Anxiety Hypnosis

Treating Anxiety Disorders, Phobias & Panic

Anxiety is a normal part of everyday life. Without it we'd not have the ability to take appropriate care in situations where caution is to be advised, or to deal with the constantly changing pressures and dangers of everyday life.

But anxiety is not supposed to be constant force that dominates us and disrupts the quality of our lives, and that is precisely what out-of-control anxiety, in its various 'disorder' forms, does for a large percentage of the population - estimated to be in the order of 15-18% at any time in western populations.

Let's examine the main anxiety disorders you can manage using various forms of anxiety psychotherapy and in particular from anxiety hypnosis, hypnotherapy for anxiety and psychotherapy for anxiety, all of which services are available when you contact Gold Coast Hypnosis.

You may have read about certain aspects of phobias and hypnosis, or perhaps heard about various successful outcomes from hypnotherapy and Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). While some of these topics and, of course, hypnosis for stress and anxiety are quite well known, not everyone is aware of the more specific approaches that can help people effectively manage various forms of anxiety.

Various combinations of hypnosis, hypnotherapy, NLP and psychotherapy (especially Cognitive Bahavioural Therapy - CBT - and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - REBT) can be very effective in the management of a range of anxiety disorders including:

• Perhaps one of the most debilitating forms - Panic Disorder. With its sometimes unanticipated and often unpredictable onset of sudden and severe anxiety symptoms, panic disorder can become quite disabling, if left untreated.


• Agoraphobia- from the Greek meaning 'fear of open spaces or being in crowded market places or the like', takes a number of forms including fear of crowded places and can be triggered by being on highways, being on bridges, standing in queues, and travelling in buses or trains. It can lead to people restricting their area of movement so much that they restrict their lives to home or even a single room within their house.


• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which involves extreme worry andtension from worrying excessively about impending disaster, and/or health, money, career or family issues. Sufferers often realise their concerns are not justified by the situation but nonetheless find difficulty in being able to relax and find peace.


• Social Anxiety, regarded by many experts to be the third most common mental health disorder is sometimes referred to as 'social phobia' is strong fear experienced when faced with the reality - sometimes even the prospect - of social interaction, quite often because of a fear of being negatively judged by other people. It commonly presents as a fear of public speaking, but some extreme sufferers cannot even stand to use a telephone.


• Specific Phobias, which are intense and irrational fears of specific things or particular situations. Lists of specific phobias with unusual and scientific sounding names extend to several pages long, but some of the more common specific phobias include fear of snakes, dogs, flying, speaking in public, spiders, being in open water, heights, lifts or escalators, needles, blood etc. About 10% of western populations have a specific phobia, often first noticed in adolescent year, yet only a fifth of adult-experienced phobias disappear without professional intervention.

Some level of anxiety in life might be normal, but that does not make it easy to tolerate when it goes beyond reasonable and helpful levels in our lives. You can learn more about anxiety in generally by downloading a free e-book (available soon) which gives an overview of anxiety and various approaches to effectively dealing with it.

The good news is relief from anxiety– the return of a feeling of peace and harmony is possible.

Please contact Gold Coast Hypnosis should you need assistance with any of the above disorders.