How can therapy help me cope with anxiety?

At the beginning of therapy, we focus on strengthening and stabilising you.

The conversations themselves play a part in this: even if many people doubt it, simply talking about what troubles you can help you let go and make room for change.

We are social beings. When we suffer, we feel the need to share.

I support these important conversations with methods that you can practise between sessions and that many people find calming.

In my experience, it helps a great deal when you discover that you are not helplessly at the mercy of anxiety attacks, but can do something about them.

Alongside these methods, hypnosis can be very useful.

Hypnosis can help you gain more influence over unconscious processes.

Once your distress eases, we turn to exploring the causes of your anxiety.

It is usually important to look at the unconscious reasons why your anxiety developed.

Hypnosis can also be helpful in exploring the causes.

For example, if a frightening situation in childhood plays a role:
in trance, you can turn to the frightened child you once were as the adult you are today, with all the strengths and experience you have gained over the course of your life.

As an adult with all your abilities, you can support that little child in your own way.

While you take care of your inner child in trance, you may notice a sense of relief.

Finally, there is a stabilisation phase, in which we deepen what you have learned and experienced and anchor it firmly in your everyday life.

In this phase, we agree on longer intervals between sessions.

Therapy then ends with a final session.

It matters to me that you are doing well and can enjoy your life again.

The brain is plastic: its billions of nerve cells keep forming new connections,
depending in part on how we think.

Imagine a hill on which water is finding its way down.
The water can flow to the right or to the left.

The more often the water flows to the right, the deeper the channel it carves into the ground, and the more easily it will flow in the same direction in future.

Something similar happens in our brain.

The more often you think negatively or fearfully, the more your neurons connect in a way that makes negative thinking easier, and the harder it becomes to think in a calmer, more positive way.

These patterns largely run automatically, which is why insight alone often does not change them.

Knowing that flying is one of the safest ways to travel, for example, often does not ease the fear.

Hypnosis offers a way of working with these unconscious processes and can help you cope better with fear of flying.

I offer hypnosis for fear of flying in individual or group sessions.