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You do NOT have to suffer from Anxiety
The 1997 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing revealed
that 9.7%, or nearly 1.3 million, of adult Australians suffer from an anxiety disorder
in any 12-month period.
Anxiety Relief and Support at Sydney Hypno
Calm your mind • Restore balance • Reclaim your confidence
Understanding Anxiety
Anxiety can affect anyone — at any stage of life.
It may begin as unease, tension, or restlessness, but can gradually take over daily life, thoughts, and emotions. The good news is that anxiety is both common and treatable.
At Sydney Hypno, anxiety treatment combines evidence-based, integrative therapies — including Clinical and Strategic Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, EMDR, EFT, NLP, Generative Trance, and Somatic Therapy — to create change that is both rapid and lasting.
These approaches work by helping you reprocess and release the underlying patterns that drive anxiety. The aim is not only symptom relief, but genuine transformation — restoring calm, confidence, and a sense of control.
Types of Anxiety and How the SydneyHypno Approach can Help you with Overcoming your Anxiety
Each form of anxiety has its own patterns, but all respond well to skilled, evidence-based therapy that addresses both mind and body.
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
GAD is Persistent and excessive worry about everyday matters
Anxiety about work, family, health, or the future — often accompanied by tension, restlessness, or difficulty concentrating.
Key feature: The worry feels uncontrollable and interferes with daily life.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Treatment for GAD focuses on calming the nervous system and retraining the mind to respond with balance rather than worry.
Clinical Hypnotherapy and Strategic Psychotherapy help reduce overthinking, while EMDR, EFT, and Somatic approaches address the physical tension and stress responses that maintain anxiety.
Clients often notice that the constant “what if” thoughts begin to quieten — replaced by a calm, grounded clarity.
You can learn to feel settled, capable, and calm again.
Panic Disorder
Panic Disorder is Sudden, recurrent episodes of intense fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms such as a racing heart, breathlessness, dizziness, or chest tightness.
Key feature: The fear of future attacks can create ongoing anxiety and avoidance.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Anxiety Relief and Support at Sydney Hypno is designed to break the panic cycle by retraining the body’s alarm system.
Through Clinical Hypnotherapy, Strategic Psychotherapy, EMDR, and Somatic Regulation techniques, and many other modalities, you learn to recognise the early signs of panic and neutralise them quickly.
Over time, the fear of panic subsides — allowing confidence and freedom to return.
Your body can remember calm just as easily as it learned fear.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety is: A powerful fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected in social or performance situations.
Key feature: Everyday interactions — from meeting new people to speaking in groups — can feel overwhelming.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Social anxiety often stems from deeply held patterns of self-protection or past experiences of criticism or exclusion.
Through gentle, targeted Strategic Psychotherapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and EMDR reprocessing, you can release those old emotional imprints and begin to experience social connection with ease and authenticity.
You can feel comfortable being yourself — and confident connecting with others.
Specific Phobias
Phobia is: An intense, irrational fear of a particular object or situation (such as flying, spiders, injections, or heights).
Key feature:
The fear response is automatic and disproportionate to the actual risk. Your risk assessment is hyper focused and in alarm mode.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Phobias respond exceptionally well to targeted Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP techniques that rapidly change the brain’s learned associations.
In a calm, supportive environment, you’ll safely recondition those responses and find freedom from avoidance behaviours.
You can unlearn fear — and rediscover freedom.
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is: Fear or avoidance of situations where escape might be difficult or help might be unavailable, such as being in crowds, travelling, or leaving home.
Key feature: It often develops from panic disorder or chronic anxiety.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Therapy focuses on restoring a sense of safety and control.
Using Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP, EMDR, and Somatic grounding methods, clients learn to regulate their physical reactions and reframe the mental patterns that trigger avoidance.
Progress is paced and collaborative, ensuring confidence builds steadily and sustainably.
Step by step, you can reclaim your independence and freedom.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Separation Anxiety is: Excessive distress or worry about being separated from loved ones or attachment figures.
