Fears & Phobias
Break Free from Fears and Phobias with Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy
Regain Confidence. Restore Control. Live Freely.
Perhaps you’ve been living with a fear that feels out of proportion but no matter how much you try to reason with it, your body still reacts as if you’re in danger. Maybe it’s a fear of flying, driving, needles, public speaking or something else entirely and it’s starting to limit what you do, where you go or how confident you feel in everyday life.
No matter how much you reason with yourself, your body still reacts with panic or dread. These fears can feel exhausting and limiting, affecting your confidence, relationships and everyday freedom.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) offers a proven way to overcome fears and phobias. By combining CBT with therapeutic hypnosis, it helps you change the thoughts and automatic responses that keep fear in place, so you can feel calmer, more in control and ready to face situations with confidence.
With hypnotherapy for phobias, you can let go of avoidance, reduce anxiety and start living more freely again.
What Are Phobias?
Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder involving persistent, overwhelming fear of certain objects, environments or experiences, often out of proportion to any actual threat. These fears can arise from learned behaviour, early life experiences or heightened sensitivity in the brain’s threat-detection system.
Common phobias include:
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Specific phobias: such as fear of flying, animals, needles or heights
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Social anxiety: including fear of public speaking or social judgement
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Agoraphobia: fear of crowded or unfamiliar places, often linked with panic attacks
Left untreated, these conditions can lead to chronic stress, avoidance behaviours and missed opportunities in life and work.
How Can I Help?
Using a blend of relaxation techniques, focused attention, CBT-based strategies & psycho-sensory approaches allows us to work with your psychological processes in a deeply effective way, creating real, lasting change in how you think, feel and respond.
Calms the Body’s Fear Response
Hypnotherapy along with psycho-sensory techniques help regulate the body’s fight-or-flight system. Through guided relaxation and therapeutic suggestions, it lowers physical symptoms like racing heart, sweating and shallow breathing, giving you space to respond calmly and confidently.
Reframes Unhelpful Thinking
CBT-informed hypnotherapy challenges the catastrophic thoughts and negative predictions that keep phobias in place. Together, we replace them with more balanced, helpful perspectives, making the fear feel smaller and more manageable.
Builds New Associations and Emotional Safety
Through the power of mental rehearsal (a well-supported psychological tool), you learn to approach feared situations in a calm and safe way. This helps reduce avoidance and increases your sense of emotional resilience.
Targets the Underlying Triggers
Many fears are reinforced by earlier experiences or unhelpful conditioning. Hypnotherapy & psycho-sensory techniques offer a safe way to explore, process and neutralise these triggers, so they no longer control your responses.
Boosts Confidence and Control
Clients often leave sessions feeling more grounded, empowered and able to approach previously overwhelming situations with greater calm and self-assurance.
Why Clients Choose Hypnotherapy for Fear and Phobia Relief
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Backed by clinical research and meta-analyses
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A gentle, personalised and non-invasive treatment approach
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Supports both immediate symptom relief and long-term change
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Helps improve quality of life, reduce avoidance and restore freedom
You’re Not Alone and You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck
As a full-time Clinical Hypnotherapist, I understand how disruptive and isolating these fears can be. You don’t have to "just cope" or feel like you’re stuck with them forever. With the right support, you can break free. To explore how we can work together and start your journey back to how you want to feel now, click on the button below to arrange a complimentary Discovery Call.
