How to overcome driving anxiety

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Welcome. My name is Peter Strong. I'm a professional psychotherapist based in Colorado and I offer online therapy via Skype for anxiety and depression and many other emotional problems. One of the requests that I get quite frequently is for help in overcoming driving phobia and fear of driving, especially on highways and freeways.

So if you're looking for online treatments for driving phobia and you would like help getting over fear of driving, then you might want to consider the online therapy program that I teach.

So I'll teach you how to overcome your fear of driving in a very structured way using the techniques of Mindfulness-based Exposure Therapy. This is a system of work that I have been working on now for several years and that people find very effective for overcoming all kinds of anxiety, especially anxiety that involves panic attacks or fear of panic attacks such as driving anxiety.

So the key to overcoming fear of driving is not to avoid driving, but rather to learn how to design exposure challenges. We need to take on the anxiety in order to heal it, to overcome it. But we must do it in a very structured way.

So you design yourself a series of exposure challenges. That's the first step. Usually challenges of increasing difficulty. So you make a list of those challenges, even if it's as simple as driving to the beginning of a bridge or an on ramp to a motorway or highway. It's doesn't matter what this severity of the anxiety is, but the thing is to to construct a well formatted series of challenges that you can work through effectively on a daily basis, doing a challenge each day until you have completely mastered the challenge and developed complete confidence and complete absence of anxiety in that particular challenge.

So start with a simple challenge, first of all, to get to that place where you know that you feel completely confident doing that challenge, then you move on to the next challenge on your list.

So the secret to make this work, to really get over driving anxiety in an effective way is to train before you do each of those challenges.

So just doing the challenge over and over again is not enough. That is a typical approach in classical exposure therapy, but it's not very efficient and you do run the risk of re-traumatizing yourself and increasing that anxiety.

So what I've found to be much more effective is if you do mindfulness training some time before you actually do the challenge. It could be half an hour before doing the challenge. But the thing to do is to do that mindfulness training with the anxiety to neutralize it.

Then you do the challenge, and that way the challenge will be more likely to be effective and you'll be more likely to do it with with no anxiety and that will have a very strong reinforcing effect on your program for overcoming your driving anxiety.

So if you'd like help with overcoming your driving anxiety, then simply e-mail me through my website, go to the Contact Page. Tell me more about yourself and then let's schedule his Skype Therapy session and we can get started on your recovery from your fear of driving. Thank you.
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