then we prepare for those challenges using mindfulness therapy and the methods that I will teach you. We then do the challenge and we work with any anxiety that arises during the challenge using the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy. And we keep repeating the challenge until we have completely neutralized those anxiety-producing habits.

So I will teach you exactly how to do this in our Skype sessions together. It’s a very effective and very practical approach, and most people see quite substantial improvements in a fairly short time. Once you start applying the mindfulness methods yourself at home between sessions, then you’ll see rapid improvements.

So please contact me if you’re looking for an online therapist to help you overcome your anxiety and to help you break free from agoraphobia.

I use Skype for therapy sessions. That’s important because you need to see each other for online therapy to be effective.

So please contact me if this interests you and you are looking for an online therapist to treat agoraphobia

Online Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy for Agoraphobia

Online counseling for overcoming agoraphobia

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online agoraphobia therapy. If you would like to see a therapist online for help with agoraphobia, then please read through my website and learn more about this online Skype therapy service.

Many people come to me for help with agoraphobia and of course being able to see a therapist online is extremely valuable. If you’re suffering from agoraphobia and you’re experiencing the anxiety of leaving home of traveling to see a therapist in their office that’s the major problem that we have to overcome.

Of course with agoraphobia we have to learn how to address these anxiety reactions that you’re having and if you can’t leave home then that becomes very difficult. So the online therapy option is a very good choice if you are suffering from severe anxiety and agoraphobia.

So the approach that I use for helping people overcome agoraphobia is called Mindfulness Therapy and it is a very effective approach, one that I have developed over the years and refined, and from my experience it’s probably the best approach out there for helping you overcome those anxiety reactions so that you can leave home and go into previously difficult situations and difficult spaces that would have caused great anxiety in the past.

Our mission here is to learn how to change those habitual anxiety reactions and mindfulness therapy is extremely good at doing this. It has some similarities to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) but it’s much more focused on working at the level of the anxiety itself.

Mindfulness Therapy works more with emotions than thoughts because we see thoughts as being really the products of the underlying emotions rather than the other way round. So a common theme in Mindfulness Therapy is that we understand that thoughts do not cause anxiety but anxiety certainly causes a lot of thoughts that feed that anxiety.

So we have to work with the underlying anxiety directly. You can’t do that just by trying to change the thoughts. Those are simply the byproducts of that anxiety.

Set up a schedule of exposure challenges

So we do this by first of all designing a well-constructed schedule of exposure challenges. That is a necessary part of the recovery process.

You design a series of challenges. It doesn’t matter how small they are. The point is to do them well and to neutralize any anxiety reactions associated with that particular challenge.

Then you progress to a more difficult challenge and you work with that in the same way using the various mindfulness techniques that I will teach you until you can do that challenge without any anxiety reactions at all and then he moved to another challenge and you move up a series of challenges progressing in difficulty until you can completely overcome all anxiety.

So if it’s anxiety and driving to a mall for example, then the goal will be one of being able to drive to the mall with no anxiety at all. That’s the direction that we take in mindfulness therapy.

Train with the anxiety reactions before doing the challenge using mindfulness

So how do we work with the anxiety? Well, we do this by training before we do each challenge. That is we imagine doing the challenge in order to find any of those habitual anxiety reactions.

So rather than just blindly accepting them and being unprepared and just falling victim to those anxiety habits we bring in the element of consciousness. We focus mindfully on the anxiety reactions and then we bring in the qualities of mindfulness that bring about healing that anxiety in that specific situation with that specific trigger.

The first part of the healing process is learning to develop what we call “equanimity”, which means simply that you can sit with that trigger and not react with anxiety or any other emotional or cognitive reaction; that you can be present with it and not react.

And the same goes for the anxiety itself. Can you be present with the anxiety or other emotion and not react, but just be present with it. That’s the first part of the training is learning to develop equanimity and that is an essential part of overcoming anxiety. You have to be able to sit with the triggers and the anxiety itself without reacting or identifying with that anxiety.

When you do that you stop feeling the anxiety, that’s the whole point of developing equanimity. You stop feeding the habit. It’s rather like an addiction. Anxiety is addictive in its nature.

So when you stop feeding the habit of anxiety the anxiety starts to heal, starts to resolve itself. It starts to diminish in intensity until it disappears altogether and there is no anxiety left. That is called healing and that’s our goal.

So we sit with the anxiety and we help it heal. First of all, by not feeding it through reactivity, so we develop equanimity to do that. That’s part of mindfulness.

The second factor that promotes healing of anxiety is to develop compassion for the anxiety itself, to see the anxiety as an object in the mind that needs you, that needs comforting; it needs your compassion to heal.

So we learn to see it really in the same way that we might see a child in pain. The first step of course is to sit with the child and to develop quality of presence, conscious presence that’s not reactive. That’s essential to help the child overcome its suffering. It’s exactly the same with our emotions. We must learn to sit with them in this way.

Then we start to explore how can we help that emotion heal. With the child it is exploring how can we interact with the child to help comfort it and help it resolve it’s suffering. It might be as simple as giving the child a hug or just giving it your love and comfort is often all that it needs.

But it must have that connection with you in order to heal; it needs that reassurance, that quality of human interaction. And this is exactly what we must do with our emotions too.

So the anxiety we need to treat it in the same way with compassion, with love, with care, with attention and to find out what will help it heal. It may be the same thing. It may be to actually imagine taking that anxiety and giving it a hug. It might be to embrace it in some way that lets the anxiety feel like it’s connected to this much bigger part of you, the part that is able to be present, what we call your “True Self”, which is very much analogous to the parents.

So developing that internal relationship between the Little Self, the anxiety, and your True Self, the parent if you like, is what is usually missing and is what we are rebuilding through this process of meditating on the anxiety itself. We’re using meditation to build that internal connection that is essential for healing.

There are other ways that we can interact with the anxiety that I’ll teach you during our sessions together. But those are two very important principles. So we focus on the anxiety in our imagination. We bring about its healing so that we can imagine doing that challenge without any particular anxiety. Then is the time to do the challenge. And then we might also meditate after the challenge as well to reinforce that training.

You see, what we’re really doing here is we’re training the anxiety to resolve itself, to heal. We’re helping it heal. And this sets up a new pathway in the brain whereby that anxiety, if it gets triggered, is now able to heal itself because of the training. So this is what we call “mindfulness-based exposure therapy” and it’s extremely effective.

So if you’d like to learn more about this approach and you’d like to schedule some Skype therapy sessions with me to work on your agoraphobia, or other form of anxiety, then do please contact me and we can get started. Thank you.

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Find an online therapist to help with agoraphobia

Online counseling for treating agoraphobia without medications

If you’re looking for an online therapist to help you overcome your anxiety, and especially if you’re struggling with agoraphobia, then please go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service that I provide over Skype.

It’s very important that you seek help if you’re suffering from agoraphobia. This condition can be overcome with hard work as long as you take a focused approach you will be able to overcome your agoraphobia.

I have helped many people over the years to overcome their anxiety and panic attacks by applying the methods of mindfulness therapy.

This is a system of mindfulness-based psychotherapy that I have developed over the years for working with anxiety and depression and also agoraphobia.

So being able to see an online therapist is, of course, very important if you’re suffering from agoraphobia because it’s so difficult to go and see a psychotherapist in his or her office. So online therapy is often the only option.

Now, if you’re considering online therapy, you must make sure that you work with someone who uses Skype or similar video service so that you can see each other. This is the important thing.

You must be able to see each other in order to have good quality psychotherapy. If you can’t see each other online through Skype, then there’s really no difference in the effectiveness of online therapy compared to meeting a therapist in person.

In fact, I often find that it’s more effective than meeting in person simply because you feel more comfortable, more at ease. And this makes the therapy experience much more effective.

So there are definite advantages to working online as long as you use Skype or similar video platform.

So how do we go about overcoming agoraphobia? Well, from my experience working with people over the years the best approach must include some form of exposure therapy. And this has led me to develop a system that I call mindfulness-based exposure therapy, which is extremely effective.

And many people I’ve worked with have been able to overcome their anxiety within the matter of a few weeks when they start to apply the mindfulness-based methods, and these I will teach you during our Skype therapy sessions together.

So the important thing is taking a very strategic and focused approach to exposure therapy. You have to prepare very well before you do each of your challenges. You have to basically rehearse the challenge in your imagination, taking care of any anxiety reactions that may occur.

You have to do this before you do the exposure challenge. Then when you do the exposure challenge, it’s basically reinforcing the changes that you have made during your training before the challenge.

So typically, in mindfulness-based exposure therapy, I will have you imagine doing the challenge, playing it through in the mind, looking for those anxiety reactions and then engaging in a process that effectively neutralizes those habitual anxiety reactions.

So those anxiety reactions are, basically, habits, they are habitual in nature. And like any habits they operate subconsciously without our conscious involvement. We suffer at the hands of these anxiety habits.

But when you start bringing mindfulness to these habits, you start to change that relationship so they are no longer subconscious blind conditioned reactions. You begin to develop a totally different relationship to those anxiety reactions.

In this relationship that we will be developing, you become the observer. The anxiety reaction is simply an object that you observe.

Seeing that anxiety reaction has an object already begins to create space between you and the anxiety. So this neutralizes this process that we call “reactive identification,” where you essentially contract into the emotion.

