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I specialize in online mindfulness therapy via Skype for agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders. This mindfulness-based approach is very effective and most people see big improvements after 3-4 weeks.

Please feel free to email me if you would like to schedule Online Psychotherapy sessions with me.

During these sessions I will teach you how to apply mindfulness for healing all forms of anxiety disorders, including Agoraphobia and Social Anxiety Disorder by applying the very effective teachings of Mindfulness Therapy.

This approach is remarkably effective and most clients see noticeable results after 3-4 sessions with me.

Online Mindfulness Psychotherapy is extremely effective for controlling the anxiety and panic attacks of agoraphobia without using medications. It is always better to treat the underlying cause of your emotional pain as opposed to just suppressing symptoms.

The principle healing factors cultivated during Mindfulness Therapy are Conscious Awareness, which is vital for overcoming the negative habits that cause emotional pain, and Inner Compassion, which is what facilitates healing and resolution of emotional pain.

“I changed more after 2 weeks of online counseling than after 2 years of talking therapy. My anxiety used to affect every part of my life. Now I feel alive again and enjoy life so much more. I thoroughly recommend this mindfulness therapy to anyone looking for treatment for anxiety or depression.”

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Welcome. My name is Peter strong and I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy 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 and find it extremely challenging to leave home to visit a psychotherapist.

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 need to manage your agoraphobia and that you can practice between therapy sessions to progressively overcome your agoraphobia.

Overcoming the intense fear and panic attacks that accompany agoraphobia is challenging, but it is totally possible to overcome agoraphobia when you have the right tools and if you are well-motivated to change. It takes discipline too. I assume that you have both discipline and motivation. If so, then you can expect to see significant improvements after 3-6 sessions with me.

During therapy sessions I will be teaching you specific mindfulness-based methods that have proven to be very effective for overcoming agoraphobia. The aim is to give you a set of tools that you can apply yourself to systematically overcome your anxiety. In each session we will develop and practice these tools. One of the most important approaches that I will teach you is Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for Agoraphobia

Challenges coupled with Mindfulness Training before and after challenges for Treating 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 and you MUST prepare yourself before each challenge. Exposure therapy alone is NOT ENOUGH.

The other part of this approach is to do mindfulness 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 the anxiety will dissipate and 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.

So, during the preparation step before a challenge you actually will be learning how to meditate on your anxiety. So you will play through the scene of perhaps walking around the block or whatever challenge you decide to start with. 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.

Friendliness is immensely powerful in overcoming fear. So you could think that of the fear emotion itself as being like a child. It feels isolated. It’s scared. And what does it need? The most important thing it needs is to feel a connection with its parent. The parent is not afraid.

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.

So when people are stuck in patterns of anxiety it’s because that alliance is missing within. So building that is essential. And there are many other things that we do during the training before each challenge session, but that’s a taste of Mindfulness Therapy. It is very, very effective indeed, and most people see significant improvements after three or four weeks of 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. Most people start seeing results after the first week of putting the mindfulness-based treatment plan into effect.

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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional online therapist based in Boulder, Colorado, and I offer online therapy for anxiety, depression, and stress, including PTSD, and I also offer online help for agoraphobia.

So if you’re interested in seeking online therapy for agoraphobia, then please reach out to me by e-mail. Tell me more about how I can help you. What you’re experiencing. And then we can schedule a Skype Therapy session and I will teach you how to overcome your agoraphobia using the well tested techniques of Mindfulness Therapy that I have developed over the years and found to be very effective for all kinds of anxiety disorders including agoraphobia.

Set up a series of challenges

The essence of what I will teach you during these online therapy sessions is how to set up a schedule of strategic exposure challenges. That’s the first thing that we will need to do.

That might involve walking outside that house, or walking into a shop, or whatever it might be, but some challenge, basically, that triggers anxiety. We want to use these challenges as a way of training out of that anxiety reaction.

