Online Mindfulness Therapy for Addiction

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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado and I offer online therapy for the treatment of addiction, as well as for working with anxiety and depression and many of the other underlying causes of addiction, and I offer online therapy over Skype, which makes it very convenient for most people who are struggling with addiction and looking for a way of managing their addiction, of helping to heal the underlying causes of addiction.

So that is one of the first things to really understand, is that addiction is simply a form of reaction, a behavioral reaction, to unhealed emotional pain. It could be anxiety. It could be depression, that’s very common. It could be shame. It could be self hatred. It could be a whole range of persistent chronic underlying emotions that are unresolved and that continue to create emotional suffering.

Then the addiction becomes essentially a way of trying to escape this inner pain, and this is very common, especially with alcohol addiction. That’s the most common form of addiction that I work with. People become alcoholics because they are trying to escape emotional pain and they don’t know how to heal this internally, through psychological means, they become a prisoner of their emotional suffering.

So the key to healing from addiction is to find those underlying emotions that are providing the the fuel for the addictive behavior. And that is very much the focus of Mindfulness Therapy, which is the system that I have developed for working with addiction.

It’s a way of fundamentally changing your relationship to your emotions and also beliefs and thought processes and other internal mental processes that feed those underlying core emotions.

So we do this by learning how to meditate on our emotions. We find that emotional suffering and then instead of ignoring it or trying to dull the pain with alcohol or other substances, we instead try to develop a conscious relationship with those emotions based on mindfulness.

So mindfulness is simply a form of training in conscious awareness where you’re learning how to be present with your emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them, without becoming identified with them, without becoming a prisoner of those emotional reactions.

It is a way of looking at your emotions and seeing them as objects in the mind instead of just becoming those emotions. So, mindfulness training and Mindfulness Therapy is designed to teach you how to meditate on your emotions to develop what we call “objective consciousness,” the ability to see those emotions as objects. And this is central because if you can’t see them consciously, if you don’t have a conscious relationship with your emotions, then they will run the show. They will dictate your emotional well-being and they will feed the addiction.

So we deliberately find those emotions and meditate on them to develop this objective consciousness that’s so important in the recovery process.

We then learn how to interact with those emotions that we now have a conscious relationship with and we learn how to interact with them through the process of developing inner compassion. This is what is usually very much missing when people become addicted. They basically hate themselves. They do not like their emotions, their thoughts, feelings. Anything that arises in the mind they react to with extreme aversion. They may feel tremendous guilt or shame, as well. That’s a very common kind of emotional reaction to the inner pain, whatever it might be.

So we have to learn how to see all of these reactions and develop objective consciousness, mindfulness, towards all of them. We have to learn how to invite them into the mind and develop a friendly but conscious relationship with them. That’s the only way you can break free from their influence.

You have to make friends with them. You have to learn how to sit with your emotional pain. That’s the required condition for healing. So that’s the central focus of Mindfulness Therapy, and the best way to do that is to deliberately meditate on your emotions.

Abstinence is not a solution for alcoholism. Willpower is not a solution. These are simply forms of reactivity in themselves that avoid that underlying pain. The only thing that will heal you and lead to your full recovery is when you can completely embrace those emotions and help them heal. When they have healed, then you will have taken away the fuel source that’s driving the addiction.

So that’s what I will teach you during these online therapy sessions together. And this approach is very effective. It works extremely well as long as you are committed to making a change, and that’s very important. You have to be committed and you have to start meditating regularly every day on your emotions.

So here we are using meditation in a very different sense than is usually taught. Most people think of meditation as an escape from the mind, of developing a pleasant or blissful state of consciousness as an alternative to our emotional pain. In my opinion, that is not an effective way to work with emotional suffering. You have to meditate on the suffering itself and help it heal. And that’s how I teach mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation, I define as meditating on the mind in order to achieve freedom and to promote healing and well-being.

So if you would like to schedule some online therapy sessions with me to work on your addiction and to learn how to apply mindfulness and mindfulness meditation to heal your addiction, then please reach out to me.

Go to my Contact Page and email me and tell me more about yourself. Tell me what you’ve tried so far. And if you’d like to schedule a Skype Therapy session with me, then please tell me what days and times work for you and then we can go ahead and schedule a Skype Therapy session.

This process of Mindfulness Therapy is very effective for addiction recovery. Most people start to see significant improvements within the first three or four sessions.

