Anxiety

There are many types or anxieties.

Social Anxiety
Generalised Anxiety
Anticipatory Anxiety
Performance Anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Phobia related Anxiety
Bullying and Harassment related Anxiety
Agoraphobia

You can read more about Social, Generalised and Performance Anxiety.

Anticipatory Anxiety is a fear that is always rooted in the future. It could be due to a life changing event. Perhaps you experienced aggression in your workplace, at your home or in your academic or social setting.

• It could be rooted in a recent critical diagnosis relating to your own, or a loved one’s health.
• It could be related to an upcoming event where you are anticipating a lot of negative possibilities.
• It could be the fear of an anticipated surgery, treatment or outcome.

The first line of treatment is to you quieten your mind and you switch off from your ‘hyper-alert autopilot’ state to restore balance in the ‘here and now’.

I use a number of techniques depending on what the anxiety is related to from visual imagery, meditation, hypnosis and mindfulness.

Depending on the issues triggering this anxiety, we will embark on exploring solutions or desensitisation exposure therapy.

We would also work with goal manifestation techniques rooted in eastern methods of psychotherapy.

Performance Anxiety may be experienced due to an upcoming event, be it a speech, talk, exam or performance.  It is rooted in an outcome focus rather than a process focus.  In doing so, one is distracted from the present and transported to the future which no one knows and therefore presents itself in unpredictable terms.

Fears of ‘blanking out’ ‘freezing up’, ‘making mistakes’ and ‘losing’ entrap the individual in this spiral of negative thinking, therefore generating the negative feelings and negative performance.

It is highly amenable to hypno-breath interventions. Hypnobreath uses the principle of triggering the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems through activation of left and or right nostril breath.

According to Kundalini yogic breathing Left nostril (Ida) breath is calming and relaxing. Done in a correct rhythmic fashion, it induces calm, clarity, relaxation, release of fears and sleep.

Done with the added combination of a hypnotic induction, it induces calm at a subconscious level.

In addition to this sort of psychoimmunoneuro work, we will commence exploration into the thought patterns underlying  anxiety to unpack each layer of thought layer by layer to understand them better to eliminate the anxiety.

We teach you how to let go of being ‘results focussed’ and become ‘excellence focussed”. We then explore all the negative psychological processes that go into the creation of this fear based thinking.

Over the years I have ed many individuals get over their fears of the stage or public speeches and exams. It is a highly rewarding journey as you achieve things you previously would never have dared dreamed of.

Unsure whether you’re dealing with anxiety? Or do you know someone that could benefit from our therapy? Please Contact Us or Book A Session.