Online Therapy For Anxiety and Depression

Online Mindfulness Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety & Depression

Struggling with Difficult Emotions?

Do You Want to Learn Better Ways to Manage Your Emotions?

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Please feel free to contact me by email to schedule Online Mindfulness-based psychotherapy with me. During these Skype sessions of Mindfulness Therapy I will teach you how to apply mindfulness, including mindfulness meditation for facilitating recovery from all forms of anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, chronic depression and other forms of emotional suffering using the well-tested methods of Mindfulness Therapy.

This approach is remarkably effective and you will notice noticeable reduction in the intensity of your anxiety or depression after the first few online sessions with me.

Online Mindfulness-based Skype Psychotherapy is very effective for managing anxiety and depression without the need for drugs. It is better to treat the cause of your emotional pain instead of just treating symptoms.

The main healing factors developed during Mindfulness Meditation Therapy are Conscious Awareness, which is vital for neutralizing the negative habits that cause emotional suffering, and Inner Compassion, which is what accelerates healing and resolution of emotional suffering.

“Sessions with Peter are enjoyable – he is kind and patient and gentle. I love that the understandings I’m gaining in the sessions not only help me to heal my emotions but also contribute so much to my spiritual path.”

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Specific conditions treated by Online Mindfulness Therapy:

• Online Mindfulness Therapy for Anxiety
• Online Therapy for Driving Anxiety
• Online Therapy for agoraphobia
• Online Mindfulness Therapy for Depression
• Online Mindfulness-based Stress Management
• Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD
• Online Mindfulness Therapy for Addictions
• Online Mindfulness Therapy for OCD
• Online Mindfulness Therapy for Insomnia
• Anger Management Online
• Marriage Counseling Online via Skype

Online help for anxiety and depression – Online Mindfulness Therapy

Playlist: Online Therapy for anxiety and depression

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional mindfulness-based psychotherapist and I offer online therapy via Skype for help with anxiety and depression. If you would like online help for anxiety or depression then please go to my website and learn more about the online therapy service that I offer via Skype.

This service is available worldwide. I’m based in America and most of my clients live in the USA, but I also see clients in Canada and as far away as Western Europe and Australia. If you’re interested in learning how to work with anxiety and depression using mindfulness then please contact me.

Mindfulness is extremely effective for treating anxiety and depression and mindfulness therapy is a process of teach you how to do this, how to Use mindfulness effectively.

We actually learn how to meditate on our anxiety and depression. Learning to meditate on our emotions is a central feature in mindfulness therapy. Generally, we tend to do the opposite. We spend all our time trying to avoid anxiety or depression, even using meditation as a distraction from our emotional pain, trying to get away from the mind in every way we can, and most of us generate internal aversion towards our emotional pain.

We don’t like anxiety, we don’t like our depression, we don’t like our loss of control, we don’t like these compulsive drives that seem to ruin our life. So, really, from a mindfulness perspective, avoidance and aversion are your main enemies and they are the main forms of reactivity that actually feed anxiety and depression and prevent it from healing. So this is why we learn to meditate on our anxiety or depression.

We actually learn to develop a friendly and conscious relationship with our emotions because this is essential for their healing. You cannot overcome anxiety if you try to avoid it, or if you try to avoid situations that might trigger anxiety. That is not recommended.

In fact, I will teach you the opposite – you need to face your anxiety. You need to go to those very situations that cause anxiety or trigger anxiety and you need to practice with those situations using mindfulness until you have overcome the anxiety habits, because it is habit that causes our anxiety or our depression and these habits thrive on not being seen, on ignorance, unawareness.

So that’s what we overcome by meditating on our emotions. We actually bring conscious awareness to them and non reactivity to see our emotions very clearly. This is the first part of mindfulness training.

The second part of mindfulness training is actually interacting with your emotions and helping them change. This is the response of compassion, which is an essential feature of mindfulness.

If you would like to learn more about how to get help for your anxiety or depression online using mindfulness then simply go to my website and learn more about the mindfulness approach to healing anxiety and depression, and then contact me to schedule a therapy session. I have many spaces available and we simply email each other to find the time that works, taking into account your timezone, etc. So if you’d like to learn more about how to use mindfulness to overcome anxiety and depression do please send me an email. Thank you.

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How does online therapy compare to therapy in-person?

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist and I specialize in online therapy that I provide over Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression and other emotional problems without the use of medications.

This is not a medical treatment. This is a form of psychotherapy called mindfulness therapy that I’ve developed over the years and found to be particularly effective for anxiety and depression.

So I’m often asked is online therapy as effective as in person therapy? And the answer is yes it is, certainly. For the vast majority of people online therapy is just as effective as therapy in person, especially if you use Skype or similar video platform so you can see each other. That’s the key ingredient.

You must be able to see each other to really have good communication which is so important for effective psychotherapy. So if you can see each other then in my opinion there is no appreciable difference between online therapy and therapy in the therapist’s office.

Now online therapy does offer some advantages. Clearly it’s more convenient for you the client, because it means you can conduct your therapy sessions from home or from work or even in your car. All you need is a quiet place and a good internet reception and then you can conduct online therapy.

So people like the convenience, and people living in remote areas or for people living abroad, if you’re based in a foreign country, you may not have access to the right kind of psychotherapist. And so online therapy gives you greater options for getting the kind of help that you are looking for from managing emotional problems such as anxiety or depression or addiction.