So by training with those anxiety reactions, you can overcome that process of reactive identification. And this is really important because this stops the reactive processes that follow, that tend to feed that anxiety and keep it alive.

When you stop feeding the anxiety, then the anxiety is free to change. And it will change. It will resolve itself. It will heal, if you stop feeding, it’s through reactive identification.

So we learn to hold the anxiety in our mind without becoming identified with it. We then learn how to respond to that anxiety in a way that helps it heal. So healing is a very important feature of mindfulness therapy. We’re interested in healing the emotion itself. And we do this by developing a compassionate relationship with the emotion.

We see the emotion very much like a child. It’s in pain, we go to it with compassion to help it heal. So in that process, you become the parent, the child’s heals because of that relationship.

When it’s very strong, the healing is very fast. And it’s the same with our emotions, with our fears. We need to bring the same kind of quality of compassion and non-reactivity to bear on that emotion. So that’s what causes healing to happen.

So we cultivate a conscious relationship by holding the anxiety in our mind. We developed this compassionate relationship to it that helps it heal. And there are other factors, too, that we can bring into mindfulness therapy that speed up this natural process of healing.

But really the important thing here is that you focus, conscious awareness, mindfulness, on that emotion. That is the key ingredient that allows it to heal and allows you to break free from those conditioned reactive habits that cause the anxiety.

So if you’d like to learn more about working with an online psychotherapist who specializes in mindfulness therapy, then please go to my website and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

If you’d like to schedule a Skype session with me, then please fill out the contact form on the contact page and tell me more about yourself and any questions you may have and what times work for you and then we can schedule a Skype therapy session.

Most people see quite substantial improvements after the first three or four sessions.

The key here is that I’ll be teaching you methods, tools that you can apply yourself between sessions. To basically make a list of exposure challenges. Then do the meditation work with mindfulness to neutralize the anxiety before you do the challenge.

And then you do the challenge and you process any anxiety that may have gotten triggered and you process that and you neutralize that. And then you might repeat the challenge again after a suitable period of rest.

And we keep cycling through these challenges until each one becomes completely free from anxiety. So this way we’re really building out the direct experience of fearlessness. We’re helping the anxiety heal. We’re training with it to help it heal in these specific situations.

So if you take this kind of very focused approach, you will see results in a very short time.

So please contact me if you would like to get started with overcoming your agoraphobia. Thank you.

Do please contact me if you are interested in learning more about how to overcome agoraphobia through the application of mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

I am based in Colorado, USA, but I provide online therapy for agoraphobia world-wide.

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Online Therapy for the treatment of Agoraphobia

See an online therapist for treating agoraphobia without medications

Welcome. If you’re looking for an online therapist to treat agoraphobia, then I invite you to look at my website and learn more about the online psychotherapy service that I offer over Skype for treating agoraphobia without depending on drugs. Medications simply treat the symptoms of anxiety, but our goal should be transforming the underlying cause of your anxiety.

So I help people overcome anxiety disorders like online agoraphobia therapy using Skype. So Skype is a very effective way of allowing you to see each other, and that’s really important for online psychotherapy.

You need to see each other, but you don’t need to be in the same room to do that. But you do need to be able to see each other for good communication, and that will make it much more effective for you.

If you’re suffering from agoraphobia, then you know just how important it is to be able to get access to an online therapist because it’s so difficult to travel to see a therapist and in person.

So if you’re interested in online therapy for your agoraphobia, then please feel free to contact me. Tell me more about yourself and what you’ve tried so far. And I will be happy to answer your questions.

If you would like to get started with me on your recovery process, then do please let me know what days and times work for you and then we can go ahead and schedule a Skype therapy session.

So the approach that I teach online for overcoming agoraphobia is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy. It’s a very effective way of neutralizing those anxiety reactions that feed the agoraphobia.

Basically, we design a series of challenges, exposure challenges of increasing difficulty, starting very simply with an exposure challenge that is just on the borderline of you being able to tolerate the anxiety. And then we move on to progressively harder challenges.

So, starting with the first exposure challenge on your list, we then set out to do mindfulness-based training with that particular exposure challenge.

So each day you will spend some time rehearsing for that challenge. That means that we imagine doing the challenge and then watch for any anxiety reactions and any anxiety thoughts that may get triggered.

When you find those particular habitual reactions, you then start working with them using mindfulness.

So this means learning how to hold those mental objects, the anxiety, the thoughts, in your awareness, in your conscious awareness and learning how to keep in there without identifying with them and without reacting to them, without allowing them to propagate more reactivity, which is typically what happens.

The typical situation is that when anxiety is triggered in the mind, then that sets off a whole sequence of other reactions, mostly in the form of reactive thoughts. So, we want to overcome this blind habit, which is what it is, because that sequence of reactions feeds the anxiety.

So, we want to be able to see those reactions clearly and neutralize them through our awareness, not getting identified with those thought reactions, not becoming lost in that stream of thought reactions, not feeding the anxiety.

So, the more that you see of the internal psychological process that causes your anxiety, the more choice you have, the freer you become.

So it’s very, very important to cultivate this mindful awareness of these specific emotions and thoughts that get triggered when you imagine doing that particular challenge. So, developing consciousness is the best way to overcome those habits.

The second thing that’s really useful in neutralizing anxiety habits involves developing a relationship based on friendliness and compassion with those thoughts and with the anxiety, of course, that’s fueling those thoughts.

When you develop a friendly relationship, you make yourself much bigger than the thoughts. When you become reactive, when you identify with thoughts, you lose perspective and you become much smaller, which is part of the problem.

This is a phenomenon that we call reactive contraction, and it’s a very important part of the process that happens in the mind that creates anxiety.

We contract into the emotion and into its thoughts and into its beliefs and so on. When you develop friendliness, you effectively counteract this contraction because the nature of friendliness is that it ignites an expansion response in the mind. You feel bigger when you are friendly. You feel smaller when you are reacting with aversion or hatred or dislike for something.

So we developed friendliness towards our emotions and our thoughts. We start to respond to them in a way that helps them heal. This is called the response of compassion, which is a vital part of being mindful.

Being mindful is more than just being aware, but it is also being aware of how to respond to experiences in the present moment in a way that leads to healing or to greater well-being or greater happiness.

So it has this active quality of response to your experience, and in the case of anxiety, what that anxiety needs more than anything else is that response of compassion. It needs to connect to the bigger part of yourself that we call your true self, your higher self, that is free from anxiety, that’s free from reactivity. So it needs to connect with that in order to heal itself.

The biggest problem that sustains anxiety is when the anxiety reaction becomes dissociated from your true self. It becomes isolated, and being in that isolated condition, it really can’t change itself. It can’t heal. It’s only when you bring it into your true self, when you embrace it fully, that it can start the process of healing. And when you do this consistently, the anxiety heals very quickly.

So, this is a part of what we’ll be doing in our rehearsal meditations before we actually do the exposure challenge. So, we play through the challenge.

We look for the anxiety and the thoughts. We learn to see them as objects and not identify with them and not react to them. And then we learn to respond with compassion in a way that helps that anxiety subside and heal.

And then we play through the scene again until we get to that place where we feel completely confident in doing that particular challenge. Then is the time to do the exposure challenge.

Then we actually go and walk outside or go to a shop or a mall or some other exposure challenge that’s on your list. So we test it out. We put it into action. And that’s a very important part of the mindfulness approach. It’s about putting things into action, learning how to be more present and more mindful and less reactive in the particular situations that you find yourself in.

So that’s how we do it. That’s mindfulness-based exposure therapy, and it works extremely well.

I will teach you how to do this during our sessions together. And if you practice between sessions every day, taking on one of your particular challenges on that list and doing the rehearsal training and meditation before you do that challenge, in the way that I’ve just described, then you will see a rapid improvements.

And I expect most of my clients who come to me to start to see significant improvements within the first three or four sessions.

It really does not take long to change those anxiety habits, as long as you approach them in the right way and that you train with them in this very careful, conscious manner using mindfulness.

So if you’d like to get started with me, please go to my website and go to the contact page and send me an email and tell me more about yourself and your particular situation and the kind of help that you are looking for and we can schedule a Skype therapy session at a time that works for you. Thank you.

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See an online therapist for treating agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy through Skype for the treatment of anxiety disorders, including online therapy for agoraphobia. So if you’re suffering from agoraphobia, then you might be very interested in getting online help for the treatment of your agoraphobia.

So being able to talk to a therapist online is very essential if you can’t leave your home because of your anxiety and panic attacks.

So if you’re interested in online therapy for agoraphobia, then I invite you to contact me and ask any questions you have. And if you are ready, we can schedule his Skype Therapy session.

The approach that I teach during my Skype Therapy sessions is called Mindfulness Therapy and this is a very effective and strategic way of working with the agoraphobia.

The primary teaching is about how to do very strategic exposure challenges, but preceded by very thorough training in mindfulness to effectively neutralize and deactivate those habitual reactions that cause your anxiety.

So the classic way we go about this is I will have you imagine doing that particular challenge, such as walking out onto the street or driving a short distance, if you’re able to do that.

I will have you imagine doing that and then we look for any anxiety reactions that get triggered as you play through that scene.

When you’ve identified those anxiety reactions, which are habits, they are habitual reactions, then we start to focus mindfulness on them, to break those habits, to overcome those blind habitual reactions.

