Treating Anxiety with Hypnotherapy is just one of the many ways hypnosis can help clients achieve a more healthier,  longer and happier life.

Anxiety is a word used to describe feelings of uncertainty, hesitation or fear and is usually context related.

The first question I ask someone who tells me they 'have anxiety' is usually, 'how do you know when to be anxious?'

Some feel anxiety when talking to strangers, some feel anxiety when giving presentations, some get anxiety driving on a motorway.  A few will say they feel anxiety all the time.

There is, in my experience, always a pattern to anxiety, it is not random. I treat it as a learned behaviour. Indeed, it is said that the only two fears humans are born with are those of loud noises and falling - the rest are learned (albeit unwittingly).

Because the human brain learns so quickly, it is often possible to literally rapidly 're-condition' the learned response of anxiety so that the next time the person is in a situation which previously made them feel bad (anxious), instead they feel more resourceful and capable.

As with the majority of change work I do with my clients, my approach is threefold.

1 I spend time looking and listen to the person to determine how it is the patterns of thinking/feeling (labeled anxiety) manifest themselves.

2 I then work consciously to begin to help build flexibility in the way the person thinks about things, they way they remember the past and imagine the future, the way they talk to themselves, and literally the way they experience the world.

3 I work unconsciously (hypnosis) to help the person to gain flexibility in their behaviour, to build with suggestion, metaphor and conditioning new resources, and to connect the person with the resources they almost invariably have but have been unable to access during the 'anxiety'.

I expect to usually be able to demonstrate a difference in a person's thinking in just one session, and the average total number of sessions needed to sort 'anxiety' is about four.

 Contact the Totnes Hypnotherapy Practice for a free consultation to discover what changes you can achieve.

Telephone  01803 868031.

See Also

Hypnotherapy for Stress Management