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Phobias:

Fear can hold all of us back at certain times, and is a natural reaction to something that may be life threatening. Sometimes however our fears become irrational and start to interfere with our everyday life and stop us doing the things that we want to do. Phobias can start with an even, real or imagined, an activity or even an item, and the more often we experience a phobic reaction, the stronger that phobia can get. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help with all phobias from fear of spiders or flying to more complex issues such as agoraphobia and claustrophobia.

Specific phobias are when people have one specific trigger in their lives that causes a fear response, for example; needles, flying or spiders and can be dealt with in 4 sessions.

Non-specific phobias are more complex and tend to affect us more deeply, for example; agoraphobia, claustrophobia and emetophobia. These issues being more complex may require 8-12 sessions.

If you want to discuss how Katrina can help you with any fear that you are experiencing, give Katrina a call today and we can discuss the process and arrange an initial consultation. For flying, the 4 sessions are best booked just before you take your flight.

Anxiety Disorders:

Anxiety is a natural emotion that we feel in our everyday lives when we are faced with a stressful situation, for example a business meeting, a job interview or sitting an exam. Normally we can handle these brief stressful moments but sometimes they can stay with us, making us feel worried and anxious for a lot of the time, leading us to feel out of control and overwhelmed with our everyday life.

Our anxiety can then lead onto conditions such as PTSD, generalised anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, and phobias.

We experience anxiety when we find ourselves in a threatening situation and the brain stimulates a fight, flight or freeze response. When man was primitive and found himself in a life threatening situation this response was life preserving. We don’t often find ourselves in today’s world in a life threatening situation, but the brain is still programmed to produce this response if we feel threatened in any way, even if it’s as simple as being late for work when we are stuck in traffic. Anything that is out of our control or normal comfort zone the brain will see as a threat and will respond with our primitive fight, flight or freeze programmes. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy enables us to consciously notice when we may be feeling this response so that we can logically think of situations in a less threatening manner and therefore find positive solutions to reduce our anxiety.

We discuss how the brain works and how it can make us suffer with all this anxiety in our initial consultation and what we can do to start reducing the amount of anxiety/stress that we feel.