Key feature: It may include fears of loss, nightmares, or strong physical distress when apart.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
Treatment gently supports the emotional system in developing security from within. Clinical Hypnotherapy, Strategic Psychotherapy, NLP, and inner resourcing work strengthen self-regulation and self-trust, while emotional re-patterning helps you feel connected even when apart.
You can feel secure, even when life requires distance.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is: Persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviours (compulsions) performed to reduce anxiety.
Key feature: The relief is temporary, often leading to a cycle of distress and repetition.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
OCD treatment at Sydney Hypno combines Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP, EMDR, and Strategic Psychotherapy to retrain both the conscious and subconscious mind.
This integrated work helps reduce compulsive urges and reprocesses the emotional drivers beneath them — restoring calm, control, and confidence.
It is possible to quiet the noise and reclaim mental space.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is: A lasting reaction to trauma, marked by flashbacks, hypervigilance, avoidance, or emotional numbness.
Key feature: The body and mind remain on high alert long after the threat has passed.
How Sydney Hypno helps:
PTSD requires sensitive, evidence-based care that honours both the body’s and the mind’s experience. NLP, EMDR, Somatic Processing, Strategic Psychotherapy and Clinical Hypnotherapy work together to release the stuck trauma responses safely and restore a sense of internal safety and calm.
Healing is possible — you can move beyond survival into peace and vitality.
Why Choose Sydney Hypno
Sydney Hypno offers a unique blend of professional expertise and deeply compassionate care. Every session is tailored to you — drawing from clinical and strategic hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, EMDR, EFT, MEMI, NLP, and somatic methods.
This integrated approach allows therapy to remain brief but effective, helping clients create enduring change rather than temporary relief.
Our work aligns comfortably with medical, psychological, and allied-health frameworks — making Sydney Hypno a trusted therapeutic partner for clients, GPs, psychologists, counsellors, physiotherapists, dietitians, and other referrers seeking safe, outcome-focused therapy for their patients or clients. (Working collaboratively with referrers for many years - we know how to support the care that medical professionals provide so our clients get the improvements they seek)
Take the Next Step
Whether you’re seeking help for yourself, or supporting someone in your professional care, anxiety does not need to define life.
At Sydney Hypno, you’ll find integrative, evidence-based therapies that create real, lasting change.
Book your session or professional referral consultation today and begin your path toward calm, confidence, and wellbeing.
People with Anxiety may experience intense symptoms of anxiety when confronted ,
often called triggering events
Common symptoms range form mild to high level and
in some cases may include some or many of the following symptoms:
Excessive &/or irrational fear of a specific object or situation
Avoiding the object &/or situation or enduring it with high levels of distress
Physical symptoms of high anxiety or a panic attack, such as:
Sweating, Rapid heart, heart palpitations, pounding heart
Shaking or Trembling, Chest discomfort or pain
Gastrointestinal upset: Nausea, stomach distress
Hot flushes &/or Cold chills
Muscle tension or muscle weakness, twitching, "freezing'
light-headedness, or faintness, dizziness, unsteady feelings
You do NOT have to suffer from Anxiety
There is help...
Effective
Fast working help
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A better way to be - NOW
At SydneyHypno we are fully committed to helping you by
providing individualised treatment that is helpful in the short term,
with quick long lasting results. that are
cost effective and scientifically validated.
More info about Anxiety Disorders & Fears & Phobias
The 1997 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing revealed
that 9.7%, or nearly 1.3 million, of adult Australians suffer from an anxiety disorder
in any 12-month period.
We are fully committed to providing individualised treatment that is short term,
cost effective and scientifically validated.
Specific Phobia :
Where there is a significant and lasting fear related to the presence of a specific object or situation that often poses little or no actual danger.
Exposure tends to bring about an immediate fear reaction, causing intense anxiety &/or avoidance entirely. (People with a specific phobia may recognise that the fear is excessive or unreasonable yet feel unable to overcome it.)
At a basic level there is a common belief in experiencing any form of :
Pain, Physical/bodily harm, Mental harm, Illness/Disease
with another fear relating to impending death
FYI - Different types of specific phobias, may include:
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Animal phobias: ie. fear of dogs, spiders, snakes, insects, or mice.
