Phobia Therapy & Counselling

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT for phobias provides one path to removing the disabling fear out of your phobias. It provides a structured way to work through your fears and helps you to redefine the problem. Many people are prone to false or unhelpful thoughts that feed phobia fears and associated behaviours without even realising it. A cognitive behavioural therapy approach can help you identify such thoughts and replace them with more productive ones. Thus, enabling you to take control of the situation and regain your freedom.

Integrative Psychotherapy for Phobias

Integrative psychotherapy combines effective techniques from psychotherapy, drawing on a variety of therapeutic models which can help people address phobias. Because CBT therapy doesn’t address the impact of your history on the phobia occurrence, integrative psychotherapy can fill this gap. It can help you understand how certain aspects of your history, which are often out of awareness, can also drive the negative thought and behavioural patterns that exacerbate phobia symptoms. Integrative psychotherapy can equip you to identify potential phobia triggers and develop effective strategies to better manage or completely prevent phobia symptoms from occurring in the future.

Exposure Therapy

This therapy is often used to help people become desensitised to the object of their fear. This is a very measured approach which involves gradual exposure to the trigger in a controlled environment that increases over time until it no longer brings about a panic reaction. It can be thought of as a way of teaching your brain not to send a fear signal (and set in motion the resultant physical symptoms) when you are not legitimately in danger.