From feeling ill at ease to full blown panic attacks, excess anxiety can stop you living the life that you want and deserve. In just a few sessions my aim is to help you back to the life you should be living.
How Hypnotherapy can help Anxiety, Panic and Worry
Many clients who come to me for treatment are suffering from some level of anxiety. If you were one such client my first aim would be to help you experience the deep relaxation that can be acheived through hypnosis. This helps reduce the many uncomfortable symptoms that go with being anxious, worried or panicky. Then, using interactive dynamic hypnotherapy, we would work on releasing the cause of the problem and on building up inner resources such as resilience and confidence so that you can get back on with your life as soon as possible.
Go to this article for more information on how hypnosis and hypnotherapy help Anxiety
There is often a great deal of confusion between stress and anxiety. They are in fact quite different experiences, although they can overlap and if left untreated, are similar in their effects on the body and mind.
Stress tends to be a response to a real event or situation in life, something you may feel you (unwillingly) have to put up with, or that puts you under pressure, a situation where perhaps you feel out of control.
Anxiety is sometimes harder to pin down, but here are some examples.
- It may be the result of a stressful situation. Say you’ve been burgled. For most people that would be a stressful event. But once you’ve dealt with the immediate situation, police, insurance, and fortifying your security, if you’re left constantly worrying about what if…? Or if every little noise at night has your heart pounding, then that’s anxiety.
- A constant but usually low level feeling of disquiet. A slightly fluttering feeling in the stomach, or raised heart rate for no apparent reason. Feeling slightly faint or dizzy when there’s no medical cause.
- Worrying unnecessarily. The imagination is in overdrive, thinking about all sorts of things that could go wrong, but haven’t yet.
- A tendency to over-react to relatively trivial events.
- A feeling of fear, but you don’t know why, or you do know why, but logically it doesn’t make any sense.
It is important to realise that these symptoms, like the racing heart, dry mouth, churning stomach, jelly legs, thoughts running away with you, whilst uncomfortable, are not in themselves dangerous, although in the long term, not particularly good for you either.
The trouble with anxiety is that it has a tendency to feed into itself so that you can end up feeling anxious about your symptoms, thus increasing the overall feelings of dis-ease. This is particularly true of Panic Attacks.
Panic Attacks
A Panic attack is an expression of extreme anxiety. When you first experience a panic attack, it can be difficult to believe that it is nervous in origin, because the symptoms are so severe. You can feel as if you are losing control, going mad, even dying.
And then you will probably do anything to avoid the type of situation when your first panic attack occurred. You may even find yourself pre-occupied with the fear of having another episode. Over time your body may become sensitised, and often over-reactive to the mildest of situations. As with anxiety, the aim of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is to help reduce the levels of nervous arousal in the body, to let go of any causes of the problem and to build up your ability to meet life's problems and challenges calmly and confidently.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterised by feelings of anxiety, fearfulness, tension and worry, on most days, on a long term basis.
You may feel restless or keyed up and you may tire easily. You may find it hard to concentrate, your mind may even go blank sometimes. Good quality sleep may well elude you.
Without help GAD can become a chronic condition, waxing and waning for years depending on what is going on in your life.
Test Anxiety and Fear of Exams
Help for Test Anxiety and Fear of Exams
Whether you are anxious about your driving test or suffer from exam nerves, this could be for you.
Even if you are very conscientious, revise well, or practise daily, and know all your material back to front, all that effort could be wasted if you are overwhelmed by nerves and anxiety, either leading up to your test or on the big day.
If your exams or tests are really getting on top of you, with just a few sessions of hypnotherapy my aim is to help you
- Get back on course.
- Relieve your stress
- Enhance your learning processes
- Improve your performance
- Prepare yourself for the success you deserve.
To find out more about treatment for test anxiety or exam nerves just message me on 07854 055 926 to arrange a call, or email me using my contact page.
Hypnotherapy for Performance Anxiety
How to get out of your own way and be at your best when it matters most
Are you plagued by performance nerves? Do you have problems with any of the following?
- Worry and stress about your performance or any part of it?
- Negative thinking or habitual mistakes that interfere with your performance?
- Performing at your best with confidence and resourcefulness?
- Improving your performance and extending your comfort zone?
- Enjoying developing your skills and performing them in front of others?
A few years ago I was visited by a musician who had made a mistake in a piece of music and however much he tried, however much he practised, couldn’t stop making the same mistake in the same place again and again. This had gone on to affect his general performance because all he could think about was the place where he made the mistake and whether he’d get through it safely. It even made him worry about making more mistakes in other places.
He had got to the stage where he had such a fear of performing he was wondering if he could continue. In just a few sessions of hypnotherapy we had eliminated the problem and used mental rehearsal to enable him to return to the confident and competent player that he really was.
Whether you are a musician, an actor, a dancer, a golfer, a tennis player or you partake in any other activity that involves you demonstrating your skills in front of others, you are vulnerable to developing performance anxiety together with the stress and damage to confidence that it brings.
My aim is to help you:
- Learn to relax and calm everything down
- Remove or resolve any issues which may have been holding you back (you may not even know they are there)
- Think and feel confident and positive about what you want to, and can, achieve.
- Mentally rehearse your performance while in hypnosis so that your subconscious mind fully understands what is expected.
To find out more about treatment for performance anxiety just message me on 07854 055 926 to arrange a call, or email me using my contact page.
Performance anxiety has many similarities to the very common fear of speaking in public. If this is something that bothers you, that limits your enjoyment of life or gets in the way of you progressing your career then why not get some help here?
Work Related Performance Anxiety
Whether preparing for an interview or worrying about promotion, hypnotherapy can be a creative and beneficial tool in resolving anxiety issues related to your work and your prospects.
Working life can entail many challenges, particularly when you want to perform at your best or prepare yourself for promotion or other advancement.Here are a few examples where building your confidence and the way you present yourself could make a big difference:
- You want to seek promotion or ask for a pay rise but fear putting your head above the parapet.
- Your annual performance review is due and you are not looking forward to it.
- You work in a very competitive environment and the support you would expect from your boss or colleagues simply isn't there.
- You are taking on a big new project and feel uncertain of your success.
- You are returning to work after a break and feel nervous or fearful of interviews.
In just a few sessions I aim to help you:
- Calm down the stress and anxiety that could be getting in your way.
- Let go of the negative self-talk or fearful feelings.
- Build up your confidence and self belief.
- Find creative new ways of thinking about problem solving or overcoming difficulties.
- Prepare you through rehearsal at a deep sub-conscious level for the challenges to come.
To find out more about work-related performance anxiety just message me on 07854 055 926 to arrange a call, or email me using my contact page.