So we set up a series of challenges and then the most important thing is that we prepare for each challenge using mindfulness meditation, which means that we play through that challenge in the mind, we look for any anxiety reactions that occur and then we meditate on those anxiety reactions themselves.

We basically learn how to dis-identify from those reactions. We learn to overcome the habit of becoming overwhelmed or controlled by those anxiety reactions. You learn to sit with the anxiety without becoming overwhelmed.

That is the second essential part of the mindfulness approach, and the third part of Mindfulness Therapy involves healing that anxiety that we find.

And this involves developing a very high quality conscious relationship with the emotion itself based on mindfulness and based on compassion or friendliness, and this approach works extremely well.

The biggest problem that I come across is that people develop a fear of their anxiety and they try to escape it. You try to avoid it. You look for distractions. Anything to get away from it. And that will not work.

You must learn how to form a stable non-reactive relationship with your anxiety and then respond with compassion in the way that I am advocating here, if you want it to heal. That is an essential requirement.

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So if you would like to learn more about how to overcome your agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy, then please reach out to me by email and schedule Skype Therapy session.

Mindfulness Therapy is very effective for all kinds of anxiety disorders and most people that I work with can expect to see significant improvements after three or four weeks, once they start applying mindfulness methods and executing them with these challenges that I’ve been talking about.

If you take this very strategic and systematic way of working with your anxiety then you will overcome your agoraphobia, and you’ll be able to extend your range and be completely comfortable in a wide range of circumstances that previously may not be possible for you.

Of course, doing online therapy for agoraphobia is very convenient, and sometimes it’s very necessary because it is so difficult to go to see a therapist away from home. Using Skype offers the significant advantage that we will be able to see each other and this is important, if not essential, for psychotherapy.

You don’t have to be physically present with a therapist, but you do need to see each other to communicate effectively.

So if you’re interested, please email me and let’s explore how Mindfulness Therapy can help you overcome your agoraphobia.

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Mindfulness-based Online Help for the treatment of Agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist based in Boulder Colorado, but I offer online psychotherapy via Skype for anxiety disorders and for the treatment of depression and also for the treatment of agoraphobia.

So many people like the idea of working with an online therapist to overcome agoraphobia. It means that you can have your sessions at home, which is an important consideration if you are afraid of leaving home in the first place.

So online therapy for agoraphobia is a way of getting the help that you need to overcome this anxiety disorder.

So I offer mindfulness based help for agoraphobia, and this is very different than conventional talk therapy and it actually helps you work with your emotions directly yourself. It teaches you how to change that habit of becoming identified with your emotional reactions, with your fear, anxiety or panic attacks.

The biggest problem that most people suffering from anxiety or depression have to deal with this problem of habitual reactive identification. This is where we simply become consumed by the emotion, we become overwhelmed by it, we become a prisoner of that emotional reaction. And this is a habit.

This is a psychological habit. We become conditioned to identify with the emotion in that way and it operates unconsciously.

So in mindfulness therapy we work on making it conscious. We actually work on making the anxiety much more conscious so that we can build a conscious relationship with the anxiety and learn to break this habit of reactive identification.

So you can hold the anxiety in the mind as an object and not become identified with it and not become consumed by it. That is very important, if not is totally essential part of recovery from any anxiety disorder, including agoraphobia.

So I will teach you how to do this. How to change the relationship that you have with your emotions so that you can gain greater power and they begin to heal and resolve themselves. I will teach you how to do this in great detail during our sessions together.

One of the things that we look at in great detail also, is the imagery of your emotions. So the imagery is what actually creates the emotion, the anxiety. This imagery typically is going to be very large, is going to be very close and probably all consuming. It is going to be overwhelming because it is very large in size.

That imagery, the size of the emotion, is what actually makes the emotion work. When we actually get to see the imagery consciously using mindfulness we can then exercise choice. We can begin to explore changing this habitual imagery.

And the rule is when you change the imagery you change the emotion.

So in order to heal anxiety you have to change its imagery, how you see it and the mind.

