Hypnotherapy for Anxiety

Anxiety can become consuming, frightening, and severely impact day to day life. It can show up in so many ways, and is often unique to each individual.

Hypnotherapy can be an incredibly fast, and simple solution to many types of anxiety including panic attacks, generalised anxiety, fears & phobias, social anxiety, and panic disorder.

Often, anxiety isn't limited to just one area, or just one symptom.

Anxiety serves a wonderful a purpose of keeping us safe, and preventing us from taking certain action. But, it can wind up becoming over-active, and impact our ability to live freely. Because anxiety can seemingly come out of nowhere, it can easily lead us to believe we can't control it and there is nothing we can do about it. 

The wonderful thing about hypnotherapy, is that is harnesses the same pathway as anxiety. This gives hypnotherapy a powerful ability to heal anxiety as quickly and as easily as it started.

Children and Teens with Anxiety

Children and teenagers have incredible minds. They're creative, curious, and wonderfully open minded. Young minds operate differently to adults, because it's time to learn how the world works, what's safe, what's positive, and how to survive. This provides young minds a superpower in memory, and unconscious behaviours. They learn so quickly, and can un-learn just a quick.

Often, children learn fears very easily because of this. A seemingly normal event such as a parent getting a fright from a spider, has the potential to show them that spiders are not deemed safe, and they should be cautious of spiders. This isn't a conscious decision or thought of course. This rule of spiders lives in their subconscious mind. They don't know why they're afraid of them, because the body takes over and makes that decision. No one sees a spider and considers whether they should be afraid or not before they react, they just react. It's a fast, and unconscious reaction. Just like panic attacks, they come out of nowhere you're left unsure why or where it came from.

Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious and unconscious mind, to update those automatic programmes that are no longer wanted, or needed.

There is a purpose to all anxiety, but often it's an old programme running in the background, that just needs some new information.

If you're considering whether hypnotherapy is right for your child or teen, get in touch for a chat.
Working with children and teenagers requires collaboration, I will work with you, to lead them to a more comfortable tomorrow.