So please contact me if you would like help in overcoming your addiction. Thank you.

Does this interest you? Send me an email now. Tell me about yourself and how I can help you. Schedule a trial session via Skype now.

Addiction Counseling Online

In order to fully recover from alcohol addiction or any other addiction you will need to heal the emotions that drive the addiction. During these online therapy sessions we will focus on the two classes of emotions that need to change: the addictive compulsions and the underlying core emotions such as anxiety, depression or low self-esteem, that fuel the addictive cravings.

We need to transform and neutralize both the compulsive impulses of an addiction and the underlying unresolved core emotions that feed those impulses

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional online therapist. I offer online counseling via Skype for help with a range of emotional problems, anxiety, depression and emotional stress, and also for addictions.

The method that I use is called Mindfulness therapy, which is particularly effective for working with the difficult and powerful emotions that underlie most addictions. During these online therapy sessions, we focus on the two kinds of emotions that dominate most addictions, and especially alcohol addiction, and that is the compulsive-craving emotions themselves, and the underlying core emotions that fuel those addictive cravings. We must address both of these kind of classes of emotions if you are to fully recover and to prevent relapse.

So, mindfulness is very good for this purpose. It allows you to essentially form a stable relationship with your emotions in which you can learn how to experience the compulsion or the underlying core emotions without becoming overwhelmed.

The biggest problem we find is this habitual tendency to identify with our emotions. When we identify with them we become entrap by those emotions and then we become reactive and more or less lose control. So, mindfulness teaches us how to maintain balance in the face of these very emotions.

When you learn how to do that then you begin to gain greater freedom from the emotions themselves, and if you can prevent yourself from becoming reactive towards these emotions or becoming identified with them, then that allows the emotions to begin to begin to change, to begin to transform and heal, and this is of course necessary for the recovery from addiction.

If you would like to learn more about Mindfulness Therapy for your addiction, or for your recovery from your alcohol addiction, please contact me and we can schedule a Skype therapy session.

Not everyone is comfortable with group meetings or 12-Step programs; many would prefer to manage their addiction online with the help of an online therapist. Also, residential programs are frequently very expensive and require a major commitment of time, sometimes months, before returning to the community.

The success rate of many of these programs is also not as high as one might like or expect. There are now a growing number of studies showing that Online Addiction Counseling can be very effective.

Online Counseling for Addictions – Mindfulness Therapy for Addiction Recovery
Online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype is a very convenient and highly effective way of healing the underlying core emotions that fuel your addiction. I work with substance addictions, alcohol addiction, food addictions and bulimia, and all other forms of obsessive compulsive disorders and I have had great success with this Online Counseling Service for Addictions.

Online Therapist for Addiction via Skype

Many people do not like the 12-Step approach to addiction recovery and would prefer a different approach that focuses on changing the underlying emotions that fuel the addiction.

Also, many people are not comfortable with a group therapy approach. There is often shame around addiction and people prefer an individualized approach where they can work one-on-one with a therapist. The choice of Online Therapy for Addictions can be far less intimidating and will likely be a very good addition to your progress with addiction recovery.

There is also a lot of interest in mindfulness-based therapies, which really are good at helping you work in a positive way with your emotions so that you can gain more control and balance in your life.

Mindfulness teaches you how to work with the compulsive impulses of an addiction so that they don’t get the upper hand. This is a central focus in Online Addiction Counseling. However, to fully recover from an addiction, you must also treat the underlying depression, guilt, stress or low self-esteem that lies at the core of your addiction. Many people feel a great sense of emptiness at the core of their being that they are trying to fill through the addictive high.

But, of course, this temporary fix does nothing to heal the underlying pain. During Online Treatment for Addictions, we use mindfulness to transform and heal these core emotions.

Managing Addictions

At the end of the day, you will need to learn how to manage and defuse two types of emotion: The compulsive impulses to indulge, and the underlying core emotions that feed these addictions. This is where Online Mindfulness Therapy can be very effective – in helping you get on top of those powerful driving emotions before they get on top of you.

The first stage of learning how to manage these emotions is by changing your relationship to them. Our habit is to react and become the emotion. The emotion then takes hold and dictates our thinking (cognitive reactivity), our emotions (emotional reactivity), our behaviors (behavioral reactivity) and will also produce changes in the body (somatic reactivity) that can be very harmful if left untreated. So-called stress disorders are a very common feature of chronic addiction as is depression, anxiety and compulsive behaviors.