So this is the first part of training, learning how to make them conscious so that you are no longer trapped into reacting. So we do that by focusing on those anxiety reactions and learning to stay present with them mindfully, but without becoming identified with those reactions and without becoming consumed by anxiety.

So this is the first step, learning to sit with your anxiety without becoming identified or reactive. So that’s essential. And then the second part of our training is to learn how to respond to that anxiety in a way that promotes healing.

And the first very important part of mindfulness training is learning to develop compassion towards the emotion itself. The emotion you can think of as being like a child. It is stuck. It doesn’t know how to heal its own suffering. It needs the intervention of its parent.

Well your emotions need the intervention of you, the larger, higher self that we call the True Self, that is not identified with the anxiety, which we often call the Little Self. When you can establish that right relationship based on mindfulness, based on objective consciousness, where you can see the emotion as an object, then you are in a position to actually help it change and heal.

So the first part of training is, is learning how to sit with it so we don’t feed it through reactivity. The second part of the training is learning to respond with compassion, discovering what will make it the emotion of feel better. And there is a variety of techniques that I will teach you during our Skype Therapy sessions together on exactly how to do that.

So that’s what you do before you do an exposure challenge. You play through the scene until you have completely neutralized those habitual reactions. So now you have broken free from those habitual anxiety reactions.

Then you do the challenge and that will reinforce your new internal perceptions of that particular scene, like walking around the block or going into a shop or driving in your car.

Then after doing a challenge, we might do some more meditation using mindfulness to look at any anxiety that arose during the challenge. And that’s very important.

So we play through the scene that we have just done and then we look for those triggers and the anxiety that got triggered. And in the same way, we work on changing our relationship to that anxiety so that we can re-establish objective consciousness, so we can see it the same way that you could see a scene on a on a movie screen.

You can see the scene, but you don’t become part of that movie. so you can look at your anxiety without becoming it. That is what we mean by mindfulness and objective consciousness. So we train with that fresh anxiety, if there was any, that arose, until it is neutralized, and then you repeat that exposure challenge again.

If you approach your recovery process in that way with this very strategic and very methodical approach, then you’ll see rapid improvement. And most of my clients see very dramatic improvements within usually a few weeks, once you start practicing the mindfulness-based methods that I’ll be teaching you during our sessions together.

So if you like the idea of online therapy and you’d like to get help from an online therapist to overcome your agoraphobia, then please reach out to me and let’s schedule a Skype therapy session. Thank you.

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Online Psychotherapy for recovering from Agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online agoraphobia therapy via Skype.

So if you’re looking for online treatment for agoraphobia, where you can get your treatment at home, don’t have to leave home, then do please go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service. It’s very effective if you use Skype, which is what I offer, because then you can see each other.

And if you can see each other, there’s no difference in effectiveness, really, between meeting a therapist in an office or meeting them online. You have to be able to see each other. That is the main point.

So in the style of psychotherapy, that I offer for the treatment of anxiety and agoraphobia, you’ll be learning how to change the relationship that you have with your emotions. This is what is most central.

The real problem that feeds anxiety and keeps it from healing and prevents you recovering from anxiety is to do with how you relate to your anxiety and other emotions.

We tend to react to our unpleasant emotions. We don’t like them. We push them away and we get involved in avoidance behaviors so that we don’t have to experience the anxiety.

So this is a real problem. We have to learn how to change that relationship because if you react to your anxiety that reactivity prevents it healing.

It’s only when you can establish a conscious and compassionate or open relationship with your anxiety that that anxiety is able to heal. So that is a central focus in the style of psychotherapy that I teach online, which is called Mindfulness Therapy.

So when we are working with agoraphobia, we look actively for these anxiety reactions and the triggers that trigger those anxiety reactions. And then we learn to develop a conscious relationship with them where we remain as the observer.

This is what stops us from becoming identified with the anxiety. And it also neutralizes those blind habitual patterns of reactivity towards the anxiety that feed it.

So we have to learn how to sit with anxiety without reacting. And we do this by learning how to meditate on our anxiety.

Meditation means learning to be present with the mind with mindfulness, with full conscious awareness, learning to see your emotions directly without becoming lost in blind conditioned reactivity. Learning to see those reactions clearly without becoming lost in those reactions.

The more that you see things clearly, the more conscious you become, the freer you become from the influence of those habitual reactions. When you stop identifying or reacting, then you stop feeding the anxiety. When you stop feeding the anxiety, it begins to heal quite naturally.

It will heal very much in the same way that a wound in the body would heal if you allow it to heal naturally.

If you response to that wound with awareness and compassion, then that wound will heal quickly. So anxiety is very much like an emotional wound. It is prevented from healing by our reactivity.

But once we remove that reactivity and develop a relationship based on compassion or mindfulness, then the anxiety will heal in the same way. It’s already programmed to heal itself. It is trying to heal. It’s just the reactivity that stops it healing.

So we train with our emotions. We train to overcome this habit of reactivity and to facilitate the healing of those emotions.

This works extremely well. It’s much, much more effective than simply talking about your feelings, which of course is a very indirect way of building a direct, conscious relationship with your emotions. Talking about your feelings has some usefulness. But it doesn’t really build that inner relationship with those emotions that is necessary for them to heal.

Medications are not recommended because they certainly do not heal anything at the psychological level. Medications may reduce symptoms, but they do not heal anything psychologically, so you remain vulnerable to those psychological habits.

So mindfulness is about directly changing at the core level by bringing mindful attention to your anxiety. We do this by meditating on that. So I will teach you how to do this and you’ll see very quickly how effective this is.

It’s really quite surprising once you start to become aware of this blind conditioned reactivity that keeps you a prisoner. Once you become aware of that, then change becomes possible very quickly and you can rapidly break free from those reactive habits that keep you a prisoner of your anxiety.

So typically, we go about overcoming agoraphobia by designing a series of challenges, exposure challenges, and we work through this list very systematically, every day, and in a disciplined way. But we train before we do each of the challenges.

We might imagine doing the challenge in order to find the anxiety reactions and then we train with those anxiety reactions to heal them so that we can then imagine doing the challenge without any anxiety. Then we go and do the exposure challenge, and that will reinforce our learning.

After successfully doing the first challenge, you move on to the second challenge and so on. And this is a very practical and very focused way to overcome anxiety and panic attacks. It’s about training. It’s all about training.

Mindfulness meditation is a way of training with the mind. With those anxiety reactions and the associated reactive thoughts that feed the anxiety.

So we work through our list systematically. This is called Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy. It’s by far the most effective way of working with agoraphobia. And you can do so from home. You don’t have to leave home to go to see a therapist. You can get your sessions at home and I will guide you through the process.

You can even do exposure challenges during your sessions. Now, with the advent of smartphones we can go out together and put this training into practice.

So if you’d like to learn more about how to overcome agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy and you’d like to schedule Skype Therapy sessions from home, then please contact me and let’s get started on your recovery process.

This treatment plan is very effective for overcoming agoraphobia. Most people see huge improvements within a couple of weeks. Once you start putting these methods into practice, you’ll rapidly see progress.

So please contact me and schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.

Talk to an online psychotherapist for help with agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist. I specialize in mindfulness therapy, which I offer online for the treatment of anxiety, depression, addictions, OCD, PTSD and also for work with agoraphobia.

So if you’re looking for online psychotherapy for agoraphobia and you would prefer not to take medications to treat your agoraphobia, then I invite you to go to my website, learn more about this online therapy service that I offer, and please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

And if you would like to go ahead and schedule Skype therapy sessions with me, then simply go to the contact page and send me an e-mail. Tell me more about yourself. And what you tried so far, and any questions you may have. And we can then schedule a session at a time that works for you.

I see people worldwide. Most of my clients are living in the USA, but I also see a lot of clients in the UK and Western Europe and as far away as Japan and South Korea. All you need is a good Internet connection and then you can conduct Skype therapy sessions.

We must use Skype. That’s quite important to understand. We need to be able to see each other in order for our online therapy sessions to be effective.

But if you can see each other using Skype or similar video platform, then the quality of psychotherapy is just as good as meeting in person. And for many people, it’s even better. Because it’s much more convenient and much more comfortable for you to have your sessions at home than in a therapist’s office.

If you’re suffering from agoraphobia or driving anxiety, which is often associated with agoraphobia, then being able to have online psychotherapy sessions becomes essential. And that’s one of the reasons why I developed this online therapy service to help people who cannot leave home for one reason or another.

Clearly, in the case of agoraphobia, it’s very, very difficult to leave home. The fear of having a panic attack or the fear of being out of control, of losing that security is so strong that it inhibits leaving home or traveling any distance from home.

Agoraphobia can take many different forms, but an underlying theme is this feeling of losing control, of not being able to get back to a safe place, or feeling trapped. There are many different forms that that can take.

The way of working with agoraphobia is really quite straightforward if you take a very focused and strategic and practical approach, and that’s what I offer during these online mindfulness therapy sessions.

The technique that I have developed and that works is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy. And this is where we work on specific situations that historically have triggered anxiety. We make sure that we make those a challenge that we work at in a strategic and focused way, perhaps undertaking daily challenges.

But we must proceed each challenge with training, and that is where the mindfulness part comes in. The typical way we go about this is that you imagine doing that particular challenge.

You then watch for any anxiety reactions or anxiety-producing thoughts that get triggered. And then you begin to work with those emotions and thoughts mindfully so that you can break the habit of becoming identified with those thoughts or emotional reactions.