A lot of people like the greater privacy offered by online therapy. You don’t have to wait in a therapist’s office or similar public environment like that. You can conduct your sessions in the privacy of your own home and that’s a big factor especially if you are struggling with a difficult set of emotions that you might be experiencing such as with depression or with addiction. So that greater level of privacy from your point of view is often just what we’re looking for.

The other advantage of online therapy is that it’s more comfortable for you as well. It’s much less intimidating than the more typical clinical based therapy that’s offered in a psychotherapist’s office setting. From my point of view, my philosophy, is that we want to make psychotherapy as comfortable as possible. It should not be clinical in nature.

I personally do not advocate a medical approach for treating anxiety or depression. Medications may have some value in controlling symptoms but medications will do very little indeed to change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression or addiction. That requires the right kind of psychological help, working with the underlying habits that cause your anxiety or depression or other emotional problem.

So the style of psychotherapy that I specialize in and find works best for the vast majority of people online is mindfulness therapy. This is a particular system of psychotherapy that I’ve developed over the last ten years or more that really focuses on working with those underlying habits which are primarily based around habitual reactive thinking.

Now thoughts do not create anxiety or depression as is often thought. It’s not the thoughts themselves that create anxiety depression. It’s the way that we become identified with those thoughts or beliefs. It’s the way that we become trapped in that stream of negative reactive thinking.

That’s the problem. And this is I call reactive identification. And that’s a big part of mindfulness therapy is learning how to dis-identify from thoughts beliefs and memories as well.

Also, working with emotions we need to build a relationship with those emotions that helps them heal. And if you identify with the emotions and become overwhelmed by your anxiety or depression that will prevent healing. So that’s another reason why we focus on developing a mindfulness based relationship that is not reactive with your emotions, because that is what is the most essential component for healing.

So anxiety and depression are habits. It Is better to think of them as learned conditioned habits rather than a disorder or some sort of medical illness. That may apply in a very, very small number of cases. But generally for the vast majority of people their anxiety and depression are best thought of has habits. They are learned habits.

We are not born with anxiety or depression. We acquire these habits through time and often through trying to cope with emotional trauma in childhood. It’s very common as a common starting point for the anxiety habits of the depression habit. Addiction often flows from that underlying anxiety or depression.

So we work on these habits very, very systematically in a focused way. We learn to dis-identify from the reactive thoughts. We learn to establish a healing relationship with the emotions based on compassion, which is a very important part of mindfulness teaching in general.

And people see results quite quickly when we take this kind of strategic mindfulness based approach. So generally I tell all my prospective clients you should expect to see change in the first three or four sessions. You should expect to see significant improvements.

I do not support this concept of open ended psychotherapy which can go on for months or years even, where you are simply talking about your problems.

Talk therapy that is based on just talking about your problems, is seldom enough to change those underlying habits. So mindfulness therapy focuses on changing the cause, the underlying habits, and is quite different than conventional talk therapy or counseling that you may have experienced in the past.

So if you’d like to learn more about Skype counseling therapy for anxiety or depression. If you would like to start sessions with me, then reach out to me by email.

Simply contact me through my website and we can schedule a Skype counseling session at a time that works for you.

I see people throughout the USA, Canada, a few in Mexico ,and certainly lots of people in Western Europe the UK, and as far away as Australia and Japan. All you need is an internet connection and a willingness to learn how to change these emotional habits that cause so much suffering in our lives.

So if you’re motivated and you want to change then please reach out to me by email and let’s schedule a session. You will see changes even after the very first session. I will start to teach you the mindfulness based techniques that are so effective for healing anxiety and depression and for working with addiction too.

So please contact me and let’s get started. Thank you.

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Therapy Online – An excellent choice if you want to take charge of your emotional well-being

This is an excellent choice if you prefer more privacy and anonymity offered by the online format when talking about difficult emotions or for seeking help with an addiction. Online Therapy also offers convenience to you since you can have your sessions at home. Please feel free to email me if you would like to learn more about Skype Therapy with me.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I provide therapy online over Skype. Many people like the convenience of online psychotherapy because it means that you can manage your own therapy process from home without having to leave home and go to a therapist’s office. This is much more conducive to making progress, in my opinion, because you feel more in control. It’s less intimidating and it’s just much more empowering for you to be able to have your therapy sessions at home.

If you are interested in learning more about therapy online through Skype, do please contact me through my website.

So, the style of therapy that I offer, which works extremely well online, is called Mindfulness Therapy. The whole focus of Mindfulness Therapy is to teach you very effective, practical ways of managing your anxiety or depression.

This means looking at the underlying structure of your emotions. What do I mean by the structure of emotions? Well, every emotion is associated with some form of underlying imagery. An emotion is created by the way that we see the emotion or thought in the mind.

If, for example that imagery is very large then that will produce very intense feelings. If the imagery is positioned above us in our inner psychological space then we will feel overwhelmed. That’s why we use terms like feeling overwhelmed or feeling that your emotions are getting on top of you, feeling weighed down by your anxiety or depression, etc. These are visual phrases referring to a visual psychological process.

So, this is a very important area that we explore during Mindfulness Therapy sessions. We want to see this imagery, because when you can find out more about the structure of that imagery then you have choices, then you can begin to change that imagery in a direction that leads to change in the emotion.

When you change the imagery you change the emotion.

Then you can literally feel that you are getting on top of the situation, you are getting on top of your emotions, because we see our self on top of the emotion. That is exactly what is happening psychologically. Now we can take charge of that process by bringing mindful concentration and conscious awareness to examine the structure of our emotions.