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The other very important principle of mindfulness based therapy is learning how to hold the anxiety and overcome the habit of reacting to the anxiety.

So we usually react with aversion. You do not like the unpleasant feelings associated with anxiety so we try to push it away. We try to avoid it. We try to distract ourselves from it in any way we can. But the rule here is, any form of reactivity will simply feed the anxiety. It will not help it heal or resolve itself.

So in order to promote healing we must do the opposite to aversion or avoidance. We must develop a conscious and friendly relationship with the anxiety. You have to begin to learn how to treat it with compassion.

Think of the anxiety as being like a child that is in pain and that has come to you for healing. This sets up the right conditions for healing. And this is another essential part of the healing process. Developing the right relationship with your emotions based on friendliness, consciousness and compassion.

The more that you do this the faster the anxiety heals itself and with practice you will begin to break free from the grip of anxiety and you’ll be able to extend your range of behaviors and move outside of that security zone that is usually where you try to hide from your anxiety.

Mindfulness-based Exposure Challenges for treating Agoraphobia

The other part of the mindfulness based approach to healing Anxiety and Agoraphobia is to take on deliberate challenges. Exposure therapy, in a sense. But mindfulness based exposure therapy is much more effective than classical exposure therapy.

So this is where you will set up a schedule of small challenges that typically would create anxiety but then you work on training yourself ahead of each challenge using mindfulness to find the emotion that gets case triggered and then to help it heal by doing things like changing its size, changing its imagery and changing your relationship to that anxiety that gets triggered in that situation.

When you’ve done your training, then you do the challenge and you evaluate how much anxiety arises during the challenge and then you might work on that anxiety afterwards as well using mindfulness.

So this way we’re training with the anxiety rather than avoiding it. The more you do that, the more you try and consciously with the anxiety the more that it will heal itself, and you will help it heal through that process.

So if you’d like to learn more about the mindfulness-based approach to healing anxiety and you’d like help with your agoraphobia then please contact me by email and let’s schedule a therapy session via Skype.

The mindfulness based approach is very, very effective and very focused in its approach. And generally people see quite noticeable changes in a relatively short time. I usually say you should expect to see changes within three to four weeks when you start applying the mindfulness based techniques that I will teach you during the sessions and that we will practice together during sessions.

So if you would like to learn more please go to my website and then please contact me. Ask any questions you may have about online therapy for agoraphobia. I’ll be happy to explain to you in more detail about how this works.

And tell me about your situation and I can explain to you how mindfulness therapy can help you in your particular situation. And then when you feel ready we can schedule a session together and you can see for yourself just how effective Mindfulness Therapy can be for overcoming agoraphobia.

It’s important that you take action, that you do not just accept your condition, that you work actively to overcome your fear and anxiety. This is what’s necessary, you must be committed to change if you want to change.

But if you are, then the mindfulness-based approach is one of the best approaches available. So please contact me. Thank you.

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Best Online Help for Agoraphobia

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional therapist and I offer online therapy via Skype for a variety of emotional and psychological problems that don’t require medical treatment, such as anxiety and depression and also agoraphobia.

So I offer online help for agoraphobia via Skype. And this of course is very convenient for many people who are suffering from agoraphobia, because it’s so difficult to leave home.

So during these online therapy sessions I will teach you how to work with your anxiety and panic attacks using the well tested techniques of Mindfulness Therapy.

Mindfulness therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is very effective and very popular these days because it focuses on helping you learn practical ways of working with your anxiety and reducing your anxiety and eliminating your anxiety.

Mindfulness teaches you practical methods to do this, and during our online therapy sessions I will teach you how to work with your anxiety using these techniques.

The basic most important part of getting over agoraphobia is to really take it on as a challenge rather than recoiling from your anxiety with fear.

So fear of fear of course makes things worse. Trying to avoid fear makes things worse. But facing your fear is what will leads to success. However, facing your fear has to be done in a very strategic and careful and measured way and that’s what we explore during Mindfulness Therapy.

