Online Psychotherapy for OCD

Online Help for OCD

Online Mindfulness Psychotherapist over Skype for Managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Intrusive Overthinking without relying on drugs.

Online therapy can be very effective, providing you use Skype or Zoom so that we can see each other, which is essential for effective communication and psychotherapy.

Mindfulness Therapy provides an excellent treatment option for managing obsessive-intrusive thoughts and addictive behaviors by teaching you how to work with your OCD thoughts and compulsions using mindfulness training and the techniques of Mindfulness Therapy.

To break free from OCD and obsessive-intrusive thoughts you MUST learn how to neutralize the underlying anxiety, that fuels obsessive-intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.

This is the primary focus of Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy for overcoming OCD and is what I will be teaching you during our online therapy sessions together.

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

“Having visited with many-a-therapist in the past, Dr. Strong stands out as a genuinely good listener and offers pointed and intuitive responses in return, that are real, constructive, and compassionate. His caring, non-judgmental, nature is apparent and has aided me in the healing process.”

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Find Online Psychotherapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

If you are looking for an online therapist for help with OCD, then I invite you to contact me and tell me more about your particular struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder.

I offer online therapy through Skype for the treatment of OCD and also for help in reducing intrusive thoughts, intrusive memories and intrusive imagery, which can be very distressing for many people.

The approach that I use is called Mindfulness Therapy, which is extremely effective for working with reactive thoughts and memories and for reducing the frequency of obsessive, intrusive thoughts as well as reducing their intensity, until they no longer are a problem.

Normal thoughts go through a simple cycle of arising and passing and do so in a relatively short period of time, but OCD thoughts do not resolve but persist and often lead to the proliferation of even more thoughts. This stage of reactive proliferation feeds the underlying emotion, usually fear-based, that fuels OCD.

The key to breaking the cycle of reactive thinking, obsessive compulsive thinking, is to develop a different relationship to those intrusive thoughts or memories or images. We have to develop a mindfulness-based relationship, which means that it’s a relationship based on opening to the experience and staying present with the experience of the thought or the image as an observer, we have to learn to be able to observe the thoughts or image without becoming lost in that intrusive thought. We have to learn to stay present with the obsessive thought, without becoming reactive and converting into some compulsive behavior or action.

The mindfulness approach is one of the most effective approaches available for working with OCD and intrusive thoughts. I will teach you during our Skype therapy sessions together, very precise methods of working with your thoughts using mindfulness that will allow you to develop this objective consciousness that is so essential for breaking the habit of reactive-obsessive thinking.

With the mindfulness approach, most people see dramatic improvements within a very short time, often within three or four sessions.

The mindfulness approach is about teaching you new methods to work practically with your intrusive thoughts, to neutralize them and heal the underlying emotional energy that’s feeding those thoughts.

This cannot be done by just talking about your thoughts or emotions. And it cannot be done through willpower. It has to be done by changing your relationship to your thoughts. And when that relationship is right, then the healing process begins. But you must develop an open, mindful relationship with your thoughts and emotions.

Mindfulness is the combination of openness, non reactivity, friendliness and compassion. These are the qualities that promote healing. Just trying to understand why you are feeling the way you are reacting is not sufficient.

Most people with OCD fall into the habit of avoidance and aversion. They try to block out intrusive thoughts and feelings. This is not effective and will actually reinforce the underlying fear because avoidance and aversion are based on fear, themselves, which will simply feed the underlying emotional suffering that is feeding the intrusive, obsessive thoughts or memories.

We need to learn to develop a different relationship with our emotions if they are to heal. And that’s the central focus of Mindfulness Therapy.

And if you’re interested in working with an online therapist to overcome your OCD, then I invite you to contact me.

Online therapy is an excellent choice and works just as well as in-person therapy, providing you use Skype or Zoom or FaceTime, because you need to see each other for effective communication.

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Online Help for overcoming OCD

Through Mindfulness Therapy we learn how to neutralize obsessive and intrusive thoughts, images and memories as well as learning how to neutralize the compulsive impulses that lead to compulsive behaviors.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression and OCD and other emotional problems using mindfulness therapy and mindfulness-based techniques rather than medications or the conventional talking therapy that you may be familiar with.

Mindfulness Therapy really tries to address the underlying process that causes your anxiety or depression or problem with intrusive thoughts and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Skype Therapy for OCD is one of the services that I offer. All my online therapy is done via Skype. It’s very important that you use Skype or Zoom or FaceTime or similar video platform because it’s important that you can see each other during these sessions. This makes the therapy sessions much more effective.