So, this is one part of the mindfulness-based online therapy that I offer.

Another part of the mindfulness therapy  process is learning how to change your relationship to your emotions, entirely, so that you are not compelled to identify with those emotions and become a prisoner of the emotions that get triggered.

Mindfulness therapy is about learning to break free from those emotional habits and this is made possible more consciousness of those habits. the more you illuminate emotional habits, the less power they have, the more the imagery will change, and the more you will feel the sense of choice, of freedom in relationship to those emotions.

So, those are two of the processes that we explore during mindfulness therapy, and each of these sessions can be very powerful, indeed, in helping you fundamentally change the inner landscape of your emotions.

If this interests you, do please CONTACT ME and lets schedule a Skype therapy session.

Online therapy is becoming very popular these days and there are now many online therapy sites to choose from, but very few offer this quality of mindfulness therapy that I provide online.

So, if Mindfulness Therapy interests you lets schedule a session through Skype and see how it works for you. Thank you.

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Online Mindfulness-based Therapy via Skype for overcoming Anxiety and Depression without using Drugs

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I provide online mindfulness-based therapy for overcoming anxiety and depression without using drugs.

Treat the underlying cause

So drugs may have usefulness in extreme circumstances for managing symptoms but, of course, that’s all the drugs are able to do. They do not treat the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression or OCD or any other psychological problem.

The underlying cause for anxiety and depression is psychological. It’s the result of certain unconscious habits that have become established. These habits are triggered by various factors maybe internal factors like thoughts and memories. It can be external factors such as a phobia for example around driving. So the external site of a highway or being stuck at a cross section red light can be a trigger that triggers this underlying habit that creates the anxiety or a panic attack.

So this is what Online Mindfulness Therapy is trying to address. It’s how to help you change those underlying habits that cause your anxiety or depression. We don’t want to just ignore those habits by medication because that will not help them. They typically will simply get stronger over time because they are not being addressed. So we do not recommend medications. We would much prefer to actually get to the root cause of your emotional suffering and help you change things there.

Consciousness – the habit breaker

We do this in Mindfulness Therapy by actually developing conscious awareness, that’s mindfulness, around these habits because typically the habits simply become unconscious; they become reactive, they become conditioned and they operate out of consciousness.

So the first step must be to bring consciousness back to see those habits very clearly to be able to identify the triggers, whether that’s internal thoughts or memories, maybe traumatic memories, or whether it’s external triggers.

We have to really understand that part of it and then we need to focus on what exactly happens in the mind when you are exposed to one of these triggers. So we might choose to meditate on particular thoughts or beliefs or traumatic memories in order to see what the mind does, how it reacts, what that habit actually is.

The more consciousness you bring to the habit the less power the habit will have. So that’s the whole purpose of consciousness. That’s why it has evolved in the human mind because it allows us to override habits and that’s has a tremendous survival value for humankind as a species.

But when we are working with anxiety and depression we want to look at these habits carefully. We want to identify the reactive thoughts that get triggered because those reactive thoughts have the effect of feeding and reinforcing the underlying habits. Rumination is a major factor in depression and also in anxiety.

This tendency to become obsessed with habitual reactive thinking is the main source of energy that fuels anxiety and depression. So we need to see those thoughts and not just become blindly identified with them, and not become lost in those thoughts. We need to see them clearly and then retrain the mind to be able to see the thoughts clearly but without identifying with them.

So this is called mindfulness-based therapy to overcome reactive identification. So reactive identification is the most important process that goes on in a habit formation. It’s why you become lost in the stream of reactive thinking or secondary emotional reactivity, as well. We tend to get lost in the mind and that simply reinforces the habit.

So we learn to sit with these emotions and with the thoughts that are triggers and not become lost in them and not become overwhelmed. So this is a training process, and mindfulness meditation is fundamentally a training process. Retraining yourself on how to relate to your thoughts and emotions and memories without becoming identified.

The second part of our mindfulness meditation process for healing anxiety and depression is to look at the internal structure of your emotions, and that internal structure is almost always based around imagery. Internal psychological imagery is the primary organizing force that keeps anxiety depression in place. The reactive thoughts, they feed the anxiety, but the anxiety itself is maintained through internal imagery.

Emotions are produced by internal imagery

So we look at this imagery. We look at what color your anxiety or depression is. Color is part of its imagery. We look at the how large it is. Obviously if the imagery is very large then the emotion is going to be very powerful. We look at the position of the emotion, the psychological imagery of your emotion. If it’s high in your visual field then it will have more power than if it’s in a lower position.

So these are some of the factors, some of the simple parts of the imagery of emotions that we look at and examine when we are meditating on our emotions, and really seeing how they work. When you see more of the imagery then, of course, you can experiment with changing that imagery. And the golden rule here is that when you change the imagery you change the emotion. They are directly related.

So this is how emotions heal. They will have to undergo some form of image transformational reprocessing in order to fully heal, for the emotional content to really change. So we basically speed up this process by really examining that imagery in detail and then exploring in great detail how to change the imagery and find what it is that helps the imagery and the emotion resolve itself and heal.

So you could really make a simple statement here that the real cause of anxiety and depression is imagery that has not changed. It remains stuck, frozen in time. And we need to change that imagery and we need to come back and reprocess it in order to overcome emotional suffering.