Mindfulness-based Counseling for Addictions

Mindfulness is a very special form of awareness that is fundamentally non-reactive in nature and expressly positive in outlook (not judgmental or based on aversion). Through training during the online Skype Therapy sessions, you will learn how to develop mindfulness and how to apply it to your impulse-emotions and your core emotions so that you naturally begin to break free from the patterns of habitual reactivity that feed the addiction.

It is hard at first because the habit is so strong, but with practice you will begin to break free from the grip of your emotions, which then makes it possible to bring about healing of the core emotions that fuel the whole process.

Abstinence is not sustainable

If you pursue the path of total abstinence, you will avoid many of the issues associated with substance abuse, of course, but if you do not change the underlying emotional compulsion then you will forever be a victim and remain vulnerable to your addiction and the chances of a relapse will be very high.

During the mindfulness-based approach to addictions, you will actually be encouraged to meditate on a glass of whiskey or wine, or whatever, so that you can practice processing the addictive impulses that arise. You have to face these impulses directly if you want to break free from their grip, but mindfulness therapy gives you very effective tools for doing this successfully, rather than just an act of will-power, which is seldom sufficient to neutralize a habit.

With practice, the power of those impulses to control you will subside, and the less you indulge those impulses, the less you feed them, the weaker they become. It is totally possible for an addict to sit with a bottle and not be compelled to abuse the contents. In fact, the final step of the process of mindfulness-based addiction recovery will involve being able to take a drink, and know when enough is enough. Moderation is the goal rather than abstinence.

The Mindfulness Therapy approach that I teach via Skype sessions is very effective for healing and changing compulsive emotions and underlying anxiety, depression and problems with self-image and self-esteem. Most people see significant improvements after 6-12 sessions, and even after the first 3-4 sessions, you will notice a difference.

If you would like to learn more about online addiction counseling, please contact me and tell me about yourself.

Online Therapy – an alternative to AA and 12-Step group meetings

Many people are ashamed of their alcohol addiction and would rather not join a group where they have to share their deepest and most painful secrets in front of others. This is why many addicts prefer some form of online counseling so they can work on their problem at home.

Group therapy can be very helpful, of course, for many reasons such as realizing that you are really not alone. Being able to share your experiences with someone who has the same issues is also very helpful.

Most people do not really understand what it is like to be an addict, so talking with another addict can be helpful indeed. However, not everyone is comfortable with sharing their emotional suffering in public. Also, it may be extremely difficult to find the words to properly describe what you are feeling. For some, group sessions are just too intimidating and frustrating.

The other issue, is that although talking about your feelings is generally very helpful, providing someone is really listening, it is not necessarily enough, in fact seldom enough, to heal the underlying cause of your alcohol addiction or other form of addictive behavior.

What is it that drives your addiction? What are the underlying core emotions? Guilt? Self-hate? Depression? These have to be healed if you wish to break free from your addictions.

Heal the Underlying Core Emotions that fuel Your Addiction

During Online Mindfulness Therapy sessions via Skype, we work together to help you discover the underlying emotions that are driving your addictions and heal them through cultivating a deep relationship with those emotions based on mindfulness and compassion. This approach really works; just as resistance and avoidance does not.

It takes work to overcome an addiction, but Mindfulness Therapy gives you the tools to overcome the compulsive impulses and cravings. It is a great advance on conventional talk therapy because it works on the underlying process that fuels addiction; just talking about your feelings is seldom sufficient to effect a lasting recovery.

Would you like to Schedule a Skype Session of Online Counseling for Help in the Recovery from your Addiction?

I now provide an Online Therapy Service to help people work through difficult emotional habits and addictions. Mindfulness Therapy Online is definitely worth considering and I invite you to contact me to learn more. It is easy to get started. Simply email and ask your questions and, when you are ready, you can schedule a session.

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Online Treatment for Addiction via Skype

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy for anxiety, depression, PTSD and also addictions. Many people like the idea of online treatment for addiction by Skype because it’s more private for you. It means that you can have your sessions from home. You don’t have to travel to the therapist’s office and you can work in a more private and intimate way on your addiction.

The other reason that people like online therapy for work with their addiction is because often people feel a lot of shame and guilt around addiction. And it’s again difficult to get the motivation to go and see a therapist or counselor in their office.

