A certain amount of stress is good for you – but that stress has to be manageable and you have to be able to take a break from it. If it is unrelenting it becomes unmanageable and turns into anxiety.

Stress and anxiety often have the same cause but although stress often causes anxiety, anxiety can also exist without external stress! Anxiety, therefore, can arise from outside pressure (stress) or internal pressure (personality conflicts and unresolved issues).

Everyone suffers from stress from time to time and clients who suffer enough to need help usually have a combination of internal and external pressures. External pressure often highlights the unresolved issues that they probably hadn’t noticed, or had been able to control, when life was easy. However, a relative dying, trouble at work, family difficulties etc, etc can suddenly make conflicts that had previously been manageable spiral out of control causing loss of sleep, inability to relax, feelings of dread and all the other unpleasant symptoms that anxiety brings.

In extreme cases this can lead to panic attacks, which are incredibly frightening for the sufferer who feels he or she is about to die.

At St. Helens Hypnotherapy Clinic you will be treated with a combination of counselling and hypnotherapy. Your subconscious knows where your internal problems are coming from and under hypnosis you will very quickly discover these. As soon as you begin to understand your tangle of emotions you will very quickly be able to make them manageable so that you can cope with life again.