It’s about updating your brain’s unconscious safety response
Ending Claustrophobia isn't about Fighting Your Fear
The Unconscious Update
Trying to fight fear with top-down methods like willpower and positive thinking is hard and rarely works. What does work is personalized, targeted hypno-coaching. You change the unconscious protective mechanism itself with an Unconscious Update. This means the results are fast, painless, and permanent – noticeable even after your first session. Willpower plays no role. An Unconscious Update gives you the following….
Rapid Change
No months or years of therapy, medication, and coping.
No Willpower Needed
No need to be brave or tough
Designed Exactly for You
Every person is different. I work with you, not a stereotype.
What Usually Doesn't Work
You have probably lived with your fear for most of your life. You’ve done your best to cope, and probably tried one or more of the strategies listed below. And still you find the fear persists. This is not a failing on your part. This is because of the very nature of how fears like yours become established. They are outside your conscious control.
Exposure therapy – Often called the “Gold Standard” for removing phobias. The problem is that it is so brutal most people give up before it can give results.
Talk therapy or CBT – If your fear were logical, you would have gotten rid of it long ago. The fear is an unconscious response that is typically impervious to logic.
Xanax, SSRIs, Benzos, and more – Medication serves to reduce the symptoms of fear, but not the fear itself. Medications can leave you feeling numbed, but do nothing to remove the fear itself. They can also produce side effects, addiction, and more anxiety.
Relaxation exercises, physical exercise, mindfulness – Mindfulness certainly has a place in reducing fear, but it is often not quite up to dealing with a phobia. It can even feel like avoidance.
Daily routines and coping techniques – Coping techniques often feel like bandaids. They are good after dealing with the phobia, but don’t get to the root cause.
No exposure therapy, no drugs - a complete Unconscious Update
Just thinking of that upcoming flight, elevator ride, or MRI scan can cause you to start to panic. As the event gets closer, the symptoms get worse.
It hurts to miss out on things that are important to you, your family and friends.
You are not doing it on purpose. It is an automatic, unconscious response that you had no part in creating. It is an automatic protective mechanism that does not respond to logic. It does respond to retraining, however, quickly and easily.
The solution is not to fight your unconscious protective mechanism, but to help it protect you in a more productive way, without the fear and all the physical reactions. The Unconscious Update that I have developed will help you do that.
Here's how it works...
Step 01
Apply for a Consultation
If you answer the questions on the application, we schedule a call. During the call, we make a mutual decision whether to move forward.
Step 02
We Do The Work
Over 4 online sessions tailored exactly to meet your needs (no generic approach) we change your old unhelpful responses.
Step 03
You Forget Having the Fear
You enjoy a new sense of freedom, no longer trapped by fear. You can now do the things you want and need to do.
Don't take my word for it...
Fear of Spiders - No Longer a problem
“Thank you so much, Shawn! You were able to help me with one session and free me from my fears. I never would have thought it would work so “easily.””
Carole Müller
Luzern
Trauma is now simply an unpleasant memory
“Working with Shawn was an absolutely positive, healing, uplifting, cobweb clearing, beautiful future forward experience! After our first session I felt that I’d accomplished what 20+ years of traditional talk therapy would have done.
Old patterns broken and replaced with peace
“Shawn, is an expert counselor and hypnosist, he help me overcome psychological barriers and also reduce the physical pain that I have been suffering for years. Now I know