Anxiety

Anxiety

• Do you feel like your reactions are different from everybody else's?

• Does your anxiety prevent you from doing things you'd like to do?

• Do you wish you had more control over your emotions?

• Do you often feel embarrassed at your reactions?

• Do you often avoid social situations?

• Do you prefer to have a set routine and stick to places and people you know?

• Do you often feel tired or unwell?

• Do you find yourself feeling anxious about your anxiety?

• Do you feel anxious about particular actions you have to take, such as flying, exams, interviews, presentations?

• Do you worry about other people's negative judgement of you or things you do?

• Do you find that your comfort zone is gradually becoming smaller?

If so, you’ve come to the right place.

 

 

About anxiety

Anxiety has affected at least a third of the population at some point in their lives. 

It is a very important and natural response, which only becomes a problem when it is inappropriately exaggerated, creating phobias, panic attacks, insomnia, physical symptoms such as IBS, insomnia or frequent aches and loss of control. It is likely to worsen when you are feeling tired or experiencing too much stress in your life. 

Factors contributing to an anxiety response may include pressure in the workplace, problems in relationships, or significant milestones such as births, weddings, divorces, etc.

People experience anxiety in a variety of different ways including feelings of irritability, panic attacks and insomnia. Common to most sufferers is a sense of having lost control.

Clients coming for help in understanding and controlling their anxiety often report feeling:

• anxious about their anxiety itself

• angry at themselves for feeling anxious

• embarrassed if others see their anxiety

• worried about passing their anxiety on to their children

 

Techniques that may be used in your therapy session

Sessions will be personally tailored to your individual circumstances and may include:

• Talking therapy

• Clinical Hypnosis / Traditional Hypnotherapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Relaxing visualisations

• Solution Focussed Therapy

• Assertiveness training

• Desensitisation to triggers

• EMDR

• Autogenic Training

• Mindfulness

All of these techniques have proved to be very effective in achieving long-term change.

Besides being very relaxing, hypnotherapeutic techniques can effectively help clients to conquer their anxiety and regain control of their thoughts, feelings and behaviour, also having a knock-on effect on their physiology.

Effective Self-Hypnosis and Autogenic Training will be taught, free of charge, to all clients wishing to empower themselves. 

 

Take the first step

If you've reached this page, it's likely that you're ready to address these issues now – Call 07956 525 587.

By taking control of your anxiety now you can prevent further regrets in the future.

 

It is natural for people who have not experienced talking therapy before to have questions about how it can help them. So that you can feel more comfortable, the first half hour of your initial consultation will be completely FREE OF CHARGE, with no obligation and in total confidence, allowing you to ask questions and ensure that this is the right solution for you.

Sessions to control your anxiety are held in London NW3, N3 or N10

 

Please do call or email now for a confidential, no-obligation chat. 

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Research:

Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders

Self-hypnosis training represents a rapid, cost-effective, nonaddictive and safe alternative to medication for the treatment of anxiety-related conditions... The tremendous volume of research provides compelling evidence that hypnosis is an efficacious treatment for state anxiety (e.g., prior to tests, surgery and medical procedures) and anxiety-related disorders, such as headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. 

Corydon Hammond, D. (2010) Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 10, 2: 263-273 [online] Available at: http://www.expert-reviews.com/doi/abs/10.1586/ern.09.140   [Accessed 10 May 2012].

 

Hypnosis reduces preoperative anxiety in adult patients.

We found that patients in the hypnosis group were significantly less anxious postintervention as compared with patients in the attention-control group and the control group. Moreover, on entrance to the operating rooms, the hypnosis group reported a significant decrease of 56% in their anxiety level whereas the attention-control group reported an increase of 10% in anxiety and the control group reported an increase of 47% in their anxiety. In conclusion, we found that hypnosis significantly alleviates preoperative anxiety.

(Saadat H, Drummond-Lewis J, Maranets I, Kaplan D, Saadat A, Wang SM, Kain ZN (2006). Hypnosis reduces preoperative anxiety in adult patients. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 102(5):1394-6. [online] Available at: http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/102/5/1394.short  [Accessed 10 May 2012].

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Testimonials

  • Anxiety / Stress / IBS / Amenorrhea

    I feel that Sigal was adept at understanding my needs and suggesting a course of therapy that was not only tailored to those needs, but also fell within the natural boundaries of what I felt comfortable doing and fitted with my own philosophy.

    She helped me gain a sense of perspective about myself and my behaviours which I had wanted to achieve for a long time but had not been able to do by myself.

    I feel she provided an invaluable kick-start into a whole new set of behaviours and thought patterns which will help me, not only with occasional crises but also in the day to day enjoyment of life.

  • Performance anxiety

    Having had a successful business career that had allowed me to push the boundaries of my own expectations and interest, and achieve a fantastic balance between work, family and personal interests, a business restructuring meant that I had to form new networks and exposed an underlying lack of confidence in my own abilities. This manifested itself in a number of panic attacks, not simply in formal presentations but sometimes in relatively informal discussions with my peer group. 

    Through discussion with Sigal, I was able to identify what the triggers were to this reaction and to put in place certain tools to work around them. The discussion was in itself one that I found immensely cathartic and allowed me to put the issues that I was facing into context. Crucially, through a combination of self-hypnosis and positive mental attitude, I am now able to put myself in the right frame of mind to overcome these fears.

  • Performance anxiety

    I am thankful and grateful that I found Sigal at a time when I had to work on difficult performance blocks to my acting career.

    Sigal was so easy to talk to, easy to trust, I felt in the hands of a professional from the start. I moved through the issues quickly with her input of different approaches using a variety of methods and shifted a lot in 4 sessions.

    The hypnotherapy technique was relaxing and strengthening, the EMDR was relieving, quick and fascinating. All the different ways of looking at a situation using Cognitive Techniques have stayed with me in a useful way.

    I have recommended Sigal already to several other actor colleagues and I will be coming back when I need to work on things again.