Ophidiophobia – Fear of Snakes

Hypnotherapy for fear of snakes

Ophidiophobia is a specific/isolated phobia that’s treatable via personally tailored one-on-one video call sessions. Using a solution-focused approach eliminates the need to find the root cause of your fear to successfully treat it. Therefore, your snake phobia treatment will be non-intrusive and comfortable. The use of hypnosis and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) enables me to help you overcome your fear of snakes in the most relaxed manner possible.

We know having a phobia is not a conscious choice but rather a condition that is maintained below the awareness. For this reason, the use of hypnosis when treating a snake phobia is a huge advantage to us. When in this natural relaxed state, we have access to the subconscious mind that houses the template that triggers irrational fear. Hypnosis, coupled with other advanced phobia treatment techniques, will ensure we conquer your fear directly below the awareness and at its root. The results can be profound and certainly worth the time and effort. Furthermore, the treatment is empowering as the changes you’ll make are completely natural and personal to you as an individual. Gaining lasting control in this manner will mean you won’t be reliant on ongoing therapy or medication to stay calm.

What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a comfortable relaxed state of mind that you achieve naturally every day already. Everyone has lots of experience in hypnosis, but may not realise it because we don’t put a label on it. Ever been so engrossed in a book or a movie that you naturally excluded distractions around you? That’s the same relaxed focus we’ll achieve together in our sessions. It’s perfectly natural, completely safe and enjoyable. Anyone can achieve the basic level we need to ensure you’re nicely relaxed. The work we’ll do together is interactive, so you’ll be fully aware and involved in the process from start to finish.

Treatment is completed in 3 sessions each lasting 1 hour
You can expect to see clear results as our first session together progresses
The treatment’s completely tailored to your personal circumstances
You don’t need to know how your phobia started to treat it
You’ll be provided with a support pack that includes a General Relaxation mp3 as well as useful exercises and guides. These tools can be doubled up to help in other areas of your life too!

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About Ophidiophobia

Fear of Snakes – Phobia Overview

Out of the many animals that could trigger a phobia, a fear of snakes is right up there as one of the most prevalent. If you suffer from a fear of snakes, you’re certainly not alone. Most of the general population don’t particularly like snakes and it’s estimated that about 3% meet the criteria for ophidiophobia.

Physical Symptoms

Breathlessness, dizziness, sweating and nausea are amongst the most common physical panic-related symptoms.

Cognitive Symptoms

Just the thought of a snake can stimulate a person suffering from this fear. Depending on the severity of the phobia, the thought processes and feelings associated with having a fear of snakes can become draining. Common psychological symptoms include:

Fear of losing control or fainting at the sight of a snake
Experiencing dread or hypervigilance if in a location more likely to have a snakes
Feelings of helplessness or embarrassment following an irrational response to seeing a snake

Behavioural Symptoms

A person with ophidiophobia will go to great lengths to limit activities and avoid situations that may bring them into contact with a snake. This may bring some relief, but psychologically, excessive avoidance routines only reinforce the phobia itself. Here are some common behavioural symptoms:

Declining activities such as camping, hiking or visiting a zoo
Being unable to watch documentaries or movies that contain snake footage
Avoiding travel to countries with a higher snake population

Treatment expectations

An advantage of providing specialist treatment is that the service is 100% dedicated to helping people overcome their fears. This means you can be sure the session content and techniques are highly focused to help you eliminate your fear quickly. Hypnotherapy and Neuro-linguistic programming have helped thousands of people overcome their fear in the most relaxed manner possible.

For specific phobias, like your fear of snakes, the treatment is completed in 3 sessions each lasting 1 hour.

Relieve excessive anxiety when thinking of or seeing a snakes
Remain calm when having to deal with a snake
Overcome your fear naturally without the use of medication

Who’s the treatment for?

Being delivered via webcam makes this an extremely convenient way to get your phobia treated quickly and without the need to travel or search for a specialist in your area. The treatment is constructed to help anyone:

That avoids situations or activities due to their fear of snakes
That worries excessively about coming into contact with a snake
That invariably panics at the sight of a snake. Even if just in a photograph
That has tried to overcome their fear (including through therapy) but still suffers from it
That wants to overcome their fear of snakes without the use of medication or any uncomfortable snake exposure therapy

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Having a fear of snakes can really get in the way of life. If your fear prevents you from taking part in activities like traveling or hiking, or you do so but with great distress, there’s good news – an irrational fear of snakes is treatable!

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os in the past to force myself to ‘face the fear’, only to pull out nearer the time as I couldn’t deal with the extreme anxiety (I am otherwise a confident person and don’t suffer with anxiety). I committed myself to a solo in our summer concert this year that I really wanted to do and so was determined to find a solution! I had 3 sessions with Filipe and they were all super helpful in different ways. In the first session he explained about the conscious and subconscious brains and what’s happening when there’s a phobia. He was very understanding about my problem and reassured me it was very common and this helped me to not feel silly about it. He explained the methods he uses and the structure of the next sessions. In the second session we did a series of exercises which were aimed at reducing the hypersensitivity around solo performance - they were really simple but very effective (it was cool how different I felt about the idea of solo performing after the exercises, compared to before). And we did a similar exercise in the third session plus a short hypnosis. I also had an audio file to listen to each night. I’m sure the format of the excercises is likely similar for any phobia, but I felt that Filipe tailored them and the language he used to be relevant to my specific problem and that he really understood what it meant for me. I came away feeling hopeful and better equipped to go through with my performance. My choir concert was a couple of days ago and although I had a bit of panic a few days before and felt a little shakey in our run through, when it came to my solo I only felt ‘normal nerves’ which went as soon as I started singing and then I felt very relaxed and amazingly did not have any panic/anxiety or fear response at all! And I enjoyed it! I’m so glad I decided to have these sessions with Felipe and I’m grateful for his help getting me there. I now feel confident that I can do more solos without experiencing utter panic! 😀 I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend working with Felipe.
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Thank you Filippe. I feel much more confident now about being in situations that would have previously triggered my phobia. I am much more positive now and better able to embrace change. I don’t feel the need to avoid certain situations anymore. Even if I still feel anxiety at times, I know it’s nothing to be afraid of anymore and it won’t balloon into full blown panic.
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I really loved my sessions with Filipe. He was very patient and didn’t think my phobia was silly at all (even at times when I did) he was very understanding and really made me feel like he had a lot of time for me. It’s nice when you feel like someone genuinely really wants to help you. The tactics he gave me along with the science based facts about the brain and the subconscious, really made me think a different way. I feel so much more relaxed. Spiders won’t be my best friend any time soon but at least I can love living again without fear. Thank you! P.s. I even managed to ignore one in my house a week after my first session – that’s results!
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