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The approach that I use for treating addiction is based on helping you change the underlying psychological emotional habits that cause your addiction. Mostly I work with addiction to alcohol but there are many other forms of addiction.

The one thing they all have in common is that they are based on an underlying emotional reactivity, some form of unresolved painful emotion that is not healing, basically, and that fuels the addictive process, usually as a way of escaping that emotional pain.

So during the online sessions I will be teaching you how to apply mindfulness, specifically, for working with these unresolved emotions to help you bring about their resolution, to heal those emotions. And we do this at two levels.

One of which is that we learn to work with the emotional reactivity in the form of those addictive impulses, those compulsive impulses themselves. So we have learned how to manage those. Because if you don’t if you become a slave to those emotional impulses to drink or over eat, or whatever it might be, then that behavioral reactivity will reinforce that underlying core emotion that’s causing the addiction in the first place.

So we have to learn to manage the impulses and the second thing we do is work on the underlying core emotion, the depression, the shame, the guilt, the stress whatever it might be. The emotional trauma, whatever it might be that’s fueling the addiction.

So we do this by learning to meditate on our mind. You learn to meditate on those emotional reactions. The two types the core emotion, of course, but also the impulses, the addictive impulses.

We will deliberately bring those into the mind so that we can begin to change our relationship to them so that we break this habit of becoming a slave to those emotional habitual reactions. This is the most important thing that will promote healing.

If we stop feeding the reactivity then you allow those emotions to continue their process of healing.

So there are a variety of techniques we use, but the most important one is meditation on your emotions.

We do not meditate to escape our emotions, which is often taught, but this is something that I fundamentally disagree with. We meditate on our emotional pain, itself, in order to facilitate healing. That is what needs our attention.

So we begin to see that emotional pain very much in the same way that we might see a child in pain. We don’t avoid the child’s pain. We go and take care of it. We learn how to establish a conscious and friendly relationship with that child because that is what will promote its healing and we must do the same thing with our own emotions.

And that is the focus of the mindfulness approach approach. There are lots of other details in this approach that explain why the mindfulness approach to working with emotions and working with addiction is so effective. I will teach you these during each of our sessions.

The main factor that you need to have is motivation. You need to be committed to changing and healing this underlying emotional reactivity. If you are committed, then you will see substantial improvements.

\You will be able to break the habit of your addiction. It may take several sessions to do this but that is a function of how committed you are, how well you understand how to apply mindfulness and meditation to work on your addiction and the underlying emotions, and how much you practice.

So if this is something that you’re interested in pursuing and you feel ready for this work then I invite you to email me, contact me and let’s schedule a session so you can see for yourself if this approach is going to work for you.

It certainly has helped a great number of people over the last 10 or so years that I’ve been offering online mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety, depression and also for the treatment of addictions. So please reach out to me. Ask any questions you may have and let’s get started. Thank you.

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Mindfulness-based Addiction Counseling

Welcome, my name is Peter Strong, and I am an online psychotherapist, teacher, and author. My specialty is Mindfulness Therapy, a very interesting and very powerful and quite unique approach to working with all forms of emotional suffering, whether it be anxiety, depression, stress, or addictions, including alcohol addiction.

Now, I’ll give you a little overview of what mindfulness therapy is and also why do mindfulness therapy online. People are using the Internet more and more now to seek the help that they are looking for, for managing emotional problems.

Using the interface of Skype, it’s possible to have one on one sessions with your therapist or teacher, and it’s really just as effective as being in an office with a therapist. The prime advantage of online therapy is mostly convenience. It’s easier to schedule in a busy work day or when you have children to deal with at home. So convenience is a big factor.

Secondly, it’s easier to get access to a therapist, for example, if you’re living abroad or if you are living in a rural community where the options are limited, then an online therapist can be your best solution. And, as I say, for many people, it’s just so difficult to leave home.

Another advantage of online therapy is the anonymity factor. Many people who are struggling with emotional problems and particularly with addictions is that they feel quite embarrassed about their addiction or anxiety or depression. They don’t feel they can talk to anyone locally. It’s something that they don’t necessarily want to share in a group, either.

Although group therapy is very useful and definitely recommended, because you can meet other people who are sharing the same problems that you are facing, so you have a commonality there that can be very, very beneficial.

But nevertheless, when it comes to that personal work where you have to try and resolve the underlying emotional issues that you’re struggling with in your addiction, then perhaps the group format is not quite what you need. You need something more. You need to work with a therapist.