So you will set yourself up a series of challenges that you can explore and develop each day and prepare for these challenges using mindfulness meditation.

Basically, this is where you meditate on the challenge that you’re about to do and look for any anxiety that gets triggered, and then work on healing that anxiety, that very specific anxiety in that specific context, by building a conscious and non-reactive relationship with that anxiety.

That’s what I mean by facing your fear. It’s not some general statement, that will not work. That’s of little value. It’s about facing the specific fear that is triggered in a specific situation.

For example, many people with agoraphobia find it very distressing when they try to leave their house and walk down the street to a place where they can no longer see the house. That’s very common. There’s also often a tremendous fear of having a panic attack away from the security of your home.

These are examples of triggers, and in the mindfulness therapy approach we use these triggers.

We actually will meditate on them and work specifically to help heal that particular anxiety that is triggered in that situation. And then we do the challenge. And then we meditate after doing the challenge to again work with any anxiety that may have arisen.

So this is a very strategic approach for treating agoraphobia that I call mindfulness-based exposure therapy. And if you do this consistently every day you will absolutely overcome your agoraphobia or any other anxiety disorder. The same approach works very well for OCD, for example.

If you’d like to learn more about this approach, then please send me an email. Ask any questions you have about online mindfulness therapy for agoraphobia and I’ll be happy to answer anything that you would like to explore with me.

When you’re ready we can schedule the first Skype Therapy session with you and in that therapy session we will get started straight away on developing some of these mindfulness-based practices and develop a exposure challenge schedule for you to start your recovery process.

Most people see really quite outstanding results when they take this approach and typically you should expect to see significant improvements after three or four weeks when you practice in this way.

So if you’d like to learn more need to get started with me to overcome your agoraphobia using mindfulness then please email me. Thank you.

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Effective Agoraphobia Help Online via Skype

Welcome! I provide online therapy via Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression and other emotional problems including agoraphobia. So if you’re looking for effective online therapy for your agoraphobia, then I invite you to please reach out to me.

Contact me through my website and ask any questions you may have about my approach and how to overcome agoraphobia effectively without using medications, and I will be happy to answer any questions you have, and when you feel ready, we can schedule some sessions.

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So I usually see people once a week, typically, in the case of agoraphobia. We may need to meet for six to seven or eight sessions depending on how well you do. The most important thing in overcoming Agoraphobia is your commitment to change.

If you are really motivated to overcome your agoraphobia and the associated anxiety and panic attacks, then we will be able to make progress. If you’re able to really work hard at your recovery process and put the methods into practice that I will be teaching you during the first sessions, then you’ll see results.

So what are these methods? Well the very first thing we must do is design a schedule of incremental challenges so that you have material to work with every day. But just throwing yourself into a difficult anxiety-producing situation is not a suitable strategy. That’s not going to produce results. Exposure therapy by itself is not usually very effective.

What we have to do is train with the mind. We have to prepare very carefully before we do any of these challenges, and that is the training that I provide called Mindfulness Therapy or Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy. So this is where we combine the methods and the technology of mindfulness for working with the anxiety reactions.

Anxiety itself is a habit. It’s not a disease. It’s not a disorder. It should not be treated with medications, in my opinion. It should be treated as a psychological habit. And habits can be changed when you bring more conscious awareness to them. And of course, that is the primary focus of mindfulness training is to bring more conscious awareness to your anxiety reactions and to the anxiety producing thoughts that tend to feed that anxiety.

Learn how to become the Observer

We must change our relationship to the mind, that is, to emotions and to thoughts and beliefs. We have to change our relationship to the mind. We have to become an Observer of these mental objects. Thoughts, emotions, memories, beliefs, perceptions, these are all technically called mental objects. They arise in the mind, they exist and they pass away.

The problem in the case of extreme anxiety and panic attacks and agoraphobia is that you become identified with these mental objects, these thoughts and emotions and beliefs. You tend to take on the identity of these mental objects and then you become a prisoner of these mental habits.

