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Agoraphobia is a chronic anxiety disorder in which there is a significant fear of open spaces, or more specifically, a fear of venturing too far from a perceived “safe zone” such as your house. It is characterized by an intense fear of having a panic attack and losing control.
Agoraphobia is caused by the reactive identification and blind attachment to fear-based thoughts and beliefs. Over time this blind attachment becomes habitual and each time we habitually identify with our fear-based thoughts we reinforce these anxiety reactions and when they become intense enough they result in a panic attack. Panic attacks result when a number of conditioned anxiety reactions become linked together to form an anxiety storm. This is usually accompanied by strong physical symptoms, sucha as a racing heart and shallow breathing. A panic attack is also reinforced by conditioned reactions to these psysical symptoms.
Do not feed avoidance
The biggest problem that sustains agoraphobia is avoidance. There is a very strong impulse to avoid anxiety, but every time you avoid facing your anxiety you inadvertently feed the anxiety, because avoidane is itself a fear-based reaction. Avoidance feeds fear.
Take a strategic and disciplined approach
During online video therapy sessions you will learn how to overcome anxiety and panic attacks through a strategic approach that combines Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy. This is a good choice for people who prefer not to rely on anti-anxiety medications for managing anxiety. It is always best to treat the underlying cause of anxiety rather than just managing symptoms.
If you commit yourself to taking a strategic approach and practice every day, you will overcome your agoraphobia and regain confidence and freedom to do the things that you want to do.
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MBCT)
Online Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a recommended treatment for Agoraphobia because it teaches you how to recognize and overcome the negative thinking that feeds anxiety. CBT is especially effective when combined with Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy and the principles of Mindfulness Therapy.
Mindfulness-based CBT teaches you how to overcome the blind reactive identification and blind attachment with fear-based thoughts and beliefs. Overcoming this blind attachment is key to overcoming anxiety and other forms of emotional suffering.
Thoughts themselves are not the problem, even the thought, “I might have a panic attack if I venture too far from home.” The problem comes when there is blind attachment to such thoughts. The blind attachment (called upadana in Buddhist psychology) essentially reinforces the fear associated with the thought. Also, identification with any thought tends to stimulate the proliferation of related fear-based thoughts leading to an overwhelming swarm of thoughts that feed the anxiety.
Therefore, the most effective way to overcome anxiety is to break free from the blind attachment to reactive thoughts and cut off the fuel source for the fire of anxiety. This is the focus of Mindfulness Therapy.
How does mindfulness work?
When you cultivate mindfulness of your emotions and thoughts, you become the Observer and those mental objects. A key principle explaining why mindfulness works is that the Observer cannot be the object Observed. When you suffer, it is because you become the observed. When you become the Observer, you cannot be the observed and the result is that you stop suffering. You can observe the anxiety without becoming anxious. The result is that the more you cultivate mindfulness, the freer you become from the reactive attachment that causes your anxiety and the intensity of the anxiety (or any emotion) diminishes until it ceases to cause suffering.
How Mindfulness heals Anxiety
The first requirement for healing your anxiety is to stop feeding the emotion with blind reactivity. Anxiety is like a fire which requires fuel to keep burning. The reactivity is that fuel. Cut off the fuel source and what happens to the fire? The fire burns itself out and becomes ash. The same happens with anxiety and other forms of emotional suffering when we stop feeding it with blind reactivity.
Mindfulness is the antidote to reactivity and it neutralizes blind reactivity which diminishes the intensity of the anxiety. The more mindful you are, the faster the anxiety heals until it is extinguished and becomes ash.
How to do Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy
Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy is essential for overcoming agoraphobia and this online service will guide you in real-time through the process of Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy using a video call on your smartphone as you prepare for and perform each exposure challenge.
You begin by designing a series of challenges (exposure challenges) and you progress through this list one at a time using the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy until you have overcome the anxiety associated with each challenge.
You prepare for each challenge throroughly before you do the challenge by imagining doing the challenge and watching for any anxiety reactions, which you work with using Mindfulness Therapy until they are neutralized. Only then do you execute the challenge. After completing each challenge you also review any reactions that may have arisen and you work with those reactions using Mindfulness Therapy until they have also been neutralized.
After a rest, you then reimagine doing the same challenge again, neutralizing any reactions that still arise and then repeat the challenge. You do this several times, building more and more confidence each time until you can do the challenge without any anxiety. Then you progress to the next challenge on your list, which you will undoubtedly find significantly easier to do after the success of the first challenge.
It is this systematic approach that makes Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy so effective.
Most people can expect to see significant improvements after 3-4 sessions once you start practicing yourself between sessions.
This Online Therapy service is available online via video call sessions, which is necessary if you suffer from agoraphobia and find it difficult to leave home.
It is also essential that you use a video call so that you can see each other and get moment-to-moment support from your therapist as you do your exposure challenges.
Online Therapy for Agoraphobia is available for all states in the USA, from New York and New Jersey on the east coast to California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado and New Mexico, as well as for Canada, UK & Western Europe.
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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.
Online agoraphobia therapy
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.
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.
It’s the same process that we will be applying to work with our internal fear. We build a compassionate relationship with our fear, and in a sense, we become the parent to that fear. And when that fear feels the connection to that part of you that is not reacting to the fear then the fear resolves and heals.
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.
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 videoconferencing 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.
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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado and I offer online therapy 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.
I am based in Colorado, USA, but I provide online therapy for agoraphobia world-wide.
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This online teletherapy service focuses on teaching you how to overcome the anxiety and panic attacks of your agoraphobia through guidance in Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy.
I will guide you in real-time via your smartphone as you do your challenges. We prepare for each challenge by imagining doing the challenge, such as walking to the corner, and watching for any anxiety reactions that may emerge. We then work with these reactions using the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy, learning to be present with the anxiety but without becoming overwhelmed by it.
The more consciously present you can be with your emotions, the less power they have. We build a mindful relationship with the anxiety and learn how to respond to the anxiety with compassion. This is essential.
We also investigate the imagery of the anxiety, since that emotional imagery is the major factor that causes the anxiety. As we meditate on the emotion we may notice that it is very large in size. That is important because the larger it is the more power it will have. But that imagery does not have to stay large, so we can investigate shrinking the image to the size of a grain of sand and see if that helps diminish the intensity of the anxiety.
Generally, the smaller it is, the less powerful it will be. There is lots more we can do with emotional imagery that helps the anxiety heal and diminish. When we have done this preliminary mindfulness work with the anxiety and we feel more confident, then is the time to do the live challenge.
This strategic approach makes a huge difference, especially when repeated every day until we are free from the anxiety. Then we progress to the next challenge, perhaps walking 2 or 3 blocks away. and so on.
This is a very effective approach and most people see significant improvements after 3-4 online sessions.
It is recommended that you use a video platform because being able to see each other greatly improves the effectiveness of online therapy.
See an Online Therapist for Agoraphobia
This online therapy service for the treatment of agoraphobia is based in Colorado and available in all USA states, from New York, New Jersey and the East coast to California, Florida to Massachusetts, as well as for Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland, and Western Europe.
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