Now, the style of therapy that I offer, mindfulness therapy, is very different than traditional talk therapy. It’s not about talking about your emotions and trying to understand them and analyze them, and review your childhood and the history, and so on. No, this is quite different.

Basically, it’s about learning how to form a relationship with your underlying core emotions, the emotions that are driving your addiction.
What is it that makes you go to such extreme lengths to get that next hit of alcohol or substance abuse, or what is it that drives you to go out shopping yet again, or to go back to work to do just a bit more work? Work addiction is quite a big problem that goes unrecognized. And, of course, another huge area is eating disorders, binge eating.

These are all attempts at trying to fulfill an underlying need, but as you know, that need can never be fully met by seeking an external solution. You get a slight moment, a slight hit of happiness, but it’s so fleeting, and then it’s gone, and then you’re left with that emptiness again, and your desperate attempt to try and fill it again.

In mindfulness therapy, we work at two levels, really. First of all is managing the compulsive emotion itself, that terrible need in us, that yearning that drives you to your addictive behavior.

That’s one thing, one level, but the other level is, what are the underlying core emotions that are driving the addiction? That sense of emptiness, sense of guilt, sense of unworthiness, whatever it may be. That sense of meaninglessness, that dead feeling inside. This is what I work with using mindfulness therapy.

And mindfulness is simply a very advanced form of awareness, originally taught by the Buddha over 2000 years ago, that allows you to really, really develop a relationship, the kind of bond of friendship, with your inner pain, the things that are driving your addiction.

You have to learn to make friends with it, because if you don’t, you will never heal. If you fight it, you make it worse. If you ignore it, it persists. The only option left is to make friends with it, and this is different than acceptance. It’s not about just saying, oh, there’s nothing I can do with it, I have to accept it. No. This is about establishing a real friendship with the thing that you hate most. It’s in that relationship that the real transformation that leads to freedom from addiction and freedom and resolution of that underlying neediness and pain, that’s where it really happens.

So that’s just a short introduction to this subject. If you’d like to learn more, please contact me through the website. Send an email to me, and let’s discuss this further and see if online counseling, online therapy through Skype, is appropriate for you. Thank you. I look forward to meeting you.

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Addiction Recovery through Mindfulness Therapy via Skype

The main lesson here is that addiction is a form of escape from inner emotional pain. You need to heal that inner pain to fully recover from an addiction.

The more familiar form of talking therapy can be a great help, but what most people find is that talking about your feelings does not transform the cognitive reactivity that reinforces your anxiety and depression or other painful emotions that lie at the heart of your addiction.

The same can be said for prescription medications – medication may provide a temporary relief from anxiety and depression symptoms for a while, but medications are not effective for changing the underlying psychological habit that causes the emotional pain. You need a psychological approach to heal psychological pain.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I am a professional psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy, which I teach over Skype for working with emotional problems and also addictions. So if you’re interested in online therapy to help you overcome your addiction and to recover from addiction, then please go to my website and learn more about the Mindfulness Therapy approach that I have developed and schedule a session with me over Skype.

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So for most people suffering from substance abuse and particularly alcohol addiction, which is what I mostly work with, there are always underlying emotions that are fueling that addiction. There is inner psychological pain that is the root cause of the addiction. People use alcohol to try and escape their addiction. This is the most common situation that I find. There is underlying depression, low self-esteem, sometimes tremendous stress and very often some form of emotional trauma that is fueling the addiction. So to recover fully, you have to heal that underlying emotional suffering and that is the focus of Mindfulness Therapy. It’s a way of working with your emotions very directly, quite different than just talking about your feelings.

So talk therapy has a place, but it’s seldom really able to heal the underlying psychological trauma or emotional pain directly. It is too indirect in its approach. So we learn to work directly with emotions. And the first thing we have to do is really learn how to develop a conscious and non-reactive relationship with our emotions We have to see the pain without becoming overwhelmed by it, without becoming identified with it, without becoming reactive.

Addiction is simply a way of trying to escape this emotional pain. It’s an avoidance reaction. In my system, it’s defined as a form of behavioral reactivity; it’s a way of trying to escape that emotional pain. And that’s quite understandable, but it’s not going to work. That’s the problem with any form of avoidance. It simply prolongs the problem.