This is the biggest problem that we need to overcome. It is called reactive identification in mindfulness psychology. And is the process whereby we become completely identified and overwhelmed and consumed by the particular emotion or thought process that has triggered.

We need to learn to break that habit, because that’s the primary habit that feeds the anxiety and panic attacks in the first place.

So we need to change the relationship that we have to our emotions and thoughts. We need to start developing a mindful relationship with those objects of mind in which we remain as the observer. We can see those emotions and thoughts clearly as objects and remain not identified with those objects.

This is an essential opening that’s required for healing. If you become identified with anxiety, if you start reacting to the anxiety with fear, more anxiety, or aversion, or if you try to escape the anxiety through some method of distraction that will simply feed the anxiety.

So reactivity feeds, the anxiety; that reactivity is the primary problem. And that’s what we have to overcome.

So we do this by deliberately learning to meditate on our anxiety, we learn to sit with our emotions without becoming identified with them, without becoming overwhelmed, without reacting.

This way we start to re-establish a healthy balance with the mind. Thoughts in themselves are not a problem. Emotions are not a problem until we become identified with them and then become reactive, then they create suffering.

But when we can stay in an objective, mindful relationship, then we can begin to facilitate the process of healing. First, by not feeding the suffering. That in itself brings a tremendous relief. If we don’t make it worse by blind, reactive thinking and reactive emotions that just had happened in a conditioned way out of habit. Then when we stop doing that we take away the fuel that feeds that underlying anxiety.

So that’s a very important part of mindfulness training, it is learning how not to make it worse. And then the second part is how to actually make it heal. So mindfulness therapy is concerned with healing, healing anxiety in this case. And there we need to be able to sit with it as a compassionate presence.

If you react with hatred towards your anxiety, it cannot heal and it will not heal and it will simply get worse. But if you work on developing a friendly and compassionate relationship with your anxiety, then it will heal.

So that’s a very important part of mindfulness: developing compassion internally. This will also help you externally as well in your relationships and life in general.

Working internally is the foundation for mental health and well-being. Medications are not an effective treatment for anxiety because they do not address these underlying reactive habits that cause the anxiety. So I do not advocate medications; it is just another form of avoidance in my opinion.

It’s much better to spend your time and effort actually working on looking at your emotions and helping them heal and re-establishing balance in the mind by developing your True Self, which is that observer presence, the mind that can observe and not react.

That’s your True Self. That’s what is required for healing anxiety when you can bring that quality of non-reactive mind to anxiety it will heal. That is a given, that happens every time.

The real issue that stops anxiety healing is that reactivity, in which you are not present with your emotions, because when you react, you basically leave the emotion alone and you now become consumed by the reaction.

Whether it’s fear or whether it’s thoughts, worry thoughts, or whether it’s hatred for self-criticism. This takes you away from the anxiety, so the anxiety is now more isolated than it was to begin with. And under those conditions, it cannot heal.

So it’s only when you create this conscious, loving presence with your anxiety that it can heal and when you work on that, it heals very fast.

So this is a brief overview of the mindfulness approach to healing anxiety and for overcoming agoraphobia. You work with the specific anxiety that is triggered and then you help it heal.

When you’ve healed that anxiety, then you do the actual challenge, you do the live challenge. That becomes a way of then reinforcing this new in a confidence in which the anxiety is no longer operating.

Then you move on to another challenge and you work through your list of exposure challenges until you have freed yourself from anxiety in all of those challenges.

When you do this in a strategic way, it begins to gather momentum and it becomes easier and easier each time. And typically when you have managed successfully to overcome the anxiety in three or four of those exposure challenges you’ll find that it begins to become much, much easier to do the next challenge. And your confidence builds exponentially in this process.

The mind can see how to globalize this response to anxiety, whatever the trigger. And then we begin to reach sufficient momentum that we break free entirely.

So agoraphobia is treatable, completely. But you have to take a very detailed strategic approach of working at this mindful level, this experiential level. If you do that, you will see results very quickly. And most of my clients see dramatic changes within three or four weeks.

The key is to practice the methods that I will teach you. And do those challenges every day without fail. Then, like any other form of training, you will see the benefits.

So that’s a brief overview. If you would like to learn more, please contact me and we can schedule a Skype therapy session and so you can see for yourself just how effective the mindful approach is for treating agoraphobia without medications. Thank you.

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Overcome Agoraphobia through Online Psychotherapy

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders, including the agoraphobia. So if you’re looking for online psychotherapy to help overcome your agoraphobia, then to please go to my website and learn more about the mindfulness therapy that I offer online through Skype.

If you’re looking for an online therapist, it’s very important that you find someone who offers therapy via Skype or similar video platform so that you can see each other.

You must be able to see each other in order to have an effective psychotherapy session because you need good communication and you need to see each other in order to establish good communication.

If you are struggling with agoraphobia and you are looking for an online therapist, then do please go to my website and learn more about the mindfulness-based approach that I use for treating agoraphobia.

This system that I’ve developed over the last 20 years now is proving to be very effective. It’s called mindfulness-based exposure therapy and it’s a way of basically desensitizing those habitual anxiety reactions that keep you a prisoner.

You will learn how to set up a schedule of incremental exposure challenges and then how to apply mindfulness training in order to neutralize those anxiety reactions associated with each of those challenges.

The primary way that we do this is by learning how to meditate on the anxiety. So we play the scene through in our mind for that particular challenge. We watch for the anxiety reactions that may get triggered and then we work on totally changing the way that we relate to that anxiety.

The fundamental problem that people struggling with anxiety and depression have to deal with is the problem of reactive identification. This is a term that I coined some years ago to describe the way that we become blindly attached to that emotional reaction, to that habitual emotional reaction.

The emotion itself is not the problem, it is this reactive identification that is the problem because that basically activates the emotion, the anxiety and gives it the power to cause emotional suffering.

If you can overcome this reactive identification, then the anxiety basically will have no power to cause suffering. It just becomes an object that we can observe in the mind. And that we can help heal. If you react to that anxiety, of course, you will simply feed it. And if you identify with it, that is what really ignites all that reactivity, the reactive thinking that feeds anxiety.

So we train with the anxiety by meditating on it, by learning how to stay conscious, being totally present with that emotion, without becoming overwhelmed by it, without becoming identified with it, and without becoming reactive towards it.

This is a central theme in all mindfulness work. Mindfulness basically means being able to be totally present consciously with your experience with out reactivity.

Whatever the experience is, pleasant experiences included, in order to be mindful, you need to be able to be totally present without reacting, because if you react, you basically inhibit full connection with that experience and this will prevent healing in the case of anxiety and other forms of emotional suffering. You need to be totally conscious in order for suffering to heal.

So we learn to be present with our anxiety by meditating on it. You play through the particular challenge that we are working with in order to identify the anxiety. And then we learn to sit with that anxiety without reacting. This is very important indeed.

We can then move on to develop the second part of mindfulness work, which is developing a compassion and friendliness towards that anxiety. You see the anxiety as being in pain, as an object that’s in pain. It’s rather like a child coming to you in pain. It needs your help. It needs your conscious presence, it needs your friendliness and love and compassion in order to heal. And this is what we learn to do through mindfulness training and mindfulness therapy.

We learn how to develop this kind of relationship with our anxiety because that is the only thing that will effectively heal it.

So if you’d like to learn more about mindfulness-based exposure therapy for overcoming agoraphobia, you’d like to learn how to apply mindfulness for overcoming anxiety, then do please go to my website. And feel free to contact me. Tell me more about yourself, what you’ve tried so far. And tell me if you’d like to schedule some Skype therapy sessions with me.

Most people see really quite surprising results in relatively short time. And there’s one reason for that. And that is because you are learning how to directly engage with your anxiety. Talking about your feelings is not directly engaging with them, and that’s why that tends to be a slow process.

It may provide temporary relief but just talking about your feelings is not sufficient to heal the underlying emotional habits. The same goes for medications.

Medications may provide a temporary relief from symptoms, but they do absolutely nothing to heal those underlying psychological reactive habits that cause your anxiety.

So if you would like to learn more about mindfulness approach to healing agoraphobia and you’d like to work with an online psychotherapist like myself, do please reach out to me by email and let’s schedule a Skype therapy session so you can begin to experience directly how effective mindfulness therapy is for overcoming agoraphobia. Thank you.

How to beat agoraphobia through Online Therapy

See an online therapist for agoraphobia

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional online therapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of agoraphobia. So if you’re looking for online psychotherapy for agoraphobia, then I do ask you to visit my website and learn more about this online service that I offer via Skype and then feel free to email me using the contact page to ask any questions you may have about this online psychotherapy approach for treating agoraphobia.

So Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I specialize in and have developed specifically for treating agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders, is extremely effective. It works in a very strategic and focused way on helping you resolve the fear reactions, the anxiety and panic attacks, that are a feature of agoraphobia.

So the primary approach that I will be teaching you is called Mindfulness-based. Exposure Therapy. So all forms of successful psychotherapy for treating agoraphobia will employ some form of exposure therapy.

Clearly that is a necessary component to help you extend the range of confidence that you have, to be able to move into areas that were previously very difficult for you, to move into different social situations and to leave your comfort zone and develop a much broader level of comfort. This is a necessary approach.

