Worried About the Dentist?

Easing Anxiety with Hypnotherapy

Dental visits can feel like facing a minor ordeal but with all the drama of a rollercoaster—palms sweating, heart racing over uncomfortable sounds and bright lights. Even if this anxiety is a common visitor hypnotherapy can banish it with surprising gentleness. Anxiety can seem irrational to our conscious brain, especially if you have previously negative associations of visiting the dentist. The lights, the sounds, the smells, the giving over of power to someone else can all be triggers that want to keep us safe and make us put off that next check up.

Through guided relaxation, I can redirect your mind's spotlight from fear to a place of safety, imagining the dentist chair as comfortable as your sofa rather than a trip to Thorpe Park! Hypnotherapy can get you into a different head space, where the harshness fades to background noise, even through the whine of a drill. Hypnotherapy has a proven track record of helping with medical procedures and a trip to the dentist is no different.

With an individualised hypnotherapy approach you will find practical strategies that will turn future dentists appointments from daunting to simply doable. A set of sessions with me will see you facing the dentist with a smile instead of white knuckles.