During the online Skype therapy sessions that I offer I’ll be teaching you how to work with the two primary elements of OCD.

So excessively worrying about that and obsessing over hygiene is one kind of reactive thinking that greatly accentuates the underlying anxiety. The thinking fuels anxiety feeds anxiety and it intensifies the anxiety. So that’s one kind of thinking process.

The other kind of problems that people run into with thinking is intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts, intrusive images, intrusive memories. So this is sometimes called “Pure O” sort of a pure form of obsession that is caused by intrusive thoughts that really upsets the minds and cause considerable anxiety.

So that’s one side of the work. We work with these obsessive or intrusive thoughts. On the other side of OCD is working with the compulsive behaviors.

So the thoughts convert into behaviors like hand washing or trying to clean every surface in the house multiple times over, or whatever it might be. The compulsive behavior is a response to the obsessive thinking.

We would typically imagine the obsessive-compulsive thought or activity, we would play it through in the mind and we would watch to see what kind of emotion is triggered. Typically, fear or anxiety, but it could be other emotions as I say. When we see that emotion we then start to build a relationship with the emotion itself based on consciousness, that’s where the mindfulness comes in.

The second part of our work in mindfulness therapy is to see how those emotions work, to look at their structure. And it’s become very clear to me through working with people over many years now, that the primary structure of the emotions, it is not thoughts, it is imagery.

So the thoughts are products of the emotion, but what causes the emotion is imagery, psychological imagery. The way that you see that fear or anxiety in the mind is what determines its intensity and that in turn leads to the propagation of thoughts and compulsive activities.

We examine this imagery in great detail during mindfulness work on our OCD. We literally meditate on those thoughts and the emotions underneath the thoughts to see how they work, to look at their imagery, to see what it is about the imagery that causes them to be intense, that creates that intense emotional charge.

So if you would like to learn more about how to work with either obsessive thinking or intrusive thoughts, memories and images, and also to work with compulsive behaviors, then please contact me. Let’s schedule an online therapy session via Skype.

Skype Therapy for OCD is a very effective way of learning how to manage OCD. Most people see quite dramatic changes after the first three or four sessions. Once you learn how to apply mindfulness to work with your OCD you’ll see very encouraging results.

If you are interested in Skype Therapy for OCD then please reach out to me. Contact me. Tell me more about your particular situation. Tell me what times and days work for you and then we can go ahead and schedule the first Skype Therapy session to help you overcome your obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Online OCD Therapy via Skype

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I’m a professional psychotherapist and I offer online therapy for anxiety and depression, addictions and also for the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and intrusive thoughts.

So obsessive-compulsive disorder really describes a problem of reactive intrusive thoughts; thoughts that just keep appearing in the mind and that trigger compulsive behaviors.

Now how do we manage these intrusive thoughts? Well there are certain things we must understand. The first is that you cannot remove intrusive thoughts by willpower. If you try to stop those intrusive thoughts you will actually end up making them stronger.

So we must take a different approach, and the approach that I teach involves mindfulness training. So mindfulness therapy teaches you how to change your relationship to those intrusive thoughts from one of fear and anger, which is also fear-based, to one of equanimity, of allowing the thought to be there without reacting to it.

And also friendliness. This is an essential part of mindfulness training. You learn to make friends with those intrusive thoughts, even if they are negative thoughts or painful thoughts.

The most important thing is to develop a non-reactive relationship with those thoughts and that will involve developing a friendliness-based relationship with the thoughts. Friendliness is non-reactive and it is not fear-based. So this will essentially take away the fuel that feeds those intrusive thoughts.

Intrusive thoughts become intrusive because of the emotional charge that they have. It’s not the thought itself that’s the problem, it’s the emotional charge that the thought has, and this is what keeps it coming back.

We need to find a way to defuse that emotional charge, and the first way is not to feed the emotion. So that’s the reason why we focus on developing a friendly non-reactive relationship with those intrusive thoughts and memories also.

And one of the best ways to do this is to look at the imagery of these thoughts and then change that imagery. This imagery is what keeps that emotional charge alive and that’s what keeps the thoughts in an intrusive and repetitive manner in the mind.

But when you bring mindfulness to it you see the imagery clearly and then you can begin to help it change. So this is really helping the thought resolve itself. And when it changes his imagery it loses that emotional charge and then it will disappear.

From my experience with working with people who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder and intrusive memories; thoughts including traumatic memories, I find that this Mindfulness Therapy approach to be the best approach that I have ever explored with people. It Is very, very effective.

So if you’d like to learn more about the mindfulness approach for overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and intrusive thoughts, then please email me.

So medications are often prescribed for OCD to reduce the intensity of the anxiety. But I think you’ll understand that’s just treating the symptoms and not treating the underlying process that creates those intrusive thoughts.

So if you would like to learn more about how to treat OCD without using medications, but through through this mindfulness-based approach, do please contact me.

Most people see quite dramatic changes within a matter of a few weeks once you start applying these mindfulness methods. And this will include meditation, but a different kind of meditation than you may be familiar with.

Because, when I talk about mindfulness meditation I’m talking about meditating on the mind.

So in this case we would actually learn to meditate on those intrusive thoughts. We would deliberately bring them into the mind and start building this non-reactive relationship and start exploring how to change the imagery of those thoughts.

So this is training, active focused training, to help those thoughts resolve themselves and lose their emotional charge so they no longer become a problem.

Generally, when you can do that with thoughts then the compulsive behaviors will also subside because there is nothing that is connected to the behaviors. There’s nothing that can feed the compulsive behaviors.

So if you would like to learn more and you would like to schedule some online therapy sessions with me, then please contact me.

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Online Psychotherapy for treating OCD

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I specialize in Mindfulness Therapy which I teach online through Skype. One particular area that I work a great deal with is obsessive-compulsive disorder.

So at the heart of OCD, of course, there are a selection of intrusive thoughts that have a very high emotional charge and tend to compel you into unwanted, unnecessary and sometimes disturbing behaviors.

So the secret of overcoming OCD is to work with these intrusive thoughts and to neutralize them, to remove that emotional charge so that they no longer feed the compulsive behaviors.

So in Mindfulness Therapy we do this by actually meditating on those thoughts. Now this is quite different than the standard approach to working with intrusive OCD thoughts. Here we are deliberately bringing them into consciousness so that we can change our relationship to those thoughts, so that we no longer become identified with them through the reactive process we call “reactive identification.”

This is quite important because if you don’t break that first step of reactive identification with intrusive thoughts then there’s nothing to really to stop those intrusive thoughts from taking over and creating suffering. So we deliberately meditate on those thoughts. But we’re doing it now on our terms. Doing it consciously. It’s our choice to do this and that makes all the difference.

So the way it works is you make a list of your intrusive thoughts, the ones that compel you to obsessive-compulsive behaviors and then you train with each thought until you have broken that habit of reactive identification.

Basically you bring the thought into your mind and you train to sit with that thought without reacting or identifying with it. So you can hold the thought in the mind without becoming reactive and without falling into the reactive thinking that usually proliferates from the first reactive intrusive thought. You can train out of that habits of reactivity and that’s the first most important step.

The second step in Mindfulness Therapy is neutralizing the emotional charge of those intrusive thoughts. And this is quite interesting because from my research over the years and practical experience, it’s quite clear to me that the major factor that causes the emotional charge of an intrusive thought is its imagery. The way you see it in the mind is what actually gives it that emotional intensity.

You look at that imagery, you look at his properties, the different qualities that make that imagery so intense. Typically, of course, intrusive thoughts are going to be very large in size. So the size of that imagery is a major factor that determines its intensity.

Also its position. If it is in a very dominating position we are likely to feel overwhelmed by the thought, and that’s why it feels overwhelming because we see it literally above us. We see it in a high position in our mental internal visual field. That position gives it power.

So very typical ways of working with the emotional aspect of intrusive thoughts would involve making them smaller and moving them to a lower level, putting them on the ground, for example. It’s quite interesting how you can really change the intensity of a thought or belief or a memory by changing its size and its position.

So that’s one way that we approach neutralizing the intrusive thoughts. There are many other aspects of the imagery we can work with such as color, texture and so on. The more that you see of its imagery the more that you can change, and the more you change the imagery of the thought the less power it has.

So that’s a very classic way that we use to work with intrusive thoughts, to neutralize their charge so that they no longer feel overwhelming and are no longer able to compel us into unwanted behaviors.

So if you like to learn more about online Mindfulness Therapy for OCD using these and other techniques that I teach, then please reach out to me and send me an email. Tell me more about your particular circumstances and what you are struggling with and let schedule a trial therapy session.

So if you would like to learn more about this very exciting and interesting way of working with intrusive thoughts, then do please contact me.

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