Phobias

Broken down into 3 or 4 sessions, Hypnotherapy can work to scratch out specific phobic templates in our brains and replace them with more positive ones. Those with pre-existing anxiety dispositions may need a few extra sessions, but if it’s simply a phobia you’re looking to collapse, the good news is, it can be done in 3-4 sessions and is a permanent change!

Examples of just a few specific phobias:-

• Acrophobia -fear of heights
• Trypanophobia – fear of needles
• Agoraphobia – fear of going outside
• Escalaphobia – fear of escalators
• Trypophobia – fear of clustered shapes
• Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges or tunnels
• Amaxophobia – fear of driving a car
• Astraphobia – the fear of thunder and lightning

“After having a phobia of going down on escalators for around 20 years, it was beginning to rule my life and my family’s life, so I really needed to do something about it.

Just the thought of having to go towards a down escalator would send my heart pounding, my pulse racing, bring on a hot sweat, not to mention the ‘oh mum do we really have to go and find the stairs?!” type of comments… and I haven’t even mentioned the fear of vertigo!

I would stand at the top of an escalator, (with my husband saying ‘you can do it – just step on’) and try my best to step on, miss several steps, get pushed from someone behind me (that was expecting me to just step on and move). Then I’d start to feel sick, dizzy and disorientated, and then I couldn’t coordinate my limbs to even step on if I tried – my legs would go like jelly and I would sometimes even end up crying!!

I really didn’t know what to expect, but the whole process was so much simpler and more comfortable than what I perceived it would be like. In fact Clare helped me to sleep like a baby, relax, ease overall tension, calm down, and helped me to see clearly, think rationally, make me more sociable, put things into perspective…. and that’s even before we got to the escalator phobia!

Then as if by magic, she said ‘right you’re cured – go and have a lovely shopping day out with your daughter. Go up and down as many escalators as you want’. At this point I was still not convinced it had worked. So, I organised a day out with my daughter and hey presto – I went down 10 escalators that day – 3 of them on my own, and then I did it all again a couple of days later, completely on my own to make sure I could still do it!!

I can highly recommend Clare and the whole hypnotherapy process. Her voice is very calming and reassuring and makes you feel completely at ease. I have already referred some friends – so what are you waiting for – book today and change your life too!” LS

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