Phobias involve fear or anxiety that is deemed by an onlooker as excessive or out of proportion to the object or situation. However, for the sufferer, the phobia can be incapacitating and can provoke feelings as strong as terror.

The cause generally relates back to an incident or trauma in the past when the mind has wrongly tagged something as terrifying, e.g. when in the confined space of an aeroplane, receiving an injection, going to a dentist, or a memory of mother screaming at a mouse.

With the help of hypnotherapy phobias can be resolved quickly. Hypnosis can help remove or change the emotional response to the dreaded object or situation easily, and the results can be life-changing.