Phobia Guru · Clinical hypnotherapy for fears and phobias

Stop planning your life around your fear

When fear starts making your choices

It usually starts small. You skip one flight, put off one appointment, take the long way round. Then it becomes a rule, and the rules keep growing.

Inside, it can feel embarrassing. You know the fear doesn't make sense, which makes it harder to explain, so you laugh it off or find another excuse. That gets tiring.

You shouldn't have to miss a family holiday, a wedding or a health check because of a fear you never chose. Phobias often don't fade on their own, and every year you wait is another year of plans built around it.

What life can feel like instead

• Booking the holiday without dreading the flight
• Going to the dentist or having a blood test when you need to
• Walking into the garden or the loft without checking for spiders first
• Saying yes to plans, instead of working out how to get out of them

Adam helped me get over my fear of flights so I could enjoy flying. I can now take long-haul flights and take holidays. It's changed my life and opened up the world!

Rosa, Edinburgh

Watch people hold a spider for the first time after a workshop at Chessington

Everyone is different, and results vary from person to person.

You're not being silly. I've been there.

If you've tried to talk yourself out of it and it hasn't worked, that isn't a lack of willpower. A phobia is an alarm your mind learned, and logic alone rarely switches it off.

In my late teens and early twenties I lived with crippling anxiety. I was afraid of heights, of speaking in front of more than a handful of people, of social situations and of open spaces. I spent years testing every phobia technique I could find, and I was my own first client.

Since then I've done free-fall skydives, spoken to audiences of hundreds and performed stand-up on London's open mic circuit.

I've spent 17 years in clinical practice, helped more than 1,000 people with phobias and been the hypnotherapist on the Spider Courage course at Chessington.

I hold a Postgraduate Certificate and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, both with Distinction, from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and the University of West London, and I host The Hypnotist podcast, which has passed 20 million downloads.

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Three simple steps

1. Find your fear. Play Fear Finder at the top of the page, or take the free phobia test below. It only takes a couple of minutes.

2. Talk it through. Book a 30 minute consultation call. Use code PHOBIA for half price, £24.50 instead of £49. We'll talk about your fear and whether I'm the right person to help.

3. Start your sessions. Work one to one over Zoom from wherever you live, or face to face in Hertfordshire at the same price. Many clients notice a real change after a single 90 minute session, and longer-standing phobias get a package of three or five so we can build on it.

Ways to work with me

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Ready to stop working round your fear?

Book a consultation call and we'll talk about your fear, at your pace. Use code PHOBIA at checkout for half price: £24.50 instead of £49, or $29.50 outside the UK.

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