So in mindfulness training we are learning to break free from these habits by establishing our self as the Observer. The Observer is not the same as the contents of the mind, those are the objects. The observer is a totally different place within you that is separate from those objects. This objective consciousness is able to see thoughts but it does not become dominated by those objects.

So that’s the first part of mindfulness training: how to develop this quality of mindfulness that we call equanimity, which is rather like learning how to stand on the bank of a river without falling into the river.

So the river is not the cause of our suffering, it’s the lack of balance whereby we fall into the river. That lack of balance is the cause of our suffering. And it’s the same with the mind. Anxiety and anxiety producing thoughts in themselves are not actually the problem.

The problem is in this reactive identification. We just fall into the trap of these thoughts and emotional reactions. They are just habits.

The good news for you is that habits can be changed. All habits can be changed with increased conscious awareness, with increased mindfulness.

So the way we go about overcoming agoraphobia or any other form of anxiety disorder is by developing ourselves as the Observer. So that way we stop feeding the anxiety habit. When we stop feeding it, it has no choice but to continue its path of healing and resolution.

All anxiety will heal itself if you do not react to it. If you react it’s really like throwing wood on a fire, it just feeds the fire endlessly. But a fire is a very good example here, because the primary direction, if you like, for a fire is to burn itself out, to extinguish itself. There are no exceptions to that.

Any fire once created will burn itself out and become extinct. And it’s the same with our anxiety. If we stop feeding it through identification and through reactivity in general, where we become lost in reactive thoughts that feed it.

If we stop that process then the anxiety will have no choice but to subside, diminish and eventually extinguish itself just like the fire. So this is what’s called the healing effects or liberating effect of mindfulness training. Just through the very process of cultivating and training yourself to remain as the Observer you will facilitate transformation and healing and freedom from anxiety.

As we developed more equanimity we can then start to respond with even stronger mindfulness methods. And this is really the response of compassion.

Compassion is an integral part of mindfulness. Mindfulness is not just awareness, it’s awareness combined with compassion, with this inner natural innate state that we have of responding to suffering when we see suffering.

Whether it’s external or internal we have a natural capacity to respond with compassion, to help that entity heal. So as we begin to develop more equanimity we also begin to awaken compassion internally and this compassion greatly accelerates the healing process.

Develop inner compassion to accelerate healing

So we start to develop compassion towards our anxiety. We start to see that anxiety very much in the same way that you might see a child that was in pain or a hurt animal. You already know how to respond to suffering externally; we have to learn how to do this internally, and that is a primary focus of mindfulness training and mindfulness meditation.

Meditation simply means that we choose to direct our conscious awareness and our compassion towards the mind. That is the central principle of mindfulness meditation. Meditation on the mind to facilitate healing and well-being.

So if you would like to learn more about the mindfulness-based approach to overcoming your agoraphobia, then please reach out to me by email.

Let’s schedule a session. All sessions are done via Skype. You must have some kind of video interface so that you can see each other. That’s essential really for good communication. But if you have Skype or Face Time or similar platform then therapy by Skype is just isn’t as effective as meeting in person. There’s no difference.

So if you’d like to get started with me and learn how to overcome your agoraphobia from home using mindfulness therapy then please contact me. Thank you.

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Online treatment for help with 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

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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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.

Online therapist for anxiety and depression via Skype

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.

Agoraphobia Help Online

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy via Skype for help with anxiety and depression and and addictions and other common psychological and emotional problems, including agoraphobia.

So if you’re looking for online help for agoraphobia and you would like to speak to an online therapist to get the help that you need to overcome agoraphobia, then I invite you to contact me and send me an email to tell me more about yourself and what you’ve tried so far and ask any questions you may have. And if you like, we can schedule a Skype therapy session.

So online therapy is very good and often very necessary if you’re struggling with agoraphobia because it’s so difficult to leave home. I work a lot with homebound agoraphobics, and I help them overcome this very limiting anxiety disorder.

