Fears & phobias
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Horsham
Depression, anxiety, stress and low mood
Discover a sense of calm and clarity, helping you regain balance and positivity in your life.
”Fears and phobias are similar in that they both involve a strong emotional response to specific situations, objects, or concepts. However, they differ in intensity, duration, and how they affect a person’s life.”
Problem
Fears
- Normal and Common: Fear is a natural, often healthy response to danger or threats. It’s common and can even be protective, activating a person’s “fight-or-flight” response.
- Specific and Temporary: Fears are typically specific to certain things, such as heights, spiders, or public speaking, and usually arise only when the person is directly confronted by the feared situation.
- Manageable: Most fears do not interfere with daily life. For example, someone might feel uneasy near a spider, but it doesn’t cause extreme disruption.
Phobias
- Intense and Persistent: A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by an excessive, irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. It goes beyond a normal fear response and can last for a long time.
- Avoidance and Impact on Life: People with phobias often go to great lengths to avoid the object or situation they fear, which can significantly interfere with their everyday life.
- Physical and Emotional Reactions: Exposure to a phobic trigger can lead to extreme reactions, such as panic attacks, sweating, rapid heartbeat, and dizziness. These reactions are often disproportionate to the actual level of danger.
Types of phobias
- Specific Phobias: Intense fear of a particular object or situation, such as heights (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), or flying (aviophobia).
- Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder): Fear of social situations where one might be judged or scrutinized, like public speaking or meeting new people.
- Agoraphobia: Fear of situations where escape might be difficult, such as open spaces, crowded places, or being alone outside of the home.
Solution
Sometimes, simply helping you reduce the stress in your life and helping you to relax can be enough to reduce the phobia feelings to almost nothing. Other times, the Hypnotherapist will start by emptying your metaphorical stress bucket. The next session will be called a rewind. This is where a memory of a phobia situation will be replayed forwards and backwards in your mind until it no longer feels bad in anyway. The third session is called a reframe. This is where, in hypnosis, you picture yourself acting the way you want to behave around whatever used to make you feel phobic. After that, you will be able to see spiders, give presentations, get on a plane, etc, without giving it a second thought.
Pricing
- Initial consultation (plus mp3 relaxation download)
- FREE
60 mins - This is an opportunity for us to meet so that you can tell me what you need help with, and I can tell you how I can help. We will also have a discussion about the brain which will help you understand why you are feeling the way you do. I will also explain the process of the sessions, so that you will know what to expect. The consultation will also provide you with the opportunity to ask me any questions that you may have and dispel any myths about hypnosis.
- Individual sessions (after initial consultation)
- £50
60 mins - These sessions include a combination of psychotherapy and hypnosis. They are solution focused so we are not dwelling on the past but focusing on the present and working together towards the future so that you can transform your life for the better.
- Block of 8 sessions (plus free initial consultation)
- £350
60 mins - As Solution Focused Hypnotherapists we work relatively quickly, and you could see solutions to your problems after 8-12 sessions although sometimes more. As we are all unique and ‘one size does not fit all’ the number of sessions depends on the person and what they need help with. The initial consultation provides a good opportunity for us to decide on what size fits you.
- Stop smoking/Vaping cessation
- £200
2 hours - This is a very insightful and empowering session as we really step out of the primitive brain and into the intellectual brain. We will discuss smoking and its harmful effects and why you may have found it difficult to stop in the past. We will focus on the health benefits of not smoking and how the resultant increased levels of control will benefit other areas of your life. We will use language patterns and trance to embed the teachings into your subconscious to help change your thinking around smoking.
- Specific phobia/Fear
- £120
3 sessions - Block of 3 sessions (including free initial consultation). Specific phobias and fears can be very disabling and can prevent us from living the life we want to. We can use hypnotherapy techniques to help erase the phobia and fear memory from our Hippocampus and replace it with a new memory – a memory you have control over. The first session will involve confidence building and the following two sessions we will employ the techniques to erase the old memory and replace with the new.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
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In-person and online, solution focused hypnotherapy sessions tailored to suit your individual needs
Sliding scale
I am aware that these are financially difficult times, so I want to try and make my therapy available for everyone. Therefore, I offer a sliding scale to the following:
- People with a long-term physical or mental health condition or disability and are claiming either Personal Independent Payment (PIP), Employment Support Allowance (ESA), or both.
- People that work for the emergency services, NHS, social care sector, and armed forces and hold a blue light card
- State pensioners
- Veterans of the armed forces
We can discuss the sliding scale price during the initial consultation.