About Phobias
Break free from fear. Reclaim your confidence.
Phobias can affect everyday life — whether it’s a fear of needles, animals, driving, confined spaces, medical settings, choking, heights, public speaking or something more personal. Even when you logically know you’re safe, the body can react instantly and intensely.
The reassuring truth is that most phobias are learned responses, which means they can be unlearned.
Hypnotherapy for phobias provides a calm, gentle and scientifically informed way to retrain the brain’s fear response. With the right support, you can break automatic patterns of panic and begin responding with clarity and control.
Phobias arise from subconscious patterns shaped by past experiences, perceived threats or reinforced beliefs.
Even when the situation is not dangerous, the subconscious mind reacts as though it is.
Using Solution Focused Hypnotherapy for phobias, Gareth helps you:
Reduce the automatic fear response
Ease physical symptoms linked to panic
Reframe unhelpful thought patterns
Build calm, confident reactions
Strengthen emotional resilience
Respond clearly instead of instinctively
In a deeply relaxed state, hypnotherapy supports your brain in restructuring how it reacts to the phobic trigger — making the reaction less powerful over time.
Gently reduce your emotional response to fear
Release past associations and triggers
Build new, calm behavioural patterns
Strengthen long-term emotional control
Regain confidence in situations that once felt overwhelming
Each session focuses on your strengths and your ability to move forward, without revisiting trauma or discomfort.
As a qualified clinical hypnotherapist, Gareth provides a supportive, non-judgemental space where you can explore your experiences safely.
Hypnotherapy can help with phobias including (but not limited to):
Needle/injection phobia
Animal or insect phobias
Driving phobia
Claustrophobia
Emetophobia (fear of vomiting)
Water or swimming phobias
Height phobia
Medical/dental procedure phobias
Choking phobia
Social or performance-related phobias
Every phobia is unique, and sessions are tailored to your personal experience, goals and pace.
Yes. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy works by calming the fear response and creating new, positive patterns in the brain. Many clients experience significant improvements within a few sessions.
Every person is different, but most people see noticeable progress between 4–8 sessions depending on the severity of the phobia.
No. This approach does not involve revisiting painful memories. Instead, we focus on shifting the brain toward calmness, safety, and rational thinking.
Absolutely. Phobias respond especially well to hypnotherapy — including common fears such as flying, spiders, heights, dogs, social phobia, and medical-related fears.
Yes. It is a gentle, drug-free, and highly safe process that allows you to stay fully in control while in a state of deep relaxation.
You don’t have to live in avoidance or anxiety. Take the first step towards freedom from fear.
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