How Hypnotherapy can help with fears and phobias

Do you have a fear or phobia that is effecting your day to day life or stopping you from doing the things you want to do? You’re not alone.

Over the last 20 or so years as a Hypnotherapist, I have helped many clients to overcome their fears and phobias.
Some of the most common fears and phobias I have used Hypnotherapy for are fear of:

• Heights
• Flying
• Spiders
• Water
• Dogs
• Death

Let me give you an example of a patient I have helped…

Sandra, a lady in her 70s, had a fear of water. She knows what triggered her fear… When she was 17 she went to visit a local swimming pool with her friends. Not realising she couldn’t swim, and as part of messing about, they threw her into the pool. Sandra couldn’t swim and nearly drowned, somehow dragging herself to the side of the pool and out to safety. She remembered vividly how she had felt “this is it, my life is over, I’m going to drown”. Her friends were incredibly apologetic, but the fear had been triggered.

Over the years, she has tried to overcome this horrific experience, but nothing seemed to work. At several points in her life, she tried to overcome her fear by having swimming lessons. But, no matter how much the instructor coaxed her away from the poolside, she was overcome with fear and panic and could not budge. Anyone coming near her would cause her to panic in case she was splashed in the face or would somehow lose her grip and disappear under the water.

Sandra really wanted to be able to enjoy the water with her children and then grandchildren, especially when they were on holidays.

Sandra now

Through a course of hypnotherapy, I was able to help Sandra to overcome her fear. She is now able to go swimming with her grown-up children and also enjoy time in the water with her grandchildren, something that she had never been able to face doing but had longed to be able to do.

Fear of Uncertainty

2020 has brought many new fears into place, the fear of:

• Uncertainty,
• Covid,
• The vaccine,
• Job loss,
• Relationships breaking down,
• What tomorrow or next week may bring…

Hypnotherapy Can Help

Together, we can work to help you to become calmer, less stressed, less fearful. You can learn to live your life on a day to day basis, rather than using all of your energies worrying about what the future may or may not bring.

Our circumstances may not change for the foreseeable future, but, how you deal with your own personal circumstances CAN change. I am here to help you.

Please download the Stay Calm audio that you can access on my website. If you have any questions or would like to book yourself in for a free 15-minute consultation, then please fill out my contact form.

Let’s get you into a better state of mind so that you can cope with your life from a better headspace.

Until next time…