And the same goes for many medications too, for treating depression or anxiety. They really are not addressing the underlying problem. They’re just a form of avoidance.

In Mindfulness Therapy, there is no avoidance whatsoever. We focus very directly on our emotions. We learn how to sit with our emotions without becoming reactive, without becoming overwhelmed. That process we call reactivity is habitual in nature, it is simply because we are not conscious. We become victims of our emotional, reactive habits. That’s the problem, much more than the actual emotion itself.

So overcoming that blind reactivity and identification is an essential part of healing, and that’s a primary focus and Mindfulness Therapy.

And the way we go about doing this and establishing some freedom from our emotional reactions by meditating on those emotional reactions. It is no good whatsoever to meditate on the breath or some other object in order to try and escape your emotional pain. That is an improper use of meditation.

Meditation should be for the purpose of promoting healing in the mind. And that’s what I teach. That’s the approach that I teach. It’s quite different than conventional meditation, which is usually trying to escape the mind in some way.

We are not trying to escape the mind in the meditation that I teach; we are trying to heal the mind. Therefore, you have to meditate on your emotions, on your thoughts and on your beliefs and on your traumatic memories and anything else that is inhibiting your natural state of well-being, that is holding you back from living fully, that is impacting your happiness.

So in the mindful approach to addiction recovery, we learned to meditate on the underlying emotions that are fueling the addiction.

We also work with the emotional impulses of the addiction itself. So, for example, to do this effectively, we would actually challenge ourselves to work with the addiction. In the case of alcohol, we do not advocate abstinence or some kind of complete avoidance of alcohol. That is again, simply avoiding the problem, the underlying unresolved emotional problems that are fueling that alcohol addiction.

So we might meditate with a glass of wine in front of us. We want to do that in order to get access to the impulses so we can work with them, but also those underlying emotions, the underlying inner dialog that says drink that alcohol and make it all better.

The desire to escape is very strong. If we want to break free from that desire to escape, then we need to meditate on that desire to escape. There is no other way of breaking free from that internal emotional reactivity and there’s no other way to heal it other than to meditate on it and bring full non-reactive awareness to that emotion.

We also need to develop a compassionate relationship to our internal emotions. That’s what that emotional pain underneath the addiction needs more than anything. It needs your complete presence. It needs you to be present for that emotion with mindfulness, which is this very high quality consciousness that has these features of compassion and friendliness and kindness and non-reactivity. These are what promote healing. This is well tested. This is not speculation. This is fact. Those qualities, when developed internally, promote healing. Mindfulness promotes healing.

Don’t worry. I will teach you how to do this

So I will teach you how to do this in our sessions together. It takes a little training, but once you start taking this direct approach to healing your addiction, you will see results much faster than just talking about your feelings or trying to avoid them or suppress them or other escape behaviors, that simply is not going to work. You have to work directly on healing the problem underneath.

So if you’d like to schedule some sessions with me, then please contact me via my website. Send me an email. Tell me about your specific needs and we can schedule a session.

I expect everyone that I work with to see substantial improvements after the first three or four sessions. Psychotherapy should not be open ended; it should have very tangible goals in mind. So if you’d like to start with me, then please send me an email and let’s get started on your recovery process.

Online Psychotherapist for Addiction via Skype

Talk to a Therapist Online via Skype for highly effective online therapy for Addictions, including alcohol addiction caused by depression and other forms of emotional stress, including PTSD and Traumatic Stress.

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IN ORDER TO FULLY RECOVER YOU HAVE TO HEAL THE UNDERLYING UNRESOLVED EMOTIONS THAT FEED YOUR ADDICTION

MINDFULNESS THERAPY IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE APPROACHES FOR PROMOTING RECOVERY AND HEALING

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Online Therapist for Help with Recovery from Addiction

The method that I use is called Mindfulness therapy, which is particularly effective for working with the difficult and powerful emotions that underlie most addictions.

During these online therapy sessions, we focus on the two kinds of emotions that dominate most addictions, and especially alcohol addiction, and that is the compulsive-craving emotions themselves, and the underlying core emotions that fuel those addictive cravings.

We must address both of these kind of classes of emotions if you are to fully recover and to prevent relapse.

If you would like to learn more about Mindfulness Therapy for your addiction, or for your recovery from your alcohol addiction, please contact me and we can schedule a Skype therapy session.
Thank you!