So we work by extending the boundaries of our comfort zone and we do this by developing a systematic approach, that is, that you will design a series of challenges to go to your comfort zone and move a little bit beyond that comfort zone on a daily basis.

But the important thing here that I teach in the mindfulness-based approach to exposure therapy is preparing before you do each challenge. I feel this is what is often missing. Simply throwing yourself into difficult and anxiety producing situations is not very efficient and probably not very effective for most people.

You have to train yourself out of the habitual anxiety reactions before you do each of the challenges and that’s the focus of mindfulness therapy and the mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So you set up a series of challenges and then we do the training. So the training is about meditating on each of those challenges. You start off by playing the challenge through in your mind in order to find those anxiety reactions. You want to get access to them under your terms so that you can work with them consciously rather than trying to struggle with them in the heat of the moment during the challenge.

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Selecting an Online Therapist for agoraphobia

So when you are selecting an online therapist for agoraphobia, do make sure that you find someone who offers psychotherapy via Skype. You need to be able to see each other in order to establish the quality of communication that’s necessary for effective psychotherapy.

But if you can see each other, then it’s really no different than meeting with a psychotherapist in-person; it is just as effective. So when you’re selecting an online therapist, make sure that they offer therapy using Skype.

The next consideration is to find a therapist who provides the right approach, the right style of psychotherapy that is most likely to work with agoraphobia and anxiety. So one type of therapy that works very well for the treatment of anxiety is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

This really helps focus your attention on the underlying reactive thinking that feeds your anxiety and prevents that anxiety from resolving itself. So we need to come to terms with all of the habitual reactive thinking associated with our anxiety and CBT is a good approach for doing this.

I teach Mindfulness Therapy, which incorporates CBT, but takes it a step further in helping you work directly with the anxiety underneath those reactive thoughts to help you heal that anxiety. And we do this by changing the relationship that we have with our emotions.

So the real problem with any anxiety disorder is this process we call “reactive identification.” This describes the process where you simply become blindly identified with the anxiety, where you become and the anxiety.

You become overwhelmed by the anxiety. When that reactive identification happens, it triggers reactive thinking, which in turn feeds the anxiety. So we have to overcome reactive identification. And the way we do this in Mindfulness Therapy is by learning how to build a mindfulness-based relationship with the anxiety itself.

We do this by learning how to meditate on the anxiety. We find the anxiety, you look for the triggers that trigger that anxiety. We bring it up in the mind consciously and then we start train with it to train out of the habit of reactive identification so we can sit with the anxiety and other emotions associated with that anxiety without becoming overwhelmed by it.

There are other techniques we use in Mindfulness Therapy to facilitate healing that involve working with the imagery of the anxiety. That’s a very important aspect of Mindfulness Therapy. We understand that emotions are primarily image-based.

They are structured around imagery and the properties of that imagery are what determine the intensity of the emotion.

So if you are suffering from very intense anxiety or if you experience panic attacks, then the chances are that the imagery of that emotion will be very large and very close.

Now, one of the understandings in mindfulness-based image re-processing is that we can change this imagery. The imagery is itself habitual in nature. When you bring conscious awareness or mindfulness to see the imagery clearly, that brings in the element of choice and you can begin to explore changing the imagery of your anxiety.

You can explore making it smaller and moving it further away along with many other changes that that you can explore and experiment with that help that anxiety resolve itself.

So this is what we mean by meditating on our anxiety. It’s to see clearly how that anxiety works, to uncover the patterns of reactive thinking and to uncover the imagery of the emotion, and then to explore actively facilitating change.

Changing the relationship to the thoughts so that we don’t become blindly identified with them. changing our relationship to the imagery and exploring how to change that imagery, to decrease the intensity of the anxiety.

So meditation is a very active process and that is what constitutes mindfulness meditation. It is not just a process of passive observation, but it’s a process of exploring what facilitates healing.

This is what the Buddha taught when he was teaching about mindfulness meditation and mindfulness. It has a purpose and that purpose is to bring about the resolution of suffering.

So the primary teaching of the Buddha is one of awakening to suffering and exploring the resolution of suffering and that is the guiding principle behind mindfulness meditation. We awaken to see the actual structure of the anxiety, to see what is actually there in terms of reactive thoughts and in terms of the imagery.

And then we explore making changes that help the anxiety heal. And this is technically called the response of compassion in Buddhist psychology. And that’s very much a part of the Buddha’s teaching.

So Mindfulness Therapy is a direct extension of the Buddha’s teachings on how to to liberate ourselves from suffering, and anxiety is a form of suffering.

So if you’d like to learn more about getting help for overcoming your agoraphobia using mindfulness therapy, then please contact me and we can schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.

I am based in Colorado, USA, but I provide online therapy for agoraphobia world-wide in an effort to make mindfulness-based psychotherapy more available and accessible for the treatment of anxiety disorders like agoraphobia.

I welcome your inquiries and I look forward to meeting you and helping you break free from social anxiety, social phobia and agoraphobia.

The methods I use are effective and you will see results after only a few sessions. The first session can be quite significant in getting you started on your road to recovery, so please contact me to schedule a Skype therapy session now. There is no charge unless you are completely satisfied with the first session.

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Most of my clients see major improvements after 3-4 weeks of mindfulness therapy combined with the mindfulness-based exposure therapy program that you will practice at home between sessions

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Agoraphobia Therapy Online via Skype

Agoraphobia is best described as a fear of being in an “unsafe space” and this often manifests as a fear of leaving the security of home.

Welcome. If you’re looking for an online therapist for help with agoraphobia, then please go to my website and take a look at the pages and videos on the site, because I offer online therapy via Skype for the treatment of agoraphobia and many other anxiety disorders.

So if you’re suffering from agoraphobia, it’s obviously very convenient and often sometimes quite necessary to find an online therapist just because it’s so difficult to leave home. I have worked with people who have not been able to leave home any great distance sometimes for years.

The approach that I use is called mindfulness therapy and it works extremely well for overcoming the anxiety and fear of panic attacks that characterizes agoraphobia.

Being able to work online is very important. But you must use Skype or similar video platforms so you can see each other. That is from my experience, quite essential for effective psychotherapy. But if you have Skype or similar platform and you can see each other online, then it is just as effective as meeting a therapist in person. And in many cases, it can be more effective because you feel more secure in your home environment, and that will increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy.

So the mindfulness therapy approach that I use works very well online through Skype. And most people that I work with see significant improvements within a matter of weeks.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

So in mindfulness-based exposure therapy, we train for each challenge by playing it through in the mind. Sometimes this is called imaginal exposure therapy, but it is quite essential to do this before you do each challenge. You play it through in the mind. You watch very specifically for any anxiety reactions and any anxiety-producing thoughts that typically accompany an anxiety reaction.

When you’ve identified these reactions, you then begin to work with them using mindfulness. So most anxiety reactions are based on habit, they operate unconsciously without any real conscious awareness of the reactive process that is happening. We need to really change that status completely because in order to break free from a habit, you must bring a great deal of conscious awareness to it. And that’s why we play through the challenge scene in our mind in order to activate this anxiety so we can work with it and conscious awareness to it.

We then train ourselves to change the relationship that we have with this anxiety and the accompanying thoughts that get triggered when we imagine doing the challenge. We had to change our relationship from one that is unconscious to one that is fully conscious, that is mindful. So we up a mindful relationship with the emotion and its associated thoughts. This is the first key step to overcoming that habit.

The second step is working with those thoughts and the emotion in a way that promotes healing.

With the thoughts, the anxiety-producing thoughts, our main mission is to be able to see them to respond consciously, but then to move the thoughts further away so that we develop more space and more freedom that goes along with that space. Typically, thoughts exert their effect in producing anxiety because they are too close. We feel overpowered by them. And in order to feel overpowered by anxiety thoughts, they must be very close.

If you move them further away, if you imagine moving the thoughts further away and making them smaller, you will effectively reduce the intensity of those thoughts. So we train in that way using our imagination to make the thoughts smaller and more distant.

For the emotion, we develop a relationship that’s based on non-reactivity, but also on compassion. The emotion is basically the equivalent of a child that is experiencing fear. So we look at the emotion as being a scared emotion, an object that is scared. And the best way to overcome fear is to develop a compassionate relationship with that person, that animal or that object, that emotion.

So we work on developing a compassionate relationship instead of a fearful relationship towards the anxiety itself. This is precisely what the anxiety needs to heal. The fundamental issue is that anxiety reaction has become dissociated from your True Self. So we have to bring it in to consciousness and give it the compassion and the fearless quality of your True Self in order to help it heal.

Your True Self is really that conscious awareness itself, that which is the space around thoughts and emotions. Your True Self is not the same as the thoughts and emotions or other content that make up our common experience. Your True Self is that conscious awareness that sees the experience, and the essential nature of your true self is that it is not reactive and it does not feel fear. It does not suffer.

The best analogy for your True Self is like the sky. The sky is that space in which objects appear and disappear. It might be a storm or it might be a plane, or a bird. Those are all objects. They appear and then they disappear. But the nature of the sky remains constant. So the true nature of the sky is that space. And the true nature of your True Self, your true identity, is the space of pure conscious awareness. It doesn’t matter what the objects are that it sees. They come and go. But the consciousness remains the same.

So that principle is very, very important and it’s something that we develop very much in mindfulness therapy. We develop that relationship between your True Self, pure conscious awareness, and the anxiety. We sometimes call that the little self.

