Make Your Positive Life Change Today At The Hertfordshire Wellbeing Centre
Specialist help and treatment to manage the negative feelings arising out of fears and phobias
Fears and phobias are completely manageable
and treatable
and treatable
At the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic, Paul Allenby has worked effortlessly to create a therapeutic approach that works.
This approach to fear and phobia treatment gives sufferers hope that they can develop the tools to manage their anxious feelings in a way that is not only achievable but sustainable.
If
you suffer with a fear or phobia, Paul Allenby has the skill and many years
experience to help you take back control and find effective and workable
solutions.
Paul has worked effortlessly to create a therapeutic approach that works.
This approach gives anxiety sufferers hope that they can develop the tools to manage their anxious, fearful and phobic feelings in a way that is not only achievable but sustainable.
We treat an array of fears and phobias which include:
- Claustrophobia
- Agoraphobia
- Public speaking fear
- Fear of heights
- Fear of driving
- Fear of flying
- Social phobia
- Fear of enclosed spaces
- Fear of public places
- Needle phobia
- Fear of the dentist
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A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger.
If you have a phobia, you probably realise that your fear is unreasonable, yet you still can’t control your feelings.
Just thinking about the feared object or situation may make you anxious and when you’re actually exposed to the thing you fear, the terror is automatic and overwhelming.
The experience is so nerve-wrecking that you may go to great lengths to avoid it.
If you have claustrophobia, for example, you might turn down a lucrative job offer if you have to go in a lift to get to the office. If you have a fear of heights, you might drive an extra twenty miles in order to avoid a tall bridge.
Understanding your phobia is the first step to overcoming it. It’s important to know that phobias are common.
Having a phobia doesn’t mean you’re crazy! It also helps to know that phobias are highly treatable. You can overcome your anxiety and fear, no matter how out of control it feels.
If you have a phobia, you probably realise that your fear is unreasonable, yet you still can’t control your feelings.
Just thinking about the feared object or situation may make you anxious and when you’re actually exposed to the thing you fear, the terror is automatic and overwhelming.
The experience is so nerve-wrecking that you may go to great lengths to avoid it.
If you have claustrophobia, for example, you might turn down a lucrative job offer if you have to go in a lift to get to the office. If you have a fear of heights, you might drive an extra twenty miles in order to avoid a tall bridge.
Understanding your phobia is the first step to overcoming it. It’s important to know that phobias are common.
Having a phobia doesn’t mean you’re crazy! It also helps to know that phobias are highly treatable. You can overcome your anxiety and fear, no matter how out of control it feels.
The belief system that fuels your fear or phobia
Believe it or not but your mind believes that getting anxious or fearful is the right way for you to act in those situations that it believes will be too difficult to manage. Over time, this belief system has become almost impossible to break.
Even though you may have tried to expose yourself to the feared situations you would have experienced negative results which further enhances your minds belief system which fuels your fear or phobia.
As long as you continue to tackle your fear or phobia head on, the more likelihood that your fear or phobia will strengthen in it's intensity and the more you avoid the very things that make you feel the way you do, equally, your fear or phobia will continue to strenghten.
There's no chance in finding effective resolve, right?...WRONG!
Anxiety and fear is a learned response that can be
successfully reversed
It is important to understand that your mind believes that anxiety and fear is the right way to manage some situations, that anxiety and fear somehow has positive benefits and until it learns otherwise, (and until you stop giving in to the negative thinking), it will continue to make you feel the way you do.
Prolonged avoidance techniques are not the way to go. Using such techniques may give you momentary relief from the feelings associated your fear or phobia but is not long term helpful.
Even though you may have tried to expose yourself to the feared situations you would have experienced negative results which further enhances your minds belief system which fuels your fear or phobia.
As long as you continue to tackle your fear or phobia head on, the more likelihood that your fear or phobia will strengthen in it's intensity and the more you avoid the very things that make you feel the way you do, equally, your fear or phobia will continue to strenghten.
There's no chance in finding effective resolve, right?...WRONG!
Anxiety and fear is a learned response that can be
successfully reversed
It is important to understand that your mind believes that anxiety and fear is the right way to manage some situations, that anxiety and fear somehow has positive benefits and until it learns otherwise, (and until you stop giving in to the negative thinking), it will continue to make you feel the way you do.
Prolonged avoidance techniques are not the way to go. Using such techniques may give you momentary relief from the feelings associated your fear or phobia but is not long term helpful.
The effective treatments for fears and phobias
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
One of the main ingredients needed to keep your fear of phobia alive is the negative thoughts we attach to events and situations.
If we can develop the skills to talk back to our 'phobic or fearful mind', relief from the symptoms is almost inevitable.
Once we stop giving in to what our mind tells us then we can make the behavioural changes to take back control.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is endorsed by N.I.C.E, (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), and the NHS as an effective therapy to create sustainable behavioural change.
Whatever the underlying cause of your anxiety is there is one thing for sure...you were not born feeling anxious.
