Through the use of Hypnotherapy alone or combined with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Psychodynamic Counselling we can help you see the source of your old unwanted fear in a far more rational, resourceful and often humorous way.
Imagine the subject of your phobia no longer having that extreme and debilitating power over you but rather being something that you are able to laugh at!
All phobias, regardless of what they may be, are all caused by inner emotion. That is to say that a phobia is a “symbolic representation of an internal subconscious anxiety.” Phobias are a specific type of fear or anxiety that is triggered off when coming into contact with an external stimulus. In order for your mind to ‘rationalise’ this anxiety,
it has to attach the anxiety onto a specific object or situation. Every time a sufferer comes into contact with their specific stimulus, the anxiety will trigger and a phobic reaction occurs. It is therefore inevitable, that a sufferer will do absolutely ANYTHING to avoid a situation that contains this.
The cause of all phobias almost always stem from your early years. When we are growing up and are faced with experiences that create intense emotion, our relatively inexperienced mind efficiently ‘ bottles up ‘ this emotion and effectively stores it in the sub conscious.
A phobia can then develop as a warning to us, not to get into that situation again. The emotion simply tries to release itself, via an external stimulus, creating those dreaded phobic symptoms such as trembling, panic attacks, palpitations and intense anxiety. One has no conscious awareness of the emotions that are driving the phobia.
Some common phobias include:
All of these phobias usually symbolise a situation where the person feels ‘out of control’.
Other very common phobias that we have treated include:
Emetophobia – fear of being sick
Emetophobia often affects more women than mean and is a fear of choking or gagging or a fear of being sick. The sufferer tends to be a bit obsessed about food and what they eat, catching germs etc. and associated fears included seeing someone else be sick, or catching an illness.
Social Anxiety – fear of being judged
Social Anxiety (also known as Social Phobia) is where the person is afraid of being judged (by
someone else), or terrified of being put on the spot. Associated symptoms include a fear of public speaking, blushing, feeling hot and bothered, stuttering, stammering, shy bladder (in men). It is the most common phobia.
Coprophobia – fear of going to the toilet in public (messing yourself)
Coprophobia is surprisingly common and is a fear of anything related to shit/shitting, toilets, public toilets, being heard going to the toilet, feeling unclean or dirty generally. Symptoms/behaviours include:
There are plenty of other phobias out there, don’t be afraid to speak with us about them, if you think you might be experiencing them.
As phobias are caused by bottling up strong emotions, it stands to reason that in order to eliminate the phobia, these emotions must be released. Hypnotherapy and analysis is an effective therapy to help seek out these emotions and release them. We are simply removing the cause through hypnotherapy, therefore the phobia can disappear.
Sometimes other therapies are simply unable to gain access to these stored emotions and thus are only able to treat the symptom, not the cause. Analytical Therapy, works with the cause curing the underlying fear.
No phobia is too silly to consult with. Rest assured there will be a specific name for it.
If your ready to conquer your fear or phobia then give us a call on 0151 706 8035 or use our contact form to get in touch and book your FREE consultation.
Got questions about how therapy works, or what to expect? We have answered some of the most common questions to help you feel informed and at ease before getting started.
No, you remain in control the whole time. If there is something that you prefer to keep private, then that is your choice.
No, it’s impossible to get stuck in a trance. You can open your eyes at any time during the session, ending the hypnotic state immediately. Sometimes clients feel so relaxed that they feel a little reluctant to end the sensation but they never stay in a trance.
No, there are absolutely no negative side effects from being hypnotised. It is a perfectly safe and natural way of using your inner resources to reorganise your thoughts and behaviours to bring about beneficial change. After the session you will feel very relaxed but it’s completely safe to drive, operate machinery or anything else.
No. If someone volunteers to be hypnotised by a stage hypnotist they know what they are letting themselves in for. They know they are going to be made an object of fun for entertainment purposes but they are game for a laugh and happy to go along with it. If someone was dragged out of the audience against their will, then whatever the stage hypnotist tried would not work.
No, this is a common misconception. Hypnotherapy is all about you having more control of your own mind, so the client is the one who has control. Nothing will be said to you under hypnosis that is not for your benefit but if you didn’t agree with anything, your mind would just reject it.