In the case of PTSD this is a very dominant primary process here because those traumatic memories are what causes your trauma when you re-experience that situation. The anxiety and depression result from that re-traumatization. But the trauma itself, the emotional distress, is caused by the image itself, the flashback image. Generally, again, you will see that traumatic image is too large, too close, probably too high in your visual field, you may see it at head level or above you or directly in front of you. And it will have very intense colors.

These are what actually causes the trauma. So when we work with PTSD we look for this imagery, this memory imagery in this case, and we basically reprocess it. We change that imagery. We find how we can change it in a direction that basically neutralizes that re-traumatization.

One classic way we do that is to miniaturize the image. So just make it extremely small in size, and when you do that you often will find it will take away 90 percent of the intensity of the memory image itself.

So working with imagery is extremely important. It’s a fundamental part of mindfulness-based psychology and psychotherapy.

If you would like to learn more about online mindfulness-based therapy for overcoming anxiety and depression and OCD and also for working with PTSD then please do contact me and let’s schedule a Skype Therapy session.

So I offer therapy via Skype worldwide. All you need is an Internet connection and we can schedule our Skype Therapy sessions. Skype Therapy is very effective, in general, because you can see each other. It’s many times more effective than chat-based therapy or email therapy because those don’t have this visual component.

If you use Skype and you can see each other there is really no difference whatsoever in the effectiveness of online therapy compared to meeting a therapist in person. And in many cases I would argue from my experience that Skype Therapy can be more effective because it is much more comfortable for you.

It’s less intimidating. It has less that clinical feel to it which is not good because it makes you feel like a victim. And that’s not going to help the process of recovery. So especially if you’re suffering from an anxiety disorder, Skype Therapy is a very good choice for you to consider.

So please contact me if you’d like to get started with me. Most of my clients see results in a very short time. Often after three or four sessions people see and experience big changes in the intensity of their anxiety and depression. My students feel much more empowered, much more able to do things that they weren’t able to do before. They feel more in control. That’s the whole aim here: to restore that sense of being in control of your happiness and well-being.

So please contact me if you’re interested in mindfulness-based therapy via Skype.

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Online Therapist for Anxiety & Depression

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional psychotherapist living in Boulder, Colorado. and I provide online therapy via Skype for anxiety and depression.

This is a very effective and convenient service in which you can work with me using Mindfulness Therapy to work on resolving anxiety or depression or other emotional issues that you may be facing.

So, during these sessions I will teach you very specific ways of working with these emotions that allow you to break free from the cycle of blind habitual reactivity that feeds emotional suffering, and to learn how to resolve the underlying cause of these emotions, using the very powerful methods of Mindfulness Therapy that I developed over 10 years ago.

The first skill that we have to develop is to overcome those patterns of unconscious habitual reactivity that cause you to become identified with your emotional reactions. For example, when fear gets triggered in you, you tend to become the fear, as in “I am afraid.” If anger is triggered, we become angry. If something upsets us, we become upset, and so on. There is this strong and unconscious tendency to become whatever gets triggered in the mind.

However, with mindfulness training we start to break free of this blind reactivity simply by becoming more consciously aware of the reaction. The awareness has the effect of counteracting habitual reactivity.

Instead we start noticing the reactions that arise instead of becoming them. This simple change in perspective brought about by mindfulness training has immense beneficial consequences for us because it essentially cuts off the fuel source for our anxiety or depression, anger or other emotional suffering.

This is the first step, but there is much more that I will teach you during the online therapy sessions.

So, please, if you are interested in online mindfulness therapy for anxiety or depression contact me. Visit my website to learn more and then send me an email with your questions, and to schedule a session. Thank you!

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Online therapy – Skype Therapy

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional psychotherapist. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy, which I offer online through Skype therapy sessions.

So, what is online therapy? Well, basically this is a way of getting help with anxiety or depression or addictions from a therapist using the internet. It is sometimes called Internet Therapy or even Skype Therapy, especially if you are using Skype as a way of talking with each other.

I greatly prefer Skype for talking with clients because it allows us to have a much more direct and intimate form of communication, we can see each other, communication is just much more effective, when we can see each other as well as hear each other.

So, Mindfulness Therapy, which I offer online is one choice that is becoming very popular indeed, especially for working with anxiety, also with depression and addictions. This works particularly well online.

There are many other kinds of online therapy available, and if you are choosing online therapy, I recommend that you make sure that you can talk to the prospective therapist first, before you spend any money on their service.

Make sure that the quality of online therapy that’s being offered matches your needs and your style, and that it feels right for you. This is very important, so make sure you can talk to your prospective therapist either through Skype or through email communication before hand.

I would recommend, never pay upfront for online therapy; always make sure that you are satisfied with what you receive and then make your payment. That’s certainly what I offer in my online therapy service. I should also point out that you would be well advised to follow this same advice when seeking psychotherapy in-person with a local therapist. Whether online or in-person, trust your instincts as to what feels right for you.

If you are interested in Mindfulness Therapy, in particular, please visit my website and learn more about Online Mindfulness Therapy. This is a very effective way of working with anxiety, depression and addictions, by helping you change the underlying cause of the anxiety or depression, rather than just treating the symptoms, and it’s really much more effective than traditional talk therapy where you are just talking about your emotions.

It is much more effective if you look at the underlying process that creates those emotions. Looking at the patterns of reactive thinking and the structure of the emotion itself – how you see that emotion internally – very important, indeed, for producing effective change.

