I am someone who was massively held back by a very strong social phobia – speaking with strangers, or even meeting strangers, was at best deeply uncomfortable, and at worst utterly terrifying. For far too many years.
So I did the logical thing – I pursued a 20 year career in IT with some success (becoming a Fellow of the BCS in the process).
Until one panic attack too many, which forced me to reconsider me life.
So I studied NLP and hypnosis, used those tools to conquer my own fears and phobias, and since 2010 I have helped over 5,000 others around the world to transform their deepest fears into their greatest strengths through my coaching, speaking, books, and trainings.
Clients come to me because they’re scared, live in fear, they suffer. Most take time to talk to me because they lived with fear for so long that it became part of their life – something they just accept. Many have spent a fortune trying to get rid of the fear, and failed. So they understandably flat out refuse to believe that I can help.
And yet, I do.
Over 5,000 times since 2010.
Pages of written testimonials, hours of video testimonials – from people just like you. With me they found a fun, fast way to get rid of their fear. Forever.
Whether its a phobia or fear holding back their career (such as making phone calls, or standing in front of an audience), holding them back as a performer (stage fright, audition anxiety, scared to step up to play a bigger role), or as with so many people a phobia which complicates their life (spiders, flying, heights, dogs, speaking with strangers, dentists, driving, vomit, these are just a small number of the sorts of things people come to be to conquer), it doesn’t have to hold you back a moment longer.
Imagine what life would be like if you were so scared of spiders that you could not even enter a room if you spotted a spider lurking within? To not be able, for example, to go to the bathroom because there was a spider there and nobody else in the house to remove it? That’s got to have rather an impact upon your life!
Liz came to see me about her phobia of flying. She said that even the thought of going to the airport was extremely stressful for her, let alone actually sitting in the plane and taking off. As you can imagine, it was causing a real problem for the family when they went on holidays.
David, like many people in this country (perhaps more than you might at first think), used to suffer from arachnophobia which is defined as an intense and irrational fear of spiders. Of course, even though David knew his fear was totally irrational (he described it as such himself), it didn’t make it any less real for him. As anyone with any phobia will certainly be all too aware, the phobia is irrational but very real and its effects can have quite an impact on the sufferer’s life.
Many people are literally terrified of dentists, to the point of feeling that they’d rather be dead than visit one. That was the position of Matthew, who said when he came to see me – “I have not been able to go and see a dentist (since I was very young), as even the thought of it always filled me with dread and anxiety”
Acrophobia, fear of heights, is one of the most common phobias around. It can be a crippling, debilitating, irrational fear which prevents us from enjoying normal everyday life. It can cause us to avoid even seemingly simple things like walking across a perfectly safe and sturdy bridge – imagine the impact on everyday life when such straightforward actions are impossible or, at best, something which can only be done very slowly, carefully and with a lot of panic.
