The best agoraphobia treatment without medication

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Welcome! My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado. And I offer online therapy over Skype for the treatment of anxiety and depression and addictions and also for the treatment of agoraphobia.

So I get a lot of requests for online treatment for agoraphobia. Not surprisingly, since it's so difficult to leave home to see a therapist in their office. So being able to see a therapist online using Skype is a great advantage if you're suffering from agoraphobia, and from my experience, it's just as effective talking to a therapist online as it is talking to a therapist in person. The most important thing is that you can see each other because that's necessary for effective communication. But if you can see each other using Skype or similar video platform, then there's really no difference between Skype therapy, or meeting in person.

So the way that I go about helping people overcome agoraphobia is by teaching them how to apply mindfulness for working with the severe anxiety that's associated with agoraphobia and, specifically, using a plan that we call mindfulness-based exposure therapy.

So in order to overcome any form of phobia or extreme anxiety, it's necessary to work with that compulsive habitual anxiety reaction skillfully, using some form of exposure therapy. You can't expect to get over your agoraphobia by avoiding situations or trying to escape your anxiety. Avoidance and any form of distraction away from the anxiety or simply feed it.

So it's really important that you engage in some form of exposure therapy. But what really makes exposure therapy work is when you have a very well planned and systematic approach. It's not sufficient to simply throw yourself into challenging situations and then hoping that that will lessen your anxiety. That seldom works. But if you approach it in a very systematic way, preparing well before each exposure challenge, then exposure therapy does indeed work.

So in the mindfulness approach, we prepare for our exposure challenges. And in a variety of ways, the first thing that we do is that we learn how to meditate on the anxiety beforehand. So we call this a rehearsal meditation. We meditate on the imagined challenge and watch for any anxiety reactions that arise out of habit.

When we notice the anxiety, we then cultivate a mindfulness-based relationship with that anxiety. This is essential. This is what makes the difference, when you can learn how to stay with the anxiety without becoming identified with it and without proliferating that anxiety with further emotional reactions and further cognitive reactions. So learning to stay with the anxiety in the rehearsal meditation is the way of training yourself out of that compulsive habitual reaction.

Also, during the rehearsal meditation, we work with that anxiety, helping it to resolve. So we're training in the anxiety to resolve itself before we do the challenge, this training is so essential. We keep playing through the scene of the exposure challenge working with the anxiety reactions until they are completely neutralized and that we feel no anxiety anticipating the exposure challenge. Then is the time to do the challenge, not before.

We might also look at any anxiety that occurred after doing a challenge, and we work on that fresh anxiety in the same way. Building a non-reactive relationship with the anxiety.

The second part of the healing process is learning how to develop compassion for the emotions that get activated out of habit. So this is forming a compassionate relationship with the anxiety. The more compassion you can establish internally towards your anxiety, the faster it will heal and extinguish itself.

So if you'd like to learn more about online treatment for agoraphobia using mindfulness-based exposure therapy, then do please contact me and let's schedule a session. This systematic approach has proven to be very effective indeed and most of my clients see significant improvements within three or four sessions. So if you'd like to get started with me, then do please contact me. Thank you.

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