It is entirely possible to break free from agoraphobia. You just have to approach it in the right way, in a strategic and focused way to overcome the anxiety habit.

So, anxiety is best thought of as a habit rather than as a an illness or a disorder. You have to work with that habit consciously. That’s the key ingredient. And so I’ve developed a system based on mindfulness training and Mindfulness Therapy, which is about developing this conscious relationship with your anxiety habits. This is what makes the difference.

The process of recovery from agoraphobia is going to involve exposure therapy, but Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy as opposed to just straight exposure. Sometimes simple a repeated exposures will desensitize you to the anxiety reactions, but often it simply makes it worse because it’s not being done in a strategic way.

So you need to really work at a strategic level, not just repeated exposures, but exposures combined with training, and that’s what I offer in the Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy approach.

So here we will learn how to develop a series of exposure challenges and then train effectively for each explosion challenged on your list.

The way we do that is by developing our skills of mindfulness meditation so that you can learn how to meditate on the anxiety habit, on those habitual anxiety reactions that get triggered and that you can identify in each of your exposure challenges.

So we meditate on each challenge. This means that we play it through in the mind. We imagine doing that challenge before we do the challenge. We play it through the mind. We watch for the anxiety reactions and particularly the reactive thoughts that accompany that anxiety reaction.

Now, the real problem is simply that those reactions are habitual. They simply arise in a conditioned manner without any conscious intervention. But when we are meditating on our anxiety, we are now bringing in that element of conscious choice. Consciousness is extremely important for changing habits.

So we look at those reactive habits and then we start to change our relationship to them in which we strengthen our true identity as an observer, observing the anxiety and observing those thoughts as objects in the mind.

So, we are breaking the habitual pattern of blind reactive identification with the anxiety and its thoughts. This is what really starts to make the difference. This is part of training mindfully with your anxiety.

So we play through the challenge in our mind, we look for the anxiety reactions and then we change our relationship to being the observer so that we don’t just fall into the blind reactive habits.

We can then also develop this internal relationship with our anxiety and our fear by bringing in the element of compassion, that’s also a natural quality of your true self, your observer self, the one that is able to observe the anxiety.

We bring in this quality of friendliness and compassion. In many ways it’s like becoming a parent to our anxiety and seeing the anxiety as a child. And it has many similarities to a child in that it is limited in its conscious awareness.

It’s limited in its resources, it hasn’t learned how to overcome its own suffering. But your true self is like the parent. It knows how to heal and be compassionate towards emotional suffering. It’s quite natural. Isn’t a natural part of your larger self, your higher self, what we call your True Self in mindfulness therapy.

So we bring that true self to the aid of the little self, the anxiety reaction. This internal compassion, learning to develop a compassionate relationship with your anxiety accelerates the rate of healing tremendously.

So the first step is to is to build an internal conscious relationship with the anxiety so you don’t simply fall into the trap of identifying with it and becoming the anxiety. And the second step is to develop this internal compassion.

It is the essence of learning to love yourself, which is so much needed. It’s so central. But rather than talking about that at some abstract level we are learning to do it in a very practical and direct way.

Learning to love yourself is abstract. Learning to love that anxiety reaction is concrete, something we can do. It is an object, it’s like a child. Learning to love is somewhat meaningless, but learning to respond skillfully to a child that is in pain and helping it heal, that’s the direct, real expression of love.

So that’s what we are training to do with our anxiety. And we do this before we do the exposure challenge. So we’re really neutralizing those anxiety reactions ahead of time through this training, this mindful training, which we do before we do each challenge.

Then when you do that, the live challenge, this training will will come into effect and will neutralize that anxiety so it doesn’t arise during the challenge.

If it does arise, then we might want to meditate on that anxiety after the challenge and in the same way we strengthen these internal pathways that heal that anxiety and neutralize it. And then we might repeat that same challenge again.

We keep doing the exposure challenges and training with the anxiety reactions over and over again until we can feel completely free from the anxiety in that particular challenge situation.

