What is Phobia

Do you feel scared?

When confronted with situations or objects that you feel pose a threat to your well being, feeling scared is a healthy fear responses of your flight-or-fight response designed keep you safe.

When this natural fear response becomes:-

• An immediate feeling of intense fear, anxiety and panic when exposed to or even thinking about the source of your fear
• Worsening anxiety as the situation or object gets closer to you in time or physical proximity
• Awareness that your fears are unreasonable or exaggerated but feeling powerless to control them
• Doing everything possible to avoid the object or situation or enduring it with intense anxiety or fear
• Difficulty or not being able to function normally because of your fear

When this is the case, your fear has likely turned to a phobia, the physical effects can include:

• sweating
• abnormal breathing
• accelerated heartbeat
• trembling
• hot flushes or chills
• a choking sensation
• chest pains or tightness
• butterflies in the stomach
• pins and needles
• dry mouth
• confusion and disorientation
• nausea
• dizziness
• headache

If you are feeling this way you are not alone, In a 2007 Australian government survey, anxiety disorders (phobias) was the most common class of mental disorders with one in seven (14.4%) people,experiencing anxiety disorders in the 12 months prior to interview.

Sadly phobia statistics reveal that only 23% of all people with phobias seek treatment for their anxiety.

Nearly 17% of people with social phobias develop depression. The majority of them turn to medication, even substance abuse with illegal drugs (nearly 17%) or alcohol (nearly 19%).

But you don’t need to live with a phobia. All phobias are treatable.

While there are well over 500 named phobias, they fall into one of 5 broad categories:-

1. Situations:- such as airplanes, enclosed spaces, or public speaking
2. Nature:- heights, thunderstorms, the dark
3. Animals or insects:- dogs, snakes or spiders
4. Blood, injection or injury:- needles, seeing blood, accidents or medical procedures
5. Other:- choking, vomiting, contracting an illness, or costumed characters

The great news is they can all be removed in a single session

We can work closely with you to identity how your fear or phobia uniquely impacts you and gently in a relaxed manor adjust your sensitivity to it back to a more ordinary appropriate response

We use a unique mix NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), psychotherapy and  hypnotherapy to allow you to once again experience life without the limitations of fears and phobias

Contact us today to begin your journey to freedom from fear!