How Hypnotherapists are helping to Reduce COVID-19 Anxiety

As this year poses many challenges with the Coronavirus pandemic, many people may be feeling extra stressors regarding money, work, social isolation, or health worries. There may be new levels of strain that you’ve never encountered before, which is why it’s so important to develop tools to cope and manage your COVID-19 related anxieties. Hypnotherapy sessions, like those offered at Melbourne Hypnotherapy Clinic, can help you do so.

Why Hypnotherapy?

Since the 18th century, hypnotherapy has been a powerful tool used to aid willing clients to overcome phobias, lose weight, lessen anxiety and depression symptoms, and stop smoking, among much more. Certified hypnotherapists guide the client into a state of relaxation and focus, where they are more receptive to suggestions put forward to them, as well as more easily in touch with the subconscious mind to help discover the root of their issues.

How Hypnotherapy Helps Anxiety

While in a state of hypnosis, you are relaxed yet concentrated, opening up the opportunity to connect with your subconscious, which means you are more likely to be receptive to building healthy habits and coping skills, identifying repressed memories, and changing your mindset.

The relaxation that hypnotherapy induces can also lessen anxiety symptoms, meaning that you might be more open to exploring your worries without the addition of uncomfortable physical symptoms such as muscle tension or breathlessness.

Through brain scans, studies have shown that those who have received hypnotherapy have greater attentiveness, less self-consciousness, and can control their emotions with more ease.

Sessions at Melbourne Hypnotherapy Clinic can provide tools to achieve this, targeting what specific things are causing your anxiety around COVID-19, and how best to overcome them.

Situational Anxiety and Health Anxiety

Like many people around the world, you may have gone from being employed and able to provide for your family, to jobless and concerned about money, or perhaps the lack of social interaction has made you feel lonely and depressed. The continuous stream of bad news may also have you fearing for the future.

This pandemic has affected people in many ways, and if you have not experienced anxiety previously but now do, or your anxiety symptoms have been heightened during these times, you could be suffering from situational anxiety.

Those who have dealt with health anxiety previously — also known as hypochondria — may find this time particularly challenging as well. Even if you haven’t been affected by this previously, with COVID-19 being a new virus, and one that doesn’t have a vaccine or clear treatment, it’s understandable that you might be feeling extra nervous about potentially catching it, making day-to-day activities such as going grocery shopping a trigger for anxiety.

The good news is — hypnotherapy can help with this. By retraining the brain to address and work with the thought patterns that are causing your anxiety, and help you to see the positive even in bad situations, you can develop coping skills that will stay with you for life.

Hypnotherapy in a Pandemic

Due to the nature and severity of the virus, your anxieties may stem around trying to avoid exposure to people outside of your household. While it isn’t always easy to do that, it is easy to be treated for your stress from the comfort of your own home. No more worrying about masks, hand sanitizer, petrol, or parking!

You may be wondering if online hypnotherapy works just as well as face to face? The answer is yes! As long as you have an internet connection, a willingness to be open to the process, and trust for your therapist, then hypnotherapy can be just as successful online as it would be in person.

So, if you find yourself struggling during this time, it’s important to reach out and get help. Melbourne Hypnotherapy Clinic provides both online and in person COVID-safe consultations, so you can choose what works best for you. They also offer downloadable MP3 recordings by clinical hypnotherapist Sonia Devine, targeted to changing how you think and overcoming your fears, which you can listen to in the safety and serenity of your home.