Then we move on to the next challenge on our list. And so we very methodically work through our list of exposure challenges, gaining more and more confidence in the process and building that true self, building that identity as your true self that does not react with anxiety, but rather responds in a way that heals anxiety.

So this is the way that we train ourselves out of the anxiety habit.

If you’d like to learn more about the mindfulness approach to healing the agoraphobia, then do please contact me and let’s schedule a Skype therapy session.

Most people see rapid improvements once you start applying these mindfulness techniques that I’ll be teaching you during those Skype sessions.

So if you’re looking for online help for agoraphobia, do please contact me and let’s get started. Thank you.

Agoraphobia Help from Home – Online Therapy via Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist and I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy, which I teach online over Skype.

I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy for anxiety disorders but I also treat depression and PTSD and many other emotional conditions that respond well to Mindfulness Therapy.

In particular, I offer online therapy for people suffering from agoraphobia. So if you’re interested in online therapy for your agoraphobia from home then please email me and ask any questions you may have about this service and I’ll be happy to explain to you how I can help you overcome your agoraphobia using Mindfulness Therapy.

This approach is very effective indeed, especially for anxiety disorders. Basically what we will do during these sessions is we will learn how to work with your anxiety in a very practical and very focused and very strategic way. That’s what makes the difference.

So this begins by establishing a routine of exposure challenges. So these are challenges that you can determine for yourself that you want to use to train yourself out of the anxiety habit, if you like. You want to find a whole range of challenges that you can go through one-by-one and develop more and more confidence and learn how to defuse that anxiety. So that might be as simple as walking to the end of your driveway. Or it could be going into a mall or some challenge like that.

Now the important thing with exposure challenges like this is that you prepare for them well, that you prepare ahead of time. It is not sufficient to just throw yourself into the challenge and hope that you will survive and overcome your anxiety. The chances are you will simply re-traumatize yourself and make that anxiety worse.

But if you train for it well, then the exposure challenges can become very effective indeed. So I call this mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So if you are going to the mall for example, you would sit down and meditate on that scenario. You would play it through in the mind like a movie, watching yourself going to the mall, with all of the particular triggers that are there, and then you look for any anxiety that gets triggered as you play through this scene.

When you find the anxiety you then consciously build a mindfulness-based relationship with that anxiety. And this is based on compassion and friendliness, and really, learning how to comfort that anxiety as if it was like a small child that’s coming to you for comfort after being scared by something.

So we need to learn to approach our emotions in the same way. We need to see them as being visitors, if you like, that get triggered in the mind that really need our help to help them resolve their anxiety.

Technically speaking, you are not anxious; it’s the emotion itself that is anxious. so we learn to see it this way. We built this mindfulness-based relationship with the emotion and we help it basically heal so it can overcome its own anxiety.

Then we can rehearse them further with those triggers and we can imagine being in the mall and not feel any anxiety, because the anxiety has resolved itself. We have given it what it needs to resolve itself by being a friend to the anxiety, if that makes any sense.

So we do this in a very detailed strategic way before we do the challenge. Then we do the challenge and then after the challenge we might do another meditation where we replay the scene again, which will now be fresh and we’ll be even more contextualized, and we look for any anxiety that got triggered and we work with that in the same way.

So in this way we we progressively train the anxiety to resolve itself over and over again until basically it doesn’t arise. So this is what we mean by a strategic approach.

And if you do this in this kind of strategic way you will see results in a very short time. And most people see quite significant improvements after the first three to four sessions of this mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So if you would like to learn more, please go to my website and then contact me by email to schedule a Skype therapy session in which I will go through this process in great detail and help you learn how to build an exposure challenge routine and how to meditate on your anxiety yourself so that you can do this via self between sessions. So if you would like to learn more please email me. Thank you.

Go to my Contact Page to learn how to schedule online therapy via Skype for effective help in overcoming agoraphobia

Get help for agoraphobia from home

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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