So in this way, we’re able to bring the quality of fearlessness to the anxiety, which is fear, and this is what will neutralize that anxiety.

So there’s a lot more to learn about mindfulness therapy and the mindfulness approach to working with the mind and to working with anxiety particularly. But it is very, very powerful.

The mindfulness approach is a very, very powerful path to develop, and it will lead to changes much faster than conventional talk therapy. It allows you to fundamentally change the relationship you have to your mind. And that is what is needed for effective healing and effective wellbeing and happiness. You have to break out of the habit of reactivity.

So if you’d like to learn more about online mindfulness therapy for overcoming agoraphobia and you’d like to work with an online therapist like myself, then please send me an email. Tell me more about yourself and your particular condition and tell me what you’ve tried so far.

Also, tell me what days and times work for you and then we can go ahead and set up a Skype therapy session.

So please contact me and let’s get started with your recovery process from agoraphobia. Thank you.

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Online Therapist for Agoraphobia – Psychotherapy via Skype for agoraphobia

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I provide online therapy via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression and also for agoraphobia.

So if you are interested and getting help to overcome your agoraphobia, then you might consider seeing an online therapist like myself. I have made it a mission to try and provide effective practical ways of working with the anxiety and panic attacks associated with agoraphobia, and that’s why I offer this online therapy service.

The central method that we use is called mindfulness-based exposure therapy. As you will undoubtedly understand by now, it is extremely important that you not fall into the trap of avoidance. You must face your anxiety and face those situations that trigger that anxiety, but you must do it in a strategic way with appropriate training.

We start by setting up a series of challenges and then we work through each challenge in a systematic way starting with easy challenges and progressing to harder challenges. But the important thing is that you do each challenge well and that you reach your goal of being able to do that charge without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

So we learn to work mindfully with those thoughts. We learn to not identify with those thoughts. We learn to see them as objects. And not become lost in that series of habitual thoughts.

So we find each emotional reaction and we help it heal by the quality of our relationship to it, developing more compassion and more consciousness.

Then after this training period, which may be half an hour of meditation before the challenge, we then go and do the challenge and we put it into practice.

We put the training into practice. We recognize the anxiety it arises. And the training will help it resolve during the challenge.

We then meditate after the challenge on any fresh anxiety that did not resolve. So we train with that anxiety and help it resolve in the same way.

Most people see results very quickly when they take this strategic and very in-depth approach to working with anxiety.

So, you can expect and you should expect to see significant changes within three to four sessions. And then when you start to apply these methods yourself you will continue that progress and eventually you will get to that position where you do not feel overwhelmed by anxiety or panic attacks.

So, that is our firm commitment. Our firm goal in Mindfulness Therapy it is not to tolerate or manage anxiety, it is to eliminate it. It is to heal it. If you’d like to get started please contact me.

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Agoraphobia Help Online via Skype

Through progressive challenges and mindfulness training you will soon make progress in overcoming your agoraphobia. Email me if you would like online help for your agoraphobia.

Welcome. My name is Peter strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online help for agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders that may be affecting the quality of your life. I offer online therapy, which is of course very convenient if you’re suffering from agoraphobia.

The style of therapy that I offer is called mindfulness therapy and this is a very practical hands-on approach that gives you tools that you can use between therapy sessions to progressively overcome your agoraphobia.

So, mindfulness therapy consists of a combination of two important aspects. The first is designing a series of progressive challenges. That’s very important, of course, that you try to face your fears and not simply give into them. But you need to do this in a progressive way starting simple and then progressing to more difficult challenges.

The other part of this approach is to do training before you do any kind of exposure challenge. You need to prepare yourself so that if anxiety gets triggered, that you will have trained such that that that anxiety will dissipate or resolve itself on the spot in the presence of the particular triggers that trigger the fear, anxiety or panic attacks. So we train beforehand.

We do this by developing a very different quality of relationship to our anxiety and this is the hallmark of mindfulness therapy.

The real problem is not so much the anxiety itself but our reactions to that anxiety. We tend to develop patterns of fear-based reactions to our anxiety and other emotions that tend to feed that underlying anxiety and stop it resolving itself.

You look for the anxiety that gets triggered in your mind and then you change the way that you relate to that anxiety. And the most important thing is not to become identified with the anxiety; to see the anxiety as if it was a visitor or simply an object in the mind.

Then we can learn to develop balance in relationship to that object. So you can sit with your anxiety without becoming anxious. That’s the most important first step in the training before you do any challenges.

The second step is to respond to that anxiety with a quality of friendliness and compassion. This also is a vital part of the mindfulness approach. Mindfulness is this combination of consciousness and friendliness.

During meditation on our anxiety we establish this kind of internal parent which we call our true self. It is not afraid it is able to establish a relationship with the anxiety that is not based on fear based on compassion. This is exactly what the fear needs in order to resolve itself. And that is what we call the True Self-Little Self Alliance.

It is very, very effective indeed, and most people see significant improvements after three or four weeks practicing the techniques that I will teach you.

So, if you’re interested in online help for your anxiety and your agoraphobia do please send me an email and schedule a therapy session via Skype.

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Online Therapist by Skype for the treatment of Agoraphobia

Online Psychotherapy for recovering from Agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist specializing in online therapy and I offer online therapy for agoraphobia.

So, agoraphobia online therapy is very effective for people who really can’t get out of the house to work with a therapist in their local area.

So, during these sessions that I offer via Skype, I focus on teaching you very effective mindfulness-based methods of working with your anxiety and panic attacks.

The real important thing to understand here is that Agoraphobia is really a psychological habit. I prefer to call it a habit rather than a disorder because when you start labeling these psychological states as disorders that tends to reinforce your sense of helplessness as a victim, and we don’t want to do that.

The actual mechanism that generates the anxiety and panic attacks of agoraphobia is a habit and habits can be changed. So during online agoraphobia therapy sessions I will guide you in how to work with the underlying emotions and thought patterns that supports that anxiety.

We do this in a surprising way. We actually learn to make friends with our fear. This is very, very important. You can’t change the belief when it has a very strong emotional charge based on fear.

No amount of rational arguments or persuasion that you don’t need to feel this way is going to change that anxiety. You have to learn to work with the anxiety directly. And that’s what you do during mindfulness therapy. We actually learn to meditate on your own fear as you imagine walking or traveling out of your safe zone.

So, we set up a series of challenges, exposures, if you like, where you choose to do a particularly difficult exercise but one that you can manage. But then we prepare for this by playing it through in the mind it might be walking around the block or just simply leaving the house for a few minutes, whatever it might be.

We design a challenge and then we prepare for it by meditating on it. We play it through in the mind and then we look for the fear reactions and we look for the thought reactions that feed that fear and then we develop a mindfulness-based relationship with these emotions and thoughts, and that relationship is based on friendliness.

You learn, essentially, to sit with your emotions and thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them, without losing your balance. This is central. This is a central part of mindfulness training, that you can be with your thoughts and emotions but not be overwhelmed by them. When you can do dance then you start to break the habits that get reinforced by re-traumatizing, essentially, that fear.

So, we learn to sit with our emotions without becoming reactive and without identifying with those emotions. We learn to develop this other side of our identity, which we call the True Self, the Observer Mind, that which can be conscious of thoughts and emotions but is not identified with thoughts or emotions.

We then work with those emotions and begin to treat them very much as you might treat a child that’s afraid. we learn to comfort the emotion itself, the fear. you build a strong relationship with it, rather like a parent to a child. And in this way the fear reaction, that we might call the Little Self is able to let go of its fear by proximity to your True Self which is fearless nature.

So, in this way we begin to build resolution pathways in the brain. You learn, basically, how to help the emotions resolve themselves, so that if they get triggered they simply resolve instantly, on the spot, through the training that you’ve done before you do the challenge And then you go out and walk around the block or whatever and put this training into action.

So, we repeat this process over and over again. Meditation before challenge and we do the challenge and we may come back and meditate some more and then we repeat the challenge until we no longer feel any fear in doing that challenge. Then we move on to a harder challenge. And in this way we gain more and more confidence in the process.

So, when you are able to neutralize these emotional reactions then the beliefs begin to change quite automatically. We don’t need to try and change our beliefs. We simply need to change the emotional content that fuels those beliefs and makes them so powerful.

If you would like to learn more about agoraphobia therapy online do please send me an email and we can schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.

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Treating Agoraphobia from Home via Skype

Welcome!. My name is Peter Strong. I provide online therapy via Skype. So treating agoraphobia from home is very important because it’s so difficult for you to leave the security of your home or secure area, and being able to get the help you need is really important and it’s very difficult, obviously, if you can’t leave home.

So that’s why I’ve developed this online therapy program for treating agoraphobia from home, and it involves Mindfulness Therapy, which is what I specialize in and have been teaching for many years now for working with anxiety disorders, panic disorder and agoraphobia.

So the real basis of mindfulness-based treatment for Agoraphobia is setting up a very systematic set of exposure challenges.

Mindfulness-based exposure therapy is a very effective method because it’s very strategic and structured in its approach. It starts off by setting out a series of challenges. Those are the exposures, but you must train for each challenge before you do them.

So traditional exposure therapy, which relies on some degree of habituation and familiarization is really very ineffective. It’s much too unstructured, really, to achieve much effect. In the case of agoraphobia you have to really learn how to neutralize the anxiety before you do the challenge.