Addiction Counseling Online

Online Therapist for Addictions via Skype

Online Counseling for Addictions – Mindfulness Therapy for Addiction Recovery

Online Mindfulness Therapy via Skype is a very convenient and highly effective way of healing the underlying core emotions that fuel your addiction.

I work with substance addictions, alcohol addiction, food addictions and bulimia, and all other forms of obsessive compulsive disorders and I have had great success with this Online Counseling Service for Addictions.

Many people do not like the 12-Step approach to addiction recovery and would prefer a different approach that focuses on changing the underlying emotions that fuel the addiction.

For most people online therapy is far less intimidating and will likely be a very good addition to your progress with addiction recovery.

Mindfulness teaches you how to work with the compulsive impulses of an addiction so that they don’t get the upper hand. This is a central focus in Online Addiction Counseling.

However, to fully recover from an addiction, you must also treat the underlying depression, guilt, stress or low self-esteem that lies at the core of your addiction.

Many people feel a great sense of emptiness at the core of their being that they are trying to fill through the addictive high. But, of course, this temporary fix does nothing to heal the underlying pain.

During online treatment for addiction, we use mindfulness to transform and heal these core emotions. I will guide you and teach you in great detail how to apply mindfulness and meditation for promoting healing. This approach is well-tested and most people see significant improvements after 3-4 sessions with me.

Talk to a psychotherapist online for help with addiction

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I am a professional psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy, which is particularly effective for treating addictions.

If you would like to talk to a psychotherapist online for help with addiction, then please go to my website and learn more about mindfulness therapy and how it can help you.

Please e-mail me and ask any questions you may have about the mindfulness approach. It is very effective and most people see it’s quite substantial improvements after the first three or four sessions.

Mindfulness therapy is very effective because it works directly on helping you change those habitual emotions that fuel addiction, whether it’s depression or stress or anxiety or or any other emotion.

The primary problem is that that emotional energy feeds the compulsive impulses of the addiction. You have to change those underlying emotions in order to overcome addiction effectively.

Mindfulness is extremely good at doing this because it teaches you how to build a conscious relationship with your emotions. The real problem is that we fall into patterns of avoidance and aversion.

We don’t like painful emotions, we try to get away from them. But in so doing you inadvertently feed those emotions and you prevent them from healing. It’s essential to develop a conscious and also friendly relationship with your emotions if they are to heal.

I will teach you how to essentially meditate on your emotions: on the anxiety, the depression, the stress, whatever it might be. I will teach you how to develop and cultivate this mindfulness relationship with your emotions that will promote healing. You can practice this between sessions yourself.

This is a life skill that I teach and it is, as I have said, very effective and probably the most direct approach there is to healing emotional suffering and for recovering from the various forms of behavioral reactivity such as addictions.

Please contact me to learn more about mindfulness therapy for addictions and talk to a therapist online for help with your addiction.

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Speak with an online therapist for help with addiction

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

So if you’d like to speak with a therapist online for addiction to learn methods of working with the underlying emotions that are fueling your addiction, then please go to my website and learn more about the mindfulness therapy approach for treating addictions and feel free to e-mail me with any questions you may have.

The mindfulness approach is extremely effective and it’s quite different than traditional talking therapy because it gives you very practical mindfulness-based tools for working with the underlying emotions and also with the compulsion itself that is causing your addiction.

Most people see quite dramatic changes after working with me for several sessions online. It’s a much faster approach than traditional talk therapy because it’s very practical and very focused on the key cause of addiction which is the underlying emotions, whether that is depression or some form of emotional stress or trauma or low self-esteem or problems with shame or guilt.

Whatever the emotion is, mindfulness therapy is very effective for effectively healing these emotions, neutralizing them, so that they don’t catalyze behavioral reactivity such as addiction.

If you’d like to learn more, please go to my website and email me to schedule a therapy session via Skype for your addiction. Thank you.

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Talk to an Online Therapist via Skype for Help with Recovery from an Addiction

If you’d like to talk to an online therapist for addiction or any other form of emotional problems that are affecting the quality of your life then I invite you to go to my website and learn more about this online therapy service that I offer via Skype.

Many people like the online therapy option for working with addictions because there’s a greater sense of privacy for you. You can have your therapy sessions at home rather than traveling to a therapist office.

So it’s very convenient but also less intimidating than going to see a therapist in their office. And I consider this to be very important especially when working with difficult emotions and addiction, which often brings up a lot of shame and guilt.

