Common Phobias

These aren’t necessarily the most common phobias in the world, they are simply the ones we see most of in clients.  They are the fear of flying, also known as aviaphobia, heights, public speaking and spiders (arachnophobia)

Flying Phobia

The media is partly to blame for the fact that this is such a widespread and common problem for people.  Every plane crash seems to be reported in detail with close up footage of burning wreckage. And then of course there was 7/11 and most people on planet earth with access to a TV will have watched in horror as the planes plunged into the buildings. The fact is, of course, that flying is still one of the safest ways to travel. For someone with aviaphobia (that’s its ‘proper’ name), the knowledge that flying is statistically a safe activity makes no difference to them whatsoever.  Some people just can’t even consider getting on a plane, the thought terrifies them. Some people do fly but only do so in a state of perpetual dread. It is very possible to cure this phobia quickly and easily, all of us on the JustBeWell team have done so many times. Indeed, one of our favourite things is getting postcards from abroad from people who have happily flown following treatments. A word of advice, though. Sometimes it takes more than 1 hour to sort this so don't turn up on the day of your flight!
More information about treatments and help for flying phobia.

Height Phobia

One of the most common fears we get to help people with is the phobia of heights. This can range from extreme nervousness in tall buildings to utter panic at the thought of going up a flight of steps. Sometimes people even need to be seen on the ground floor!  This phobia is usually better described as the fear of falling. It’s almost universal amongst sufferers of this problem that their real terror is experienced by imagining the physical act of falling, indeed many find themselves actually imagining jumping. These thoughts give them the adrenalin release – the fear.  Find out how we cure the fear of heights

Public speaking phobia

This is easily the one we get to deal with most often. We have given successful treatment for varieties of public speaking fear, anxiety, nerves and full blown phobia, from students too nervous to speak up in seminars, to directors of international companies. No-one is born being frightened of speaking in public, it is a learned behaviour. And the good news is that it does not matter how you became so frightened, the straightforward techniques of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy are very effective at reconditioning the anxiety, or even terror, of public speaking.
Discover how we treat fear of phobia of public speaking.

Spider phobia - arachnophobia

All of us have cured many spider phobias. This link will take you to an article by Tina Taylor who cured 5 severe spider phobias in forty-five minutes on GMTV in Oct 2006. We have been successful even with the most extreme phobics, people who were so scared couldn’t say the word spider out loud, and some who were too frightened to even write it down. This is a one session treatment, normally. Further Information about the fear of spiders