Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching

View Original

An A to Z of issues helped by Hypnotherapy

Jane Pendry

Hypnotherapy can be a helping hand when you most need it. Photo (c) Unsplash Noah Buscher

By Jane Pendry

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

I

  • Identity Issues (acceptance, clarification)

  • Impostor Syndrome

  • Interview Nerves

  • Insomnia

  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

L

  • Low Mood

M

  • Medical phobias

  • 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

P

  • Pacing and Energy Management

  • Pain control

  • Panic attacks

  • Parosmia - damaged sense of smell

  • Perfectionism

  • People pleasing

  • Personal growth

  • 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