If you would like to learn more about the online therapy service that I offer, please contact me via email and ask any questions you have and when you feel comfortable then we can schedule an online therapy session.

Most people who choose the Mindfulness Therapy option can expect to see quite significant changes within, probably, 4 and 6 sessions; this is quite typical. The reason why it is so effective is because we look at this underlying cause, the underlying process. I can’t emphasize that enough. That’s what leads to change if you really want to get over anxiety or depression or if you really want to recover from an addiction.

So, please contact me and let’s schedule a session of Mindfulness Therapy to help you recover from anxiety, depression, addiction or any other form of emotional suffering that is affecting the quality of your life and your relationships. Thank you!

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Mindfulness-based Therapy Online via Skype

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I am a Mindfulness-based therapist. I live in Boulder, Colorado and I offer Online Mindfulness Therapy. If you are suffering from anxiety, or depression, or stress, Online Mindfulness Therapy can be a very good solution to help you in overcoming anxiety, depression or stress.

Something that you can do in the comfort of your own home, and all you need is a computer with a webcam. So, are you suffering from anxiety or depression or are you struggling with stress in your relationships? Then you might want to consider Online Mindfulness Therapy.

So, what is Mindfulness Therapy and how does it work? Well, mindfulness can be described as a form of awareness. In my book, The Path of Mindfulness Meditation, I describe mindfulness as engaged-presence.

This means it’s a way of establishing a relationship with your reactive emotions that is characterizes by openness, acceptance, friendliness and compassion. Because, emotions, the core emotions that are hurting within you, they need your attention, they need your caring, in the same way that you would care for a friend who is in pain.

You know that the most important thing is to be able to sit with your friend with quietness and listening and tuning-in, very carefully, to your friend’s need to communicate and express himself. And, so it is with our inner emotions.

Most of the time, we do not engage with our emotions with presence. What we usually do is we react against the emotions, we avoid them, we try to get rid of them. We do everything, except sit with the emotions and be present, and this is absolutely essential for healing to take place. It creates an inner therapeutic space in which healing can occur. So, this is a central focus in Mindfulness Therapy.

The other part of Mindfulness Therapy is simply learning to recognize our reactive patterns, the patterns that keep us caught in repeating harmful cycles of emotional reactivity and negative thinking, over and over again, like a broken record player.

So, mindfulness attempts to change our inner patterns of reactive emotions and thinking. It’s a very direct approach because it works with the process that creates our emotional suffering and our anxiety. Often people notice dramatic changes in as little as 3 to 4 sessions.

So, do you want to change your reactive emotions? Do you want to feel better about yourself? Do you want to feel more able to connect with other people, less conflict? Do you want to overcome your patterns of anxiety?

If so, please simply send me an email. This is a free email consultation – your chance to tell me about your problem and how you would like to change. Then I will explain to you how to go about doing Online Mindfulness Therapy. I can answer your questions and we can schedule a session. It’s very easy to get started, so please send me an email for your free consultation. Thank you.

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Benefits of Online Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression via Skype

There are many benefits to Online Therapy and being able to speak with a therapist online.

Convenience is one of the clear benefits, especially for people living abroad or in rural areas.

Another benefit of online therapy and counseling is that most people find it much more comfortable than office visits, and there have been studies showing that people see significantly better results with online therapy when compared to office-based psychotherapy, especially if they are suffering from an anxiety disorder.

How do I get started with Online Therapy?

It is very easy to get started. Simply email me. Let me answer all your questions and when you are ready, you can schedule a Skype session of Online Therapy. Most people find the Mindfulness Therapy approach that I offer online to be very informative and helpful. In these sessions you will learn very practical ways to deal with difficult emotions, and because the approach is so focused, you will usually notice significant improvements after 3-4 sessions.

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Does Online Therapy Work?

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I am a mindfulness therapist based in Boulder Colorado, and I offer online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression, for OCD, for addictions and also for PTSD, which is something I’m particularly interested in.

So people ask me all the time does online therapy work? Is online therapy an effective way of getting professional help to manage anxiety and depression? And my answer is that yes, online therapy is very effective. Online therapy does work.

But you have to look at a couple of factors. The first is that online therapy works best if it also includes some form of video interface like Skype.

Being able to see each other is very important for effective communication and for effective psychotherapy. You have to be able to see each other as well as speak to each other in real time. So if you can use Skype to talk to your therapist then that therapy is going to be, practically, just as effective as meeting in person with a therapist.

Some forms of psychotherapy may be focused around developing a very close relationship or perhaps some form of Hands-On intervention like Body-centered therapies may not be effective when delivered online. But for most of the forms of talking therapy, certainly, therapy via Skype is just as effective as meeting in person.

You have to also remember that you can’t get a prescription medications through online therapy sessions, but that’s fine. From my point of view I don’t advocates medications for the treatment of anxiety or depression because they don’t really address the underlying cause of your emotional suffering.

So in the online therapy sessions that I offer, we look very closely at the underlying psychological process that is causing your anxiety or depression. You look at the process that has become habitual, that has becomes stuck and that continues to generate your emotional suffering.

Mindfulness Therapy is extremely effective for doing this because it’s essentially a way of learning how to investigate your own mind, how to investigate your thoughts and emotions, without becoming lost in them. And so the first stage in Mindfulness Therapy is this, of learning how to overcome the habit of Reactive Identification.

This is the common process where we become lost in our thoughts, where we become overwhelmed by our emotional reactions and we basically lose perspective and lose the element of choice in how the emotional reactivity affects us.