The challenge is really putting that into action so that it becomes experientially relevant and becomes a learned experience. But you have to train for it ahead of time.

So this kind of approach works. If you’d like to learn more about home-based training and home-based treatment for agoraphobia, then please contact me and we can schedule Skype therapy sessions at a time that works for you.

I see people worldwide, mostly in the USA but also in the UK and Western Europe, rarely anywhere where you have a good Internet access. That’s all you need for Skype therapy.

So please contact me if this interests you and you would like to break free from your agoraphobia.

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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy via Skype. Now, this is very convenient if you’re suffering from agoraphobia.

So if you’d like to get online help for your agoraphobia without having to leave home, then please contact me and let me know more about your particular needs and limitations.

And then I can explain to you how we can develop a treatment plan for your agoraphobia based on mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

This is a system of psychotherapy that I’ve developed over the years and I find to be very effective for the treatment of agoraphobia and many other anxiety disorders and panic disorder.

The thing that we’ll do during our sessions together is learn how to work effectively with your particular needs, your challenges.

We design a series of exposure challenges, whatever they might be, that you can work with on a daily basis to overcome your anxiety and panic attacks. And we prepare and train for these exposure challenges using mindfulness-based methods. This is what makes this approach unique and quite different than traditional exposure therapy.

So we go about this by preparing and training ahead of time by imagining doing the challenge, looking for any anxiety reactions that may occur and then fundamentally changing the way that we relate to those anxiety reactions.

This is the crucial step that is often missing. You don’t know how to work with those emotions when they come up. Most people simply become overwhelmed by the anxiety.

What makes the difference is when you can recognize the anxiety and then establish a non-reactive relationship with that anxiety. The same goes for all the various anxiety-producing thoughts that tend to proliferate when that anxiety is activated.

Instead of becoming identified with the emotion and its thoughts, we learn to see them as objects in the mind. We develop this quality of objective consciousness and this is what makes all the difference. Because when we train to stay as the observer, we are breaking the habit that causes the anxiety to form in the first place.

Anxiety is a habit. It’s habitual reactivity that operates out of consciousness. We see the effects, but are not conscious of the underlying habitual process. That’s the issue. When you make yourself fully conscious and you learn to sit with the anxiety and its thoughts without becoming identified and without further reactivity, then you start to break that habit. And when the habit is broken, then there is nothing left that feeds that anxiety and then the anxiety begins to change itself. It begins to heal in effect.

So Mindfulness Therapy is very much about promoting this internal healing of those habitual reactions. And this is what we practice and train in doing BEFORE we do any exposure challenges.

Then you do with the live challenge. Your training will effectively neutralize the anxiety and you find that you begin to become much more confident in those difficult environments and challenging situations.

When you practice in this strategic way, in this very focused way, practicing every day, you will quickly see quite substantial improvements, and most people are able to completely break free from their anxiety reactions, their habitual anxiety reactions within a matter of weeks when you take this mindfulness-based exposure approach.

So if you’d like to learn more and you’d like to schedule some Skype therapy sessions with me to learn exactly how to do this, then do please contact me.

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Where to get help for agoraphobia

Online treatment for agoraphobia via Skype

So, if you’re looking for online help for agoraphobia, then you might want to consider online therapy because online therapy allows you to have your therapy sessions without having to leave home, which, of course, is really important if you’re suffering from agoraphobia and you are essentially homebound or find it very difficult to travel any distance away from home.

So online therapy provides an excellent way of getting the help that you need to overcome your agoraphobia.

Selecting an Online Therapist for agoraphobia

They are structured around imagery and the properties of that imagery are what determine the intensity of the emotion.

So if you are suffering from very intense anxiety or if you experience panic attacks, then the chances are that the imagery of that emotion will be very large and very close.

You can explore making it smaller and moving it further away along with many other changes that that you can explore and experiment with that help that anxiety resolve itself.

This is what the Buddha taught when he was teaching about mindfulness meditation and mindfulness. It has a purpose and that purpose is to bring about the resolution of suffering.

So Mindfulness Therapy is a direct extension of the Buddha’s teachings on how to to liberate ourselves from suffering, and anxiety is a form of suffering.

So if you’d like to learn more about getting help for overcoming your agoraphobia using mindfulness therapy, then please contact me and we can schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.

I welcome your inquiries and I look forward to meeting you and helping you break free from social anxiety, social phobia and agoraphobia.

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How to get help for someone with agoraphobia without leaving home

Please feel free to contact me if you are suffering from agoraphobia and if you would like help in overcoming your agoraphobia. Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy is very effective and gives you the tools through which you can progressively overcome your anxiety. Most of my clients see big improvements after 3-4 weeks when they practice the methods that I teach.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional online therapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression and also for help with agoraphobia.

If you are suffering from agoraphobia and you’d like to get help from an online therapist like myself then I invite you to go to my website. Learn more about the Mindfulness Therapy Service that I offer for treating anxiety conditions like agoraphobia and then contact me and we can schedule a therapy session over a Skype.

I see lots of people throughout the USA and Canada and also the UK and Western Europe and as far away as Australia.

People like the convenience of online therapy and of course if you are suffering from agoraphobia then be able to talk to an online therapist is really essential because it’s usually so difficult to leave home to see a therapist in their office.

So online therapy works very well for people suffering from anxiety disorders. It also works very well for helping you learn skills that you can apply yourself between therapy sessions that basically help you build the confidence to be able to overcome your agoraphobia.

This of course involves what we call Exposure Therapy, that is really designing a series of challenges designed to extend the range of your comfort zone, so that you are progressively working with the anxiety and not avoiding it.

That is the most important thing when working with agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders. You must not avoid the challenges. You have to do them in a well constructed way, extending your exposure challenges each day, going a little further from home.

But you must also learn how to prepare for these challenges. It is not sufficient to simply jump into an exposure challenge.

So I have developed a system called mindfulness-based exposure therapy whereby you will learn to prepare yourself for each challenge and get a successful outcome in managing and resolving your anxiety so that you feel completely comfortable leaving home. And then you feel ready to try the next level of your challenge.

So the mindfulness-based approach to exposure therapy gives you the tools to overcome your anxiety and it works extremely well.

Most of my clients see dramatic improvements after three or four weeks of practicing mindfulness-based exposure therapy along with other techniques designed to help you actually resolve your anxiety, to overcome the anxiety and panic attacks that accompany agoraphobia.

Standard talk therapy can be useful, but often common talk therapy does not change the habitual psychological process that is the real cause of your depression or anxiety.

The same can be said for prescription medications – anti-anxiety medication may provide mask anxiety and depression symptoms for a while, but medications are not effective for healing the underlying process that produces the emotional pain.

The style of therapy that I find most effective is called Mindfulness Meditation Therapy, which is extremely effective for managing anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias and Panic Disorder and for treating non-clinical depression and other emotional problems resulting from habitual negative thinking.

Most of the people that I work with through Skype see significant reduction in the intensity and recurrence of their anxiety and depression after the first few sessions of Mindfulness-based Skype Therapy with me.

Go to my website and email me to find out more about this online therapy service and to schedule an online Skype session with me.

This online therapy service is available world-wide, including the USA, UK and Europe. All you need is an internet connection and you are ready to start online therapy.

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Online help for agoraphobia via Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional online psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other common anxiety disorders and emotional disorders.

The mindfulness therapy approach is extremely effective, especially for working with the anxiety associated with agoraphobia.

So if you are interested in agoraphobia therapy online and you would like help for your agoraphobia then do please go to my website, learn more about this approach and then e-mail me with any questions you have.

So, getting help for agoraphobia online is going to be very convenient and very important for you if you are suffering from this condition because it’s so difficult to leave home. Online therapy means you can have sessions in the comfort of your own home and get the help you need to free yourself from this crippling anxiety disorder.

I will guide you using mindfulness therapy and teach you specific mindfulness techniques to help you build confidence and reduce the level of your anxiety.

As you continue to practice these methods you will soon be able to leave home and gradually expand the area that you feel comfortable in until you completely overcome the anxiety and panic attacks associated with your agoraphobia.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

The secret is to take a very focused and disciplined approach that combines progressive exposure with mindfulness training. You will learn how to prepare for each exposure challenge by playing it through in your mind and then processing any anxiety that arises before you do the challenge. This is important. Exposure therapy is not enough by itself.

So, if your first challenge is to walk to the end of your driveway, then you will rehearse that in your mind and watch for any anxiety that gets triggered and then process that anxiety by cultivating a friendly and comforting relationship with that anxiety.

It is always helpful to look at the anxiety as a mental object that you can relate to. Even better is to see the anxiety object as being like a child or animal that is in pain and needs your help and compassion to heal its pain.

The more you practice comforting the emotion and the less you identify with it and become overwhelmed by the emotion, the faster it will heal. You can teach the anxiety emotion how to heal itself, but only if you form a non-reactive relationship with it. If you identify with it and react to it with fear and aversion then you will simply feed the anxiety and stop it from healing.

Meditation is essential for healing agoraphobia

The path of mindfulness involves meditating on the anxiety that gets triggered as you do each of the challenges that you set for yourself. Meditation means developing more consciousness and more compassion towards the anxiety-emotion as an object.

During meditation you are training yourself to stay as the Observer, the True Self that can observe the emotion objectively without becoming overwhelmed by it.

