Overcome Your Agoraphobia with Online Therapy

Category: Agoraphobia Online Therapy | Last updated: February 1st, 2022 | Reviewed and approved by:
Dr. Steven Gans, MD
Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, PhD

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fears of public or open spaces. A person suffering from agoraphobia usually has previously had a panic attack in public and, therefore, avoids similar places or situations due to the fear of re-experiencing it.

Common places that are avoided are places that are difficult to easily escape like cinemas, churches, stores and traveling publicly by bus, train or airplane. If you avoid public situations like this due to the fear of having a panic attack and sometimes even isolate yourself at home, you might be suffering from agoraphobia.

If this sounds like you, please know you are not stuck; there are treatments that can help you. Our therapy for agoraphobia is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT focuses on the negative thinking patterns and behaviors that contribute to your fear of having a panic attack and lead to avoidance. With the help of your therapist, you will slowly be exposed to real-life situations that cause your fear of a panic attack. While this may sound scary, it will be safe and will eventually help you overcome your fears. You will learn how to control your anxiety and to look at your fears in a more realistic light. As you progress through the treatment, the thought or experience of panic will become less petrifying. Eventually you will be able to cope with previously fearful situations so you can take control of your life again.

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"We started using online-therapy.com for the couples therapy and it's really great so far. I like that it contains a video course, that you can do by yourself with feedback from the therapist, additional to the sessions. We prefer the video sessions, compared to chat sessions. It's also quite helpful to be able to send messages in between session to your therapist. That way you can summarise before a meeting of what happened and use the time effectively.

A little downside seems to be so far, that you can only book one lesson per week, so if you had to reschedule due to an urgent thing, make sure you have one session per week. Otherwise you might lose out on that, it's not possible to do two sessions in one week, even if you didn't have one in the previous week!"

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"Li is very discerning and objective in her feedback."

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"I appreciate how easy it is to communicate with my therapist (and how communicative she is!)"

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"The worksheets and one live session.
I'm already feeling better."

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Rating: [4 out of 5 stars!]

"I like my meeting with my therapist , the previous was not as compasionate on her approach so I switched and I like her more, she is kind and listens while respecting my trail of thought. She makes me think further but I would like to go more deep in terms of guidance from their side. I also find because your therapists have back to back appointments sometimes, i feel that the closing of the discussion is kind of abrupt as we really share very personal experiences. I generally find that it has helped clear some things in my mind, I like the convenience of booking online my appointments."

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Rating: [5 out of 5 stars!]

"I am very satisfied about working with Dr Vicki. She is very professional, with a lot of experience. She helped me to navigate a time of uncertainty and stress due to health and job issues, with kindness, deep understanding and positivity. She is also a great therapist that is helping me with changing my career. Thank you Dr. Vicki"

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"Im enjoying being able to message my therapist rather than only having to rely on videochat
Thank you for this service"

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"Kat has a very good manner, is clearly knowledgable and capable. We think her contribution has been very helpful, thanks."

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"Good"

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