Hypnotherapy used as a part of arachnophobia treatment
A course using hypnotherapy to help people overcome phobias has been highlighted on the BBC website.
Bristol Zoo’s ‘Living With Spiders’ course aims help rid people of arachnophobia, and was created by Simon Garret, who now runs the course with a hypnotherapist and a counsellor.
There are three sections to the course, first a general group discussion about participants fears and how their phobia has affected them, secondly a relaxation session and a talk about spiders, and finally hypnotherapy to help the arachnaphobes combat their fear.
It’s thought a combination of the different techniques helps sufferers to deal with their phobia and combat it when faced with it in every day life.