So being able to overcome reactive identification is a very important stage in any kind of psychotherapy, and it is the central focus of Mindfulness Therapy.

I will teach you how to overcome reactive identification so that you can effectively be conscious of your emotions or thoughts or memories or trauma, or in the case of PTSD, without becoming identified. So you can sit as the Observer and look at your own emotions and thoughts.

When you can do this, when you can develop this level of conscious observation, then you can begin to exercise choice and begin to help change those patterns of emotional reactivity.

So anxiety and depression and addiction and OCD and also traumatic emotional reactivity are, at the end of the day, psychological habits, and these habits can be changed by bringing consciousness to them.

So if you like to learn more about how to work with your emotions and reactive thought patterns using mindfulness then please email me and let’s schedule a therapy session using Skype so you can see for yourself just how effective online therapy can be and for helping you overcome anxiety and depression or any other form of emotional suffering.

So please email me and let’s get started. I see clients throughout North America and Western Europe and the UK and as far away as Australia. All you need is an internet connection and Skype and PayPal to make secure online payments for each session. So please contact me and let’s get started. Thank you.

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How to deal with anxiety and depression without medication

Online Mindfulness Therapy provides the training that will allow you to overcome anxiety and depression without the need for prescription medication or drugs.

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional online psychotherapist and I specialize in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression without medication.

I am often asked what is the best way to deal with anxiety and depression without medications? And I recommend that you look into online mindfulness therapy for anxiety or depression. This is one of the best ways of learning how to work with your emotions and with your thoughts in a way that neutralizes and heals anxiety and depression.

The biggest problem that causes anxiety and depression is the way that we become habitually reactive. We simply fall into patterns of reactive thinking that feeds the anxiety and depression. Once you stop feeding your anxiety or depression those emotions will start to resolve quite quickly and naturally by themselves. So learning the mindfulness based methods of working with anxiety and depression is in the long run much more effective than taking medications.

Medications may have their use, but it’s important to realize that medication will not change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression. It simply provides a temporary relief from symptoms.

So if you’d like to learn more about how to overcome anxiety and depression without using medication do please go to my website and then send me an email and we can talk about scheduling a Skype Therapy session, where I will help you learn how to overcome anxiety and depression without using medications, but learning to work with those emotions using mindfulness-based methods. So I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

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Online Treatment for Anxiety

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional therapist living in Boulder, Colorado. I offer online therapy via Skype.
Now, online therapy is becoming very popular these days, lately because of it’s convenience, but also because it’s generally more enjoyable for the client; far less intimidating than having to meet a therapist in his or her office. And this is very important; you need to feel comfortable with the process in order to be able to learn how to manage your anxiety or depression or addictions, or other issues that you are dealing with.

So, the online therapy option is now becoming very common indeed. So, I offer online therapy for anxiety disorders, including social anxiety, agoraphobia, panic attacks, and general anxiety disorders. I also offer online therapy for depression, and online therapy is a good choice for working with addictions, too.

Again, it is more comfortable for you, as the client. Sometimes people are embarrassed talking about their emotions in front of a group or even in front of a therapist in person. It’s just easier talking to a therapist online.

The style of therapy that I offer online is called Mindfulness Therapy, and this is very, very effective for anxiety, particularly. It’s a way of teaching you how to sit with your emotions, how to be present with your emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them.

And this is the essential first step for overcoming anxiety, panic attacks, depression and addictions. You have to be able to form a relationship with your emotions; you have to be able to sit with them. And that way, you create the right conditions in which they can start to heal.

You can learn much more about Mindfulness Therapy by visiting my website and please contact me. Send me an email and ask your questions about online therapy and I will be happy to answer your questions, and then we can schedule a Skype session. So, please, head on over to my website and contact me. Thank you!

People suffering from anxiety often find the thought of going to see a therapist it very intimidating. The online treatment option is much easier and means that you can get the help you need without leaving home. Online treatment is ideal if you are suffering from social anxiety or agoraphobia.

Online Treatment for Depression

Mindfulness therapy is a good choice for treating depression because the focus is on teaching you practical methods for managing reactive thinking and painful emotions.

Depression Treatment Online may also be the best choice if you are also suffering from anxiety and find it difficult to leave home to visit a therapist in-person.

The focus of Mindfulness Therapy for depression is to help you break free from the habitual patterns of blind reactive thinking and rumination that feeds depression. Rumination describes where you become overwhelmed by negative thinking and where these dysfunctional thoughts tend to proliferate.

Reactive thinking does not help heal depression, it simply serves to magnify and sustain depression, and not only that, but it actually prevents depression from healing.

All emotional states will naturally heal and return to a state of neutrality when allowed to do so, but rumination and other forms or reactivity prevent this natural process of resolution. This is why it is so important to focus on neutralizing reactive thinking and this is why it is a primary focus of Mindfulness Therapy.

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Best Online Psychotherapy will use Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional Online Therapist. I specialize in mindfulness therapy for treating anxiety, for help with panic attacks, for help with depression and OCD and many other emotional problems that cause distress.

So if you’re looking for the best online therapy sites available, you need to find those that are allowing you to talk to a therapist in person and also to be able to see them using a video conferencing technology like Skype or FaceTime. The best online therapy must include this visual component as well as being able to talk to each other in real time. This will greatly improve the quality of communication and of course that is essential for any form of psychotherapy.

