Hey there everyone! I just wanted to introduce myself and offer a little information for you all. I've been reading the posts on this sub and there are SO many of you I would love to reach out to. I am a clinical hypnotherapist and much of my work is in helping people overcome phobias (what we call a fear that has no root event), fears (those that have a root event) and anxieties based around many, many things. It's very important to understand in yourself what the difference in these 3 are:

Fear: It exists for a reason. ie, a dog bit you when you were young and now you are afraid of dogs. Often the best solution in my work for this is something called circle therapy, a desensitization to the harmful effects of the memory.

Phobia: It exists for no readily available reason. I had arachnophobia that was like this. Zero reason, zero trauma... just a spine freezing phobia of spiders. Different from fears, phobias are often addressed through distancing exercises as exposure can worsen a phobia.

Anxiety: Not to be mistaken for clinical anxiety, being anxious about something is an interesting combination of the two. It can best be defined as a threat you are aware of, but that may or may not have even happened yet. The way this is addressed is a very individual thing.

Driving is probably the second most common that I work with; the first most common being flying. No matter what the issue, working with an educated, experienced hypnotherapist can help you overcome lifelong fears and phobias in a very short amount of time. The way this is done depends on what you yourself are dealing with as what can help a fear can actually make a phobia worse.

I understand what it's like to be afraid of something; overcoming my fears through hypnotherapy is one of the things that inspired me to get my education and open my practice. Please don't take this as an advertisement of my services, though anyone is welcome to reach out to me. My purpose is to let you all know there are options out there, help to be had and where that help can be found.

The subconscious and its associations are everything. It is all, quite literally, in your head. Fortunately, that's also where the answers are.