CBT helps to systematically break down our negative thoughts and beliefs that create negative feelings and behaviour.
The huge benefit of the CBT treatment for fears and phobias is that it goes far beyond just talking about how your fear affects you.
It helps you to develop the tools to make sustainable behavioural change.
One of the main ingredients needed to keep your fear of phobia alive is the negative thoughts we attach to events and situations.
If we can develop the skills to talk back to our 'phobic or fearful mind', relief from the symptoms is almost inevitable.
Once we stop giving in to what our mind tells us then we can make the behavioural changes to take back control.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is endorsed by N.I.C.E, (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), and the NHS as an effective therapy to create sustainable behavioural change.
Whatever the underlying cause of your anxiety is there is one thing for sure...you were not born feeling anxious.
CBT helps to systematically break down our negative thoughts and beliefs that create negative feelings and behaviour.
The huge benefit of the CBT treatment for fears and phobias is that it goes far beyond just talking about how your fear affects you.
It helps you to develop the tools to make sustainable behavioural change.
Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis
The feelings of anxiety and fear can be very debilitating. When we get anxious we can lose our ability to see things rationally because our mind is not calm enough to do so.
Hypnotherapy for fears and phobias is a great therapeutic tool to help our clients learn how to naturally create a calmer mind.
Hypnotherapy will teach you relaxation techniques so you can manage the feelings associated with anxiety, fear and panic.
Hypnotherapy helps to create a more positive state of mind. You will be helped to create the mindset of focusing how you want things to be.
With this repetition your mind can help you to create the very things you desire with the guided visualisation techniques. What the mind sees...the mind can achieve.
Hypnotherapy, when used with cognitive behavioural therapy to treat fears and phobias can help you break free from the negative thoughts and feelings you may experience.
The feelings of anxiety and fear can be very debilitating. When we get anxious we can lose our ability to see things rationally because our mind is not calm enough to do so.
Hypnotherapy for fears and phobias is a great therapeutic tool to help our clients learn how to naturally create a calmer mind.
Hypnotherapy will teach you relaxation techniques so you can manage the feelings associated with anxiety, fear and panic.
Hypnotherapy helps to create a more positive state of mind. You will be helped to create the mindset of focusing how you want things to be.
With this repetition your mind can help you to create the very things you desire with the guided visualisation techniques. What the mind sees...the mind can achieve.
Hypnotherapy, when used with cognitive behavioural therapy to treat fears and phobias can help you break free from the negative thoughts and feelings you may experience.
Graded Exposure Therapy
The sure way to overcome a fear or phobia is to do it in a graded way. Our treatments help you to take back control and develop the confidence in steps that are achievable and most importantly sustainable.
Many people who come to the clinic with a fear or phobia worry initially that they are going to be asked to face up to their most feared situation straight away.
At the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic we don't work in this way. We have worked with the graded exposure approach for many years and gets great results..
The graded exposure approach to manage fears and phobias will help you to expose yourself to the least feared situation first.
The purpose of this is to help change the belief system your mind holds as mentioned above.
The more you challenge your minds irrational belief system the easier it will be to take back control and look at your fear or phobia as something you used to have.
The sure way to overcome a fear or phobia is to do it in a graded way. Our treatments help you to take back control and develop the confidence in steps that are achievable and most importantly sustainable.
Many people who come to the clinic with a fear or phobia worry initially that they are going to be asked to face up to their most feared situation straight away.
At the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic we don't work in this way. We have worked with the graded exposure approach for many years and gets great results..
The graded exposure approach to manage fears and phobias will help you to expose yourself to the least feared situation first.
The purpose of this is to help change the belief system your mind holds as mentioned above.
The more you challenge your minds irrational belief system the easier it will be to take back control and look at your fear or phobia as something you used to have.
If you have a fear or phobia, you don't have to put up with it any more
Anxiety, fear or panic are completely treatable. With the effective therapies of counselling, hypnotherapy, (for relaxation techniques), and cognitive behavioural therapy, you can be helped to create effective resolve and take back control to break free from your fear or phobia..
You may have suffered with your fear or phobia for some time and maybe you have a belief that you will always be saddled with the negative feelings.
This couldn't be further from the truth. we have been working with anxiety based problems since 1998 and you can benefit from our considerable experience.
If you are serious about doing something about how you feel, the specialist help available at the Life Change Wellbeing Clinic can help you take back control and stop letting anxiety and fear controlling you.
Paul Allenby
MGHR - MNCS - MCNHC
Hello! My
name is Paul Allenby and I have been in private practice for over 14
years years helping people to find solutions to anxiety based problems including fears and phobias and a whole host of other problems and difficulties.
I have treated well over a 3000 clients and this experience has helped me to devise my effective 3 step programme for change with sustainable results.
I am competent with the use of specialist therapies of counselling, hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy.
I pride myself on the therapy I provide for my clients using effective listening skills, showing empathy and understanding in its nature without judgment.
Registered Therapist
I am a professional, registered and qualified practitioner and a member of the professional bodies listed below.