The more compassion you develop towards the anxiety, the stronger the shift to your True Self. With practice you gain more and more freedom from the pull of the anxiety-emotion until it ceases to have any power over you. Then it undergoes healing and resolution at an accelerated rate.

Anxiety is habitual in nature and can only sustain itself if you feed it through repeated reactivity where you lose your perspective as the Observer. Developing your natural Observer state of being is analogous to learning to develop balance on the bank of a river. When balance is strong you will not be prone to falling into the river.

The same applies to reactive anxiety. The stronger the balance in relationship to the anxiety, the less power it will have and you will stop feeding it through your reactivity, which means that it will heal faster and eventually there will be no anxiety left.

Imagery plays a big part in anxiety

We also work on changing the imagery associated with the anxiety. For, example, making the inner image of the anxiety very much smaller in size can have a profound effect on the intensity of the anxiety. In this preparatory phase we literally train the emotion to shrink in size and become less overwhelming.

It is a general rule that an intense emotion will have very large associated emotional imagery; low intensity emotions are very small in size. We utilize this rule to help heal the emotional reaction.

This approach is very effective and most people see dramatic changes after the first few sessions and generally I would say after about 12 sessions with me you should be almost completely free from anxiety and be able to go wherever you want to go.

If you would like learn more about agoraphobia help online, do please go to my website and do please email me and schedule a Skype therapy session to get you started on your recovery. Thank you.

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Treating Agoraphobia from Home via Skype

Online Mindfulness Psychotherapy for Recovery from Agoraphobia and Social Anxiety Disorder without relying on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications

Talk to a Psychotherapist Online over Skype for effective online help and psychotherapy for overcoming Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder

If you want to recover completely from agoraphobia you must treat the underlying habitual anxiety reactions.

Medications don’t do this. Medications only provide a tempry relief from anxiety symptoms, but do very little to change the underlying psychological cause of your anxiety.

During Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy (Mindfulness Therapy) we work on neutralizing these habitual reactions directly at the psychological level. This approach is extremely effective and most of my clients see significant improvements after 3-4 Skype sessions.

Online therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy as long as you use Skype, FaceTime or Zoom so that you can see each other. Being able to see each other is essential for effective communication and effective psychotherapy.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

One of the most effective ways of overcoming the intense anxiety reactions of agoraphobia is through training in Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia.

Effective strategies for the management of agoraphobia will involve some form of Exposure Therapy, but what make Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy particularly effective is that it involves training with the anxiety reactions before you do your exposure challenges.

Repeated exposures by themselves is not likely to have much beneficial effect, but if you train yourself to neutralize your anxiety reactions before each challenge then the results from each challenge will be very much better.

The method used to neutralize your anxiety reactions is called Focused Mindfulness Meditation, where you deliberately play through the challenge in your mind in order to access the anxiety and then neutralize that anxiety through changing your relationship to the anxiety through the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy that I will be teaching you during our sessions together.

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Everyone that I have worked with really enjoys the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…

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Online Help for Agoraphobia via Skype

Agoraphobia online support – Skype Therapy for help overcoming agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders, including agoraphobia. So if you’re looking for online support for agoraphobia then this is a good service for you to consider. Just go to my website and read more about this online therapy service and the mindfulness therapy approach for agoraphobia, and email me with any questions you may have.

So mindfulness therapy is one of the most effective ways of treating anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia. What it does is it teaches you how to break free from this central problem that we call Reactive Identification. This is where we become overwhelmed by thoughts and emotional reactions that get triggered, and it’s very important to break this habit because every time we become overwhelmed and become identified with our thoughts and with our emotions we feed those emotions and they become stronger and this simply intensifies the anxiety.

The approach to overcoming agoraphobia is one of mindfulness-based exposure therapy. It’s fairly straightforward. Basically, you will design a number of challenges that you will prepare for each and every day. And you start with very simple challenges that you can do with very little anxiety. But nevertheless you prepare for that challenge, whether it’s walking outside into the garden or walking around the corner. That’s often a big trigger for many agoraphobics when they can no longer see their house. Whatever the challenge we practice for it beforehand. And that’s really what makes mindfulness-based exposure therapy for agoraphobia somewhat different than more conventional approaches.

We do this by playing through the challenge in our mind, we imagine ourselves doing the challenge, but we would then watch for any anxiety that gets triggered in the mind. And this is before we do the challenge.

When we notice that anxiety that gets triggered by the thoughts of walking around the garden, or around the block or whatever it might be. Then we focus our conscious awareness, our mindfulness skills on that emotion with two purposes in mind. The first purpose is to establish a relationship with that emotion which is conscious and in which you do not become overwhelmed, is not reactively identify with that emotion, you’re able to be with the fear but not become afraid. So that’s the first essential part of training and preparation before you do any of your challenges.

The second part of preparing for our challenge is to work with the emotion itself and help it heal, help it resolve, help it reduce its intensity, again before you ever do the challenge itself. And there’s a number of ways that we do this, but yet again the most effective first step is to establish a relationship with your fear in which you are not afraid. So you are effectively being with your emotion and not feeding that fear. So you, in that process, develop more and more freedom from that fear. You become stronger by sitting with that fear.

We also work with other factors which contribute to the anxiety such as the imagery of the fear, how you see it and the mind is absolutely central to how the motion works. And typically the fear is very large and very close and that’s what causes that fear to manifest. When we start to investigate this imagery we can change it because we have a conscious relationship with it. When you change the imagery you most definitely change the emotion. So that’s another very important part of mindfulness therapy which is part of the training that you will do yourself before you do your challenge.

I will teach you how to do these two steps involved in preparation for your challenges. And when you practice this in this very strategic focused way and then you will most definitely diminish that anxiety until you feel completely confident and comfortable in doing your first challenge and then moving on to a harder challenge. And in this way we progress until we overcome the agoraphobia altogether.

So if you’d like to learn more about how to do all this simply go to my website and please send me an email and we can schedule some therapy sessions at a time that works for you.

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Online Therapist for treating Agoraphobia by Skype

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy which I offer online via Skype for treating anxiety disorders including agoraphobia.

So I’m often asked if there is a cure for agoraphobia. Can agoraphobia be cured? And the answer is yes it can, as long as you take a very strategic and disciplined approach to overcoming the underlying anxiety of agoraphobia.

The biggest problem that I encounter is that people tend to get into patterns of avoidance. They tend to try to avoid any triggers that might create anxiety. But you have to understand that avoidance itself is a form of anxiety-based reaction and that simply feeds the underlying anxiety. So taking a disciplined approach that’s against avoidance is very important. You must not avoid your anxiety. You will not help it heal or change if you do.

So we have to learn to work with our anxiety, but in a very skillful and effective way and that’s where Mindfulness Therapy comes in. It’s a very effective way of working with anxiety and reducing and eliminating anxiety so that you can restore your freedom to move that you had before the onset of your agoraphobia.

So the methods that I teach are basically mindfulness-based exposure therapy for agoraphobia. So this is where we set up series of challenges, progressive challenges of increasing difficulty that you work through in a very strategic and focused way using mindfulness. And I will teach you how to work with your anxiety using mindfulness during these online therapy sessions.

If you take this very strategic mindfulness-based approach to exposure therapy you’ll see results very quickly and most of my clients see dramatic changes within a matter of weeks once you start applying these techniques yourself, that is what is most important.

I will teach you in great detail exactly how to do this. I will teach you how to apply mindfulness to overcome your anxiety. I will teach you how to set up a schedule of exposure challenges. I will teach you how to meditate and train with your anxiety. That’s what we do during these sessions.

So if you would like to learn more about this approach for overcoming your anxiety and curing your agoraphobia, then please contact me and we can schedule some Skype therapy sessions. So please contact me now.

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Online treatment for agoraphobia with panic disorder

My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy and I provides online treatment for agoraphobia and panic disorder using Mindfulness Therapy.

So if you’re looking for an online therapist to help you overcome your agoraphobia and panic disorder, then please go to my website and learn more about my online therapy service and then contact me with any questions you may have about Mindfulness Therapy and online therapy and how to get started with this approach to help you overcome your agoraphobia.

The Mindfulness Therapy approach is very effective. It is a combination of exposure therapy, which is of course very important, whereby you construct a series of challenges that are manageable that you repeat on a daily basis.

But then it combines this with mindfulness training to work on the anxiety that you may anticipate or that may have occurred during one of these exposure challenges. And that’s what makes the mindfulness approach so effective. It is very strategic and it helps you actually learn how to process the specific anxiety that has triggered in your challenges, whether that might be just walking outside of your front door, or going to a mall, or some other place, whatever it might be.

You know what triggers anxiety and panic attacks. So it’s absolutely essential that you don’t avoid these triggers. That is the biggest trap that causes us to become trapped in a negative cycle of anxiety. You must not avoid your triggers, but by the same reasoning, you must not simply re traumatize yourself by exposure to these triggers.

You have to prepare for them very strategically and rehearse ahead of time using mindfulness techniques so that you are prepared when you are exposed to those particular triggers.

When you take this approach you will see benefits very quickly and indeed most of my clients who I’ve worked with over the years see dramatic changes within the first few sessions once you start applying the mindfulness methods that I will be teaching you.

So if you’d like to learn more about how to overcome agoraphobia and panic disorder then please reach out to me by email and let’s get started.

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