You can overcome your phobia or fear with hypnotherapy
The good news is that I can work with you and show you how you can overcome your phobia(s) and fear(s) quickly and effectively. In my sessions, phobias and fears can be deconditioned in a very relaxed and dissociated way without the need to unnecessarily and painfully recall past events. Your brain can be retrained to understand that these situations are actually safe.
The fear response can be attached to all sorts of stimuli including some unusual ones which is why some phobias can sometimes seem very irrational or indeed quite absurd.
In reality the phobic response to a stimuli is merely our survival mechanism going off in the wrong way. Humans have evolved to have an instinctive fear response because if we discovered something to be dangerous, to attach an immediate and instinctive fear response to it would mean that we were more likely to survive in the future.
When you have a high level of emotional intensity, this can easily and unconsciously become linked/glued to a specific stimulus. This explains why people can become phobic of some seemingly very unusual stimuli (e.g. buttons, a particular colour, balloons, beards, umbrellas).
The Rewind Technique
(also known as the Fast Phobia Cure or Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation (VKD)Technique)
I am well trained in the rewind technique which is a fantastic technique for treating phobias and fears and one which has startling results. Phobias can almost always be successfully treated with this technique in only one session. The great benefit of this technique is that it is unnecessary to refer to any upsetting memories in too much detail.
The technique allows for the phobic memory to move from the amygdala (the emotional part of the brain which alerts us to danger and which stimulates the body’s ‘flight or fight’ response) and to be translated as a verbal or narrative memory in the neocortex (the front part of the brain) where the memory is then stored. The memory is then reclassified by the brain as non-threatening and one which no longer activates the terror response.
Contact me for more information or if you would like to book your session with me to decondition your phobia.
The names of some of the more common phobias and fears are:
Phobia / fear of heights – Acrophobia (vertigo)
Phobia / fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places or leaving a safe place – Agoraphobia
Phobia / fear of needles or pointed objects – Aichmophobia
Phobia / fear of spiders – Arachnophobia
Phobia / fear of flying – Aviophobia/Aviatophobia
Phobia / fear of enclosed spaces – Claustrophobia
Phobia / fear of dogs – Cynophobia
Phobia / fear of dentists – Dentophobia
Phobia / fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations – Social phobia.
Phobia / fear of vomiting – Emetophobia
Phobia / fear of insects – Entomophobia
Phobia / fear of crossing or driving over bridges – Gephyrophobia
Phobia / fear of reptiles – Herpetophobia
Phobia / fear of water – Hydrophobia
Phobia / fear of mice – Musophobia
Phobia / fear of hospitals – Nosocomephobia
Phobia / fear of the dark – Nyctophobia
Phobia / fear of snakes – Ophidiophobia
Phobia / fear of birds – Ornithophobia
Phobia / fear of telephones – Telephonophobia
For a list of some other phobias and their names, you may wish to visit the phobia list