Phobias

Do you suffer from exaggerated, uncontrollable or seemingly irrational intense fears around certain situations, environments or objects?  Do you find yourself adjusting your activities or lifestyle to avoid phobic situations?  Hypnotherapy can change your life.  

As odd as it may sound, phobias are often learned.  The subconscious beliefs associated with the phobia are generated from sensitising events in earlier life that we have simply forgotten.  So what may feel like a fundamental part of you, as real as your arms and legs, may, in fact, be a choice.  Hypnotherapy offers the chance to identify and understand the underlying causes and fix the issue quickly and permanently.  Sounds like magic, right?

Fear has a purpose in your life, even debilitating fear.  It’s there to protect.  By shining a light on the original events that led your feeling brain to its protective conclusion and bringing new wisdom to those events, the whole reason for the fear becomes a new choice, and like a set of pins being knocked over by a bowling ball each subsequent event can be re-assessed in the light of the preceding. 

How does hypnotherapy help?

We know that people fall in and out of waking hypnosis every day; it is a natural state.  We sometimes experience that state when we engage in a repetitive task or find ourselves in flow, wholly engrossed in an activity.  But consider for a moment the possibility that a phobia is itself a form of self-hypnosis.  Caught in the grips of fear, you are hypnotising yourself to feel something which isn’t actually occurring.  You are suspending your disbelief, your critical faculty is completely bypassed, and you give credence to your feelings like they were in control of your reality.  You know it doesn’t make sense, and yet it feels like a relentless and powerful aspect of your identity.  You are, in short, hypnotising yourself.

My job as a hypnotherapist is, at least in part, to de-hypnotise you from that unnecessary state of fear.

A mind expanded can never snap back: it brings enduring change and can help you to accept yourself, free yourself and rediscover your zest for life.  Together, we create a safe place where your feelings can be gradually examined, considering your circumstances and sensitivities. As you build a greater sense of inner connection and trust, you find new ways to look after yourself and bring about profound shifts in your confidence, strength and ability to take back control of your emotions.