The next thing you should be looking for for the best online psychotherapy service is one which really focuses more on helping you change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression rather than just talking about your emotions.

There are many chat sites which allow you to simply vent your feelings to someone who is willing to listen and be receptive and that of course is very helpful. But it’s important to understand that talking alone will not change the underlying habitual process that causes your emotional suffering. That needs more than just chat or talking.

You need to work with a therapist who can help you change the underlying structure of your emotions. And this we do at two levels really the first level is working with thoughts, reactive thoughts. So CBT the cognitive behavioral therapy approach is very good for this. So the best online therapy a service is going to offer you some form of CBT.

I teach mindfulness therapy, which incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, but also works more at the level of emotions. It helps you change the structure of the emotions themselves. The most important thing you will learn from working with the best online therapy sites is how to stop this habit of becoming overwhelmed, becoming identified by thoughts and by the emotions themselves.

This is a problem that we call “reactive identification” and it’s really the main issue that we have to change, and mindfulness therapy is one of the best ways of doing this, of essentially learning how not to be overwhelmed by thoughts or emotional reactive habits.

You can learn to see a thought or an emotion without becoming reactive, without becoming overwhelmed. That’s the whole thrust behind mindfulness therapy. So whereas cognitive behavioral therapy focuses more on trying to challenge and prevent you having thoughts, it tries to teach you to change the thoughts directly, Mindfulness therapy tries to help you change your relationship to thoughts, so that they cease to have power over you, and that I have found to be the best approach, especially for anxiety.

So if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy for anxiety and for depression and you’d like to learn more about the best online therapy service for your particular needs, please do contact me and ask any questions you have about the online therapy process and also about mindfulness therapy and how it can help you.

I look forward to hearing from you and working with you using the techniques of mindfulness therapy and CBT, and please email me and ask me any questions you might have, and when you feel ready we can schedule an online therapy session over Skype or FaceTime and then we can get started.

Most of my clients see quite dramatic results when they start really working on that underlying process that causes anxiety or depression. And it doesn’t take that long. So you can expect to see quite significant changes usually within three to four sessions once you start really addressing the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression. So I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

Benefits of Online Therapy

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional psychotherapist and I specialize in mindfulness-based psychotherapy, which I offer online via Skype.

Online therapy is becoming very popular, and there are many distinct benefits to online therapy. Convenience is certainly one of the main benefits of online therapy, but other benefits are that it is generally much more comfortable for you, the client.

It’s much less intimidating than going to a therapist’s office, and this is very important, indeed, especially if you are suffering from anxiety, social anxiety or other form of general anxiety.

Feeling comfortable is extremely important to help you work with that anxiety, so the online therapy option has district benefits for people suffering from anxiety.

The other benefit of online therapy is that it allows you not only the right therapist to work with, but allows you to find different styles of psychotherapy than may be available in your local area. For example, many people come to me because they are particularly interested in Mindfulness Therapy, which is my specialty and that’s what I offer online.

Mindfulness Therapy is a very effective way of working with anxiety, depression, and addictions, too. It helps you, basically, break free of those patterns of reactive thinking that keep you imprisoned within anxiety or depression.

It allows you to change the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression or addiction by allowing you to form a healing relationship with your anxiety or other emotions that helps transform that underlying cause. This is a unique feature of Mindfulness Therapy, and is one of the reasons why Mindfulness Therapy is becoming so popular.

If you are interested in learning more about Mindfulness Therapy and you would like to schedule an online therapy session, please visit my website and email me, and then we can find a time that works for you and schedule an online therapy session via Skype. So, please go to my website and CONTACT ME. Thank you!

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Online Psychotherapy via Skype

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong, and I am a professional psychotherapist. I provide online therapy via Skype for help with anxiety, for the treatment of depression and also I provide addiction counseling online as well.

If you are interested in an online therapy service like this, please visit my website and email me and then we can see if online therapy is a good choice for you.

Online therapy is becoming very popular these days and it’s very easy to start online therapy. So, how do we go about starting online therapy? Well, basically, all you need to do is make sure you have a good internet connection, that your have downloaded Skype, because I offer my online therapy sessions over Skype, which is actually very effective indeed, especially for the style of Mindfulness Therapy that I teach. Besides Skype, you will need a PayPal account, which allows you to make secure online payments after completion of each online therapy session.

This online therapy service is available wherever you live. I have clients throughout America and also abroad, in Europe, the UK, and as far away as South Africa. So, it really depends on the time zone, finding a time that is convenient for you and also for me. So, if you would like to learn more about Online Counseling Therapy via Skype, please do contact me through my website.

The other thing you should do before starting online therapy is to make sure that the therapist you are interested in explains to you what to expect during online therapy sessions. In the online therapy that I offer, I always explain to you what the time course should be for online therapy.

You should expect to see results within 3 to 6 sessions of the style of therapy that I offer, which is called Online Mindfulness Therapy. It’s quite a different approach than traditional talk therapy – not so much talking about your emotions but rather changing the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression or addiction.

So, Mindfulness Therapy basically helps you break free from those patterns of reactive thinking that keep you trapped, that keep you recreating anxiety, depression or a compulsion. Because it works on changing the underlying cause, Mindfulness Therapy is much more effective than general online counseling or talk therapy. And, it’s also a very good alternative to medications. Medications, of course, treat the symptoms but not the underlying cause.