It is very important that you feel very comfortable with your therapy process and the therapist that you’re working with. You don’t want anything to get in the way of developing more sense of empowerment to manage the emotional reactivity that is causing your addiction.

So during these online therapy sessions I will teach you specifically, mindfulness-based methods for working with addictions, for working with the underlying emotions that are fueling the addiction. That is typically some form of depression or some form of self-hatred or low self-esteem.

It could be in many, many different forms of emotion that are responsible for your addiction, but you can be quite certain that underneath your addiction there are core emotions that are fueling it.

And that’s what we work on with mindfulness therapy. This is very different than traditional counseling or talk therapy. It is very much about learning tools to change the relationship you have with those core emotions, because that is central.

You have to learn how to really develop a conscious and actually a friendly relationship with your inner emotions in order to help them change and help them heal. And this is a central theme and in mindfulness therapy – learning to make friends with your own emotional pain.

Quite frankly, unless you do that you will never get over your addiction because no amount of going to rehabilitation centers or willpower or some program that tries to persuade you not to drink, that tries to teach you how to avoid alcohol or the other substances that you may be addicted to.

Those kind of approaches really don’t work because they leave you vulnerable to those underlying core emotions that trigger the addiction. People turn to substance abuse because they are trying to escape from their inner pain.

So if you’d like to work with me on freeing yourself from the underlying emotional pain that is causing your substance abuse or other addiction, do please go to my website and then simply e-mail me and we can schedule a Skype Therapy session at a time that works for you.

See an online psychotherapist for help with addiction recovery

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I’m a professional online psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness therapy for the treatment of anxiety, depression and also addictions.

If you’d like to see an online therapist for help with addiction please do consider going to my website and learn more about the online therapy options for treating addiction.

I specialize in mindfulness therapy, which is perhaps one of the most effective ways of helping you overcome the underlying emotional problems that are causing your addiction in the first place.

Whether that underlying unresolved emotion is depression or extreme stress or low self-esteem or emotional trauma, whatever it might be, every addiction is fueled by underlying core emotions of some form and in order to fully recover from addiction you have to address these underlying core emotions.

Mindfulness Therapy is just very, very effective at doing this and most of my clients see quite dramatic changes within three to four sessions of mindfulness therapy online over Skype.

We use Skype so that we can see each other, which is necessary for effective communication, and for most people, Skype therapy is just as effective as meeting in person.

Most people really like online therapy because it is so much less intimidating. It is often very difficult to talk about your addiction and especially about the emotional pain underneath.

Therapy via Skype overcomes this barrier, and making psychotherapy more accessible has always been one of my objectives.

So the mindfulness approach is one of teaching you how to change the relationship that you have with your emotions and with your compulsions. It basically allows you to break free from those emotions so that you are not so easily sucked into the emotion and overwhelmed by it.

The problem that prevents healing is the inner emotional and cognitive reactivity and especially reactive identification, which causes you to become completely consumed and overwhelmed by your inner pain.

Addiction is a futile and destructive way of trying to escape from this inner emotional suffering. It is quite understandable when you don’t have the tools necessary for working with your emotions, but there are solutions available.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches you very practical ways of working with addiction and painful emotions in general, that you can apply yourself between sessions and this is why people get faster results with mindfulness therapy than is perhaps typical for traditional talk therapy.

I will teach you how to promote healing and recovery using the methods I have developed in mindfulness therapy.

Conventional counseling can be helpful, but what most people find is that common talk therapy does not transform the reactive psychological habits that feeds your emotional suffering.

This also applies to the use of prescription meds. – antidepressants may provide reduce anxiety and depression symptoms for a while, but medications are not effective for transforming the underlying psychological process that causes the emotional suffering.

What makes this approach so powerful is sustained training. Through mindfulness training you develop more and more freedom from the negative emotions. You are, in effect training your unresolved emotions how to resolve themselves.

So if you would like to learn more about seeing an online therapist for help with addiction, including alcohol addiction, please go to my website and send me an email and we can schedule a therapy session via Skype and you will see for yourself just how effective this mindfulness approach can be.

This online psychotherapy service is available world-wide, including the USA, UK and Europe. All you need is a reliable internet connection and you can start Skype therapy with me.

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You should expect to see significant improvements after 3-4 sessions

Talk to a Therapist via Skype for Effective Mindfulness-based Addiction Counseling