Anxiety is an emotion most people will experience from time to time. On occasions, it will help you focus or give you an extra boost of energy in crucial moments when you need to perform at the top of your abilities. However, when anxiety is not a temporary state, it can disrupt daily life by causing intense worry, fear or unease and become detrimental to general health and wellbeing.

The way anxiety manifests will be unique to you. It can be experienced as feelings, like excessive fear, restlessness, tension, or thoughts like worries, catastrophising and obsessive thoughts or physical symptoms like panic attacks, racing heart, hot and cold flushes, racing heart, tight chest, shortness of breath, difficulty sleeping or headaches.

Anxiety has many ways to present itself. It can be evident across all areas of your life, or in particular circumstances. Social anxiety, for example, will restrict your ability to interact with the world, while performance anxiety will prevent you from reaching your potential. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way.

At Theta Hub, a certified hypnotherapist and strategic psychotherapist will discuss how this problem affects you. Using strategic psychotherapy, you will learn about the thought and behavioural processes involved to disrupt its occurrence, challenge problem perspectives and find management strategies tailored to you. After the interview, the practitioner induces a state of relaxation and focused attention, after which suggestions are used through stories and imagery to alter perception in a way that improves mental wellbeing. Hypnotic suggestions can provide effective coping mechanisms at the subconscious level. Client collaboration is essential for successful outcomes.