What is a Phobia?

(If your fears are less specific you may be interested in our section on hypnotherapy for anxiety.)

A phobia is an intense, irrational and uncontrollable fear of an object or situation. If you have a phobia, you likely know that your fear is out of proportion to the reality of the threat but logical argument doesn’t help. The fear experienced can be so irrational and intense that it can have a significant impact on your life and how you live it. Phobia suffers will go to great lengths to avoid the object or situation of their fear. Phobias are classified as anxiety disorders and share many symptoms with other anxiety disorders.

The 10 most commonly reported phobias in the UK, according to a survey by Anxiety UK, are:

• social phobia – fear of interacting with other people

• agoraphobia – fear of open public spaces

• emetophobia – fear of vomiting

• erythrophobia – fear of blushing

• driving phobia – fear of driving

• hypochondria – fear of illness

• aerophobia – fear of flying

• arachnophobia – fear of spiders

• zoophobia – fear of animals

• claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces

There are approximately 500 categorised phobias ranging from specific phobias (fear of specific objects), such as fear of needles to more generalised encompassing phobias such as Social Phobia which is characterised by a fear of unfamiliar people and social scrutiny.

(If your fears are less specific you may be interested in our section on hypnotherapy for anxiety.)

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Hypnotherapy for Phobias

Hypnotherapy is highly effective at treating phobias.

Phobias can be caused by direct trauma, learned behaviour and conditioning. There is also some evidence that we are born with a propensity to fear particular objects (prepared learning).

Using hypnotherapy and NLP techniques, we can modify our learned behaviours and unconscious responses to the objects of our fears and phobias.

We can often treat phobias in just one session using simple yet effective methods that directly eliminate habitual fears. Using regression techniques we can revisit the events that caused the phobia in a dissociated way without having to relive the attached emotion. Once we have accessed the memory, we can modify it and build new resources so that the past event no longer has the same effect on your current life.

Put an end to your fears and phobias now by calling Central London Hypnotherapy.

Please note – Individual results may vary from person to person.

Call Central London Hypnotherapy now on 020 7183 8342.