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Situational phobias: Specific situations, i.e. flying, driving, riding in a car or on public transport, going in tunnels/over bridges, or of being in a closed-in place, (e.g. elevators)
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Natural environment phobias: E.g. he fear of storms, heights or water & bodies of water.
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Blood-injection-injury phobias: Inc fear of being injured, of seeing blood or invasive medical procedures (inc Dental) , e.g. blood tests or injections. It is quite common for people to experience a fainting response with this phobia.
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Other phobias: These include a fear of choking, vomiting, contracting an illness, falling down, loud sounds, and a fear of costumed characters, e.g. clowns.
People with Specific Phobia will may experience intense symptoms of anxiety when confronted by their fear. Common symptoms may include:
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Excessive &/or irrational fear of a specific object or situation
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Avoiding the object &/or situation or enduring it with high levels of distress
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Physical symptoms of high anxiety or a panic attack, such as:
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Sweating
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Rapid heart, heart palpitations, pounding heart
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Shaking or Trembling
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Chest discomfort or pain
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Gastrointestinal upset: Nausea, stomach distress
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Hot flushes &/or Cold chills
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Muscle tension or muscle weakness, twitching, "freezing'
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light-headedness, or faintness, dizziness, unsteady feelings,
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NB: Anticipatory anxiety, a form of catastrophising, which involves becoming nervous ahead of time - projecting into the future that being in certain situations &/or coming into contact with the object of your phobia leads to avoidant behaviour - putting off going to see a dentist or doctor, not going out due to a fear of seeing a person or an animal - i.e. where a fear of dogs may lead to not getting exercise as you may see a dog.
Phobias are where a fear will start limiting your life, your options, your health,
your potential for a full health involved life
There is a way to be clear of your phobias!
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In Western countries up to 12.5% of the population may suffer from a Specific Phobia at sometime in their life. Phobias usually first appear in adolescence and adulthood but can occur in people of all ages. They are slightly more common in women than in men. Specific phobias in children are common and usually disappear over time. Specific phobias in adults generally start suddenly and are more lasting than childhood phobias. Only about 20% of specific phobias in adults go away on their own (without treatment). The good news is that specific phobias can be successfully treated.
Social Phobia (aka Social Anxiety Disorder)
Social phobia refers to worries & fears around situations involving the potential
for 'judgement" ( evaluation or observation by others).
Social phobia presents as extreme form of shyness where tit may have reached
a level that in is interfering with the person’s life.
Social phobia is not age specific and may occur from early childhood and into older age.
Social phobia leads many to avoid situations involving interactions with others e.g.:
Meeting new people
Talking to people in authority (e.g., boss, teacher, police)
Speaking on the telephone
Speaking in large groups (e.g., meetings, classroom)
Going on dates
Social phobia may lead to avoidance of things such as:
Speaking in public
Working while being watched
Eating or drinking in front of others
Using public restrooms
People with social phobia will also often try to blend in and never call attention to themselves (e.g., calling out in a crowd, event flagging down a moving taxi or bus)
Common Beliefs in Social Phobia
If you have overwhelming thoughts such as:
Will people think I look odd
Will people think this sounds stupid
Will people think I don’t know what I am talking about
I know people will not like me
I think people will think I have bad intentions
Physical symptoms of Social Phobia
If you have some of these physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g., increased heart rate and nausea). Plus also expereince any of these common symptoms that you are concerned about as perhaps others may noticed these:
Blushing
Sweating
Trembling
Having a “shaky” voice
Social Anxiety will start limiting your life, your options for connection,
your health, your potential for a full integrated life
There is a way to get out of your Social Anxiety!
In Western countries social phobia affects around 3-7% of the population in any one year, and up to 13% of the population may experience social anxiety disorder at sometime in their life. It occurs more often in women than men. However, men often seek help, perhaps because they see it as interfering more with their lives.
Social phobia can begin from a very early age (preschool), but it seems to become more common in early adolescence (around 12-13 years). Social phobia is a chronic condition that doesn’t easily change without treatment. Many adults with social phobia report being shy for as long as they can remember.
People with social phobia may also meet criteria for other anxiety disorders, as well as depression and alcohol abuse (in adults).