Skype therapy is a very effective alternative to in-person therapy. Most people really enjoy it and find it’s more convenient and also more comfortable as well. You need to use Skype or similar video platform so you can see each other.

But if you can see each other in real time, then there’s no difference at all in the effectiveness of online therapy via Skype when compared to meeting in person.

And from my experience, it can be actually a lot more effective because it’s more comfortable and also it’s more friendly and more centered on helping you learn practical methods of working with your emotions.

It’s less clinical in nature. This is a good alternative for people who are looking for something different than the conventional talk-based therapies and certainly as an alternative to medications.

The focus of Mindfulness Therapy is really to get to the heart of the issue, to really work with those underlying patterns of habitual reactivity, whether that’s emotional reactivity or cognitive reactivity. We have to work with these habits. Those are the primary driving force behind anxiety and depression and those need to be dealt with through a psychological process.

We need to look at the mind. We need to look at these psychological habits and work with them directly. Medications will not do that. And often just talking endlessly about your feelings is not sufficient to change those habits.

That is the key. And that is also the key difference between Mindfulness Therapy and conventional psychotherapy. We are trying to look at the structure behind our emotional suffering. How does this actually work? How can we change those habits?

And the primary way we go about doing that is by using the methods of mindfulness meditation. Now, the way that I teach mindfulness meditation is quite different than you may be familiar with.

Because for me, mindfulness meditation means meditating on the mind, directly looking at the anxiety and depression or emotional trauma or anger or grief or sadness or whatever it might be. We need to look at the mind to see how it works.

So mindfulness meditation is about doing this without any preconceptions, without judgment, without even trying to understand the mind. It’s not our place to understand the mind. It’s our place to see it clearly, to see how it works.

And the primary driving force for change is bringing these unquestioned and blind habits out of the subconscious level of the mind into the conscious level. So that’s why we meditate on our mind. We meditate on our anxiety, on our depression, on our thoughts.

If there are negative thoughts that we identify that are causing our anxiety and depression, we meditate on those thoughts in order to break this blind habit. The more that you bring them into consciousness, the less power they have. So this we refer to as the liberating effect of mindfulness.

When you bring them into the light of consciousness, they lose power and you gain freedom. That’s why it’s called the liberating effect of mindfulness, the more mindful you are of your emotional and cognitive habits, the more freedom you will gain and the more freedom you will gain, the more that those habits begin to heal and the more that you begin to shift from the conditioned mind into the unconditioned mind.

The unconditioned mind or True Self is that which is the conscious awareness itself. It’s the consciousness, the space in which you bring those thoughts for meditation. That space is your conscious self; it’s your True Self. It is not made of thoughts. It is not equal to the content of your mind. It is that which is able to be aware of the content of your mind. That awareness, that pure non-reactive awareness, that’s your True Self.

And the more that we return to our True Self, the freer we become from the habitual patterns of suffering and the more that we are able to discover true happiness and well-being. Happiness and well-being and wisdom are your natural qualities. They are the qualities of your True Self. We lose sight of our True Self when we become identified with these blind habits of reactive thinking and reactive beliefs and emotional reactivity and also behavioral reactivity.

So the problem is not the thoughts themselves, it is our relationship to the thoughts. For most of us, the relationship is unconscious. And that’s when the thoughts gain power over us. When we become conscious, that takes the power away from those habits, whether they are thought habits or emotional habits.

So bringing them into consciousness is the most important thing that you will do. And I will train you in doing this. I will teach you how to meditate correctly on the mind, how to meditate on your emotions, how to discover this liberating effect of mindfulness.

Only when you develop into that True Self, the observer consciousness, can those habits heal. So long as the habits remain unconscious, they cannot heal. But when you bring them into the conscious awareness, that is your True Self, then the healing begins and it progresses very quickly.

So if you’d like to learn more about online therapy via Skype and you would like to schedule some Skype therapy sessions to learn how to use mindfulness to overcome your anxiety or depression, then do please contact me.

I work a lot with emotional trauma. I see a lot of people who have panic attacks and problems with anxiety such as agoraphobia, and driving anxiety. I see a lot of people with driving anxiety.

These things can be changed. They are nothing more than habits. They can be changed very quickly through the techniques of mindfulness therapy. So please contact me if you are seriously interested in change and you want something different than medications or talking endlessly with a counselor about your feelings.

Talk therapy can be useful, but it is seldom enough to change these underlying reactive habits. Medications may have some place when things get really bad, but medications are not going to change those underlying psychological habits.

If you want to really break free and discover real freedom, to discover your True Self, then you need to work mindfully with those habits. And that’s what I will teach you during our online therapy sessions together. So please contact me if this interests you. Thank you.

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Before starting online therapy

• Make sure you email first and ask any questions you have about the approach and suitability of the service being offered for your specific needs. Remember that not all psychotherapy is the same and not all therapists will be suitable for what you need.
• Never pay up-front for any psychotherapy. Make sure the therapist offers a satisfaction guarantee. I would argue that this caution should apply to any psychotherapy – online or in-person.
• Make sure you discuss your needs for confidentiality. Skype is pretty secure and encrypted, which is fine for most situations. It is not yet HIPPA certified, but that is only an issue if Health Insurance companies are involved.
• Always trust your intuition and feelings about whether the online therapy is right for you. That will be a much better guide than reams of letters after the therapist’s name.

So, if you are interested in learning more, please do visit my website and send me an email, and I’ll be happy to answer your questions and help you get started with online therapy via Skype. Thank you!

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