An A to Z of issues helped by Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy can be a helping hand when you most need it. Photo (c) Unsplash Noah Buscher
Solution Focused Hypnotherapist & Coach
Published in the Journal in the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists
If you are wondering whether hypnotherapy might help you with your particular and highly specific problem, here’s an A to Z of issues helped by hypnotherapy.
You can find the answers to more Frequently Asked Questions here. Updated 20th June 2024.
How can hypnotherapy help so many issues?
Issues that can be helped by hypnotherapy are all rooted in the fear-based primitive mind, and are linked to anxiety, low mood, irrational fears, and self-limiting beliefs. At it’s simplest, hypnotherapy:
calms the central nervous system
tones the vagus nerve, and
helps people change unhelpful beliefs, patterns of thinking, acting and reacting naturally and relativity quickly.
From General Anxiety to Gen Z
Hypnotherapy helps
Therefore hypnotherapy can help with a surprisingly wide variety of anxiety-based issues.
These include, among many others:
A
Abuse (Overcoming and stabilizing after)
Acceptance (of external factors over which we have no control and limitations)
Acrophobia - fear of heights
Aichmophobia - fear of sharp pointy objects eg needles
Anxiety (managing and controlling)
Arachnophobia - fear of spiders
Arthritis (pain management)
Astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
Athazagoraphobia - fear of being forgotten or ignored
Autophobia - fear of being alone
Autoimmune Conditions (reducing inflammation, calming, pain)
B
Barrett’s Oesophagus (reducing stress and easing symptoms)
Bereavement (acceptance, support, healing through the stages of grief)
Binging (drinking and food)
Bio-psychological Conditions (physical conditions worsened by stress and anxiety)
Blood phobia
Blushing
Boarding School Syndrome - the emotional impact of separation and neglect
Bruxism (teeth grinding)
Bullying
C
Caesarean (calm and prepared)
Casadastraphobia - fear of falling into the sky
Childbirth
Claustrophobia - fear of small spaces
Communication - confidence and presentation
Concentration - improving
Confidence - improving
Coercive Control (recovery from)
Cynophobia - fear of dogs
D
Dental phobia (sometimes requiring Rewind Trauma and other support)
Decluttering
Depression
Digestive Disorders
E
Eating disorders
Emetophobia - fear of vomiting
Erythrophobia - fear of blushing
Exam nerves (and preparing for success)
F
Fears (irrational and overwhelming)
Fertility
G
Gambling
Gaslighting
Glossophobia - fear of public speaking
Grief
Guilt
H
Habits (breaking and creating)
Hoarding
Hypertension
I
Identity Issues (acceptance, clarification)
Impostor Syndrome
Interview Nerves
Insomnia
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
L
Low Mood
M
Memory
Menopause
Migraine
Misokinesia - a sensitivity to seeing others fidget
Misophonia (irrational disgust or anger at another person’s eating or breathing noises)
Military trauma and CPTSD
Mysophobia (fear of germs)
N
Nail biting
Narcissistic abuse
O
Obsessing
Ophidiophobia - fear of snakes
Over-eating
P
Pacing and Energy Management
Pain control
Panic attacks
Parosmia - damaged sense of smell
Perfectionism
People pleasing
Phagophobia - fear of swallowing or gagging
Phobias - simple and complex
Phonophobia - fear of loud sounds
Planning and Organisation
Presentation Nerves
Procrastination
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Public speaking
R
Relationships
Rumination (excessive)
S
Self-Esteem
Scopophobia - excessive fear of being watched
Sexual Problems
Shame
Shyness
Skin problems
Sleep problems
Smoking
Social anxiety
Sports performance
Stabilising (after a major life change)
Stammering
Stress
T
Tension
Tinnitus
Trauma (single event, PTSD and CPTSD - supporting recovery)
Trichotillomania - pulling out hair
Trypanophonia (needle phobia)
W
Weight control and maintenance
Work life balance
Work stress
Z
Gen Z and Millennials (generational stress)
Zoophobia - the fear of animajs
How can hypnotherapy help you?
How can Hypnotherapy Help You?
How many issues can you tick?
How many issues are connected?
Which issue is bothering you most?
What would life be like if you addressed these issues?
What difference would addressing these issues make to your relationships, career and social life?
To find out more, contact Jane for your free initial exploratory consultation by phone or online.
Can hypnotherapy help many anxiety related issues together?
The answer us invariably… YES.
Poor sleep? Anxiety? Irrational fears? Exam stress? Social anxiety? A trauma you carry?
These issues do not exist in isolation and can be tackled all at the same time with hypnotherapy.
Can every Hypnotherapist help with all the things listed here?
Its likely most trained and accredited hypnotherapists can help you with most of the things listed.
However, you’ll notice hypnotherapists do specialise and undertake further training, or continuous professional development, and may have personal experience which underpins their practice. Childbirth, fertility, trauma and some medical conditions might require more training for example. Anyone trained and accredited by the AfSFH will be happy to refer you on if they feel you need more specialised help.
My areas of specialism are anxiety related disorders, including OCD, trauma resolution, complex phobias and emetophobia.
Complementary Practices
Hypnotherapy is a complimentary health practice that uses the body and mind’s own ability to heal, resolve, or help you manage, resolve, and even sometimes transform many specific issues.
No complementary therapy is a substitute for medical care. If you are under the care of a medical professional or psychiatrist, please consult them before working with a hypnotherapist.
Why choose Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a particular school of hypnotherapy that has integrated the key benefits of Solution Focused psychotherapeutic. approaches with safe, suggestion based hypnosis.
Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching and Jane’s gentle, compassionate therapeutic approach tailored to you, your best hopes and aspirations, can help you deal with multiple connected issues together.
To find out how, please contact me for an informal chat.
Jane Pendry
Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching, Online, U.K., Europe & USA
jane@sense-ability.co.uk
Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1XJ
+44 (0)7843 813 883