HYPNOTHERAPY FOR FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND SOCIAL ANXIETY

Hypnotherapy induces a relaxed state where you can access you unconscious mind. Here, negative beliefs and fears can be replaced with positive suggestions and coping strategies.

Hypnotherapy provides several advantages, including the ability to pinpoint and tackle the underlying causes of anxiety while fostering the development of positive coping strategies, all within a relaxed setting. By harnessing the power of the unconscious mind, which constitutes a significant portion of our cognitive processes, hypnotherapy proves to be an effective approach for treating performance or social anxiety.

The conscious mind represents a relatively small portion of our cognitive processes, often estimated to be around 5-10% of our mental activity. This is the part of our mind responsible for immediate awareness, decision-making, and active thinking.

Conversely, the unconscious mind, which includes various levels of awareness, memories, emotions, and automatic processes, is believed to make up the majority, accounting for roughly 90-95% of our mental activity. It plays a significant role in shaping our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, often outside our immediate awareness.

Hypnotherapy, as I practice it, amalgamates elements of Strategic Psychotherapy and NLP, all facilitated through the use of Clinical Hypnosis. This blended approach enables a more relaxed and expedited pathway to absorb new information or insights. It is a valuable tool for addressing a wide array of issues, foremost among them being anxiety.

Hypnosis is a state where you are relaxed and your mind is open to take on new suggestions. Hypnosis occurs when the brain hoovers in-between the states know as Alpha (relaxation) and Theta (deep mediation and light sleep), this is where you have a strong internal focus. If you have ever practised meditation or mindfulness, or found yourself day-dreaming, zoning out while driving, running or become absorbed in a movie, Netflix or a book, you will have already been in a hypnotic trance state.

Everyone does hypnosis in their own way, some find it deeply relaxing, others don’t and that’s ok. Nearly everyone can be hypnotised. We go into this hypnotic, trance state regularly throughout our day just doing our routine everyday tasks.

Assuming you adhere to the program as instructed, you can typically anticipate a substantial positive outcome within 4-6 sessions in most cases.

There are a number of difference:

It is a brief therapy, which means unlike many therapies we would look to have a significant outcome in 4-6 sessions for social or perfromance anxiety, not 20+ sessions.

It is directive, we don’t wait for you to come up with solution, we are goal oriented, and by working together we will find out how you are doing your problem and how best to resolve it.

We are focussed on the present and future, if you want to rehash your past and understand why you do something this is not the right therapy for you. Your past is of course important but it is unchangeable, and so to make lasting change we will focus how you are doing your problem and what you can change in your present and future