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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist
specializing in online therapy and I offer online therapy for agoraphobia. So,
agoraphobia online therapy is very effective for people who really can't get out
of the house to work with a therapist in their local area. So, during these
sessions that I offer via Skype, I focus on teaching you very effective
mindfulness-based methods of working with your anxiety and panic attacks. The
real important thing to understand here is that Agoraphobia is really a
psychological habit. I prefer to call it a habit rather than a disorder because
when you start labeling these psychological states as disorders that tends to
reinforce your sense of helplessness as a victim, and we don't want to do that.
The actual mechanism that generates the anxiety and panic attacks of agoraphobia
is a habit and habits can be changed.
So during online agoraphobia therapy
sessions I will guide you in how to work with the underlying emotions and
thought patterns that supports that anxiety. We do this in a surprising way. We
actually learn to make friends with our fear. This is very, very important. You
can't change the belief when it has a very strong emotional charge based on
fear. No amount of rational arguments or persuasion that you don't need to feel
this way is going to change that anxiety. You have to learn to work with the
anxiety directly. And that's what you do during mindfulness therapy. We actually
learn to meditate on your own fear as you imagine walking or traveling out of
your safe zone.
So, we set up a series of challenges, exposures, if you like,
where you choose to do a particularly difficult exercise but one that you can
manage. But then we prepare for this by playing it through in the mind it might
be walking around the block or just simply leaving the house for a few minutes,
whatever it might be. We design a challenge and then we prepare for it by
meditating on it. We play it through in the mind and then we look for the fear
reactions and we look for the thought reactions that feed that fear and then we
develop a mindfulness-based relationship with these emotions and thoughts, and
that relationship is based on friendliness. You learn, essentially, to sit with
your emotions and thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them, without losing
your balance. This is central. This is a central part of mindfulness training,
that you can be with your thoughts and emotions but not be overwhelmed by them.
When you can do dance then you start to break the habits that get reinforced by
re-traumatizing, essentially, that fear.
So, we learn to sit with our emotions
without becoming reactive and without identifying with those emotions. We learn
to develop this other side of our identity, which we call the True Self, the
Observer Mind, that which can be conscious of thoughts and emotions but is not
identified with thoughts or emotions. We then work with those emotions and begin
to treat them very much as you might treat a child that's afraid. we learn to
comfort the emotion itself, the fear. you build a strong relationship with it,
rather like a parent to a child. And in this way the fear reaction, that we
might call the Little Self is able to let go of its fear by proximity to your
True Self which is fearless nature. So, in this way we begin to build resolution
pathways in the brain.
You learn, basically, how to help the emotions resolve
themselves, so that if they get triggered they simply resolve instantly, on the
spot, through the training that you've done before you do the challenge And then
you go out and walk around the block or whatever and put this training into
action. So, we repeat this process over and over again. Meditation before
challenge and we do the challenge and we may come back and meditate some more
and then we repeat the challenge until we no longer feel any fear in doing that
challenge. Then we move on to a harder challenge. And in this way we gain more
and more confidence in the process.
So, when you are able to neutralize these
emotional reactions then the beliefs begin to change quite automatically. We
don't need to try and change our beliefs. We simply need to change the emotional
content that fuels those beliefs and makes them so powerful. If you would like
to learn more about agoraphobia therapy online do please send me an email and we
can schedule a Skype Therapy session. Thank you.
Online Therapist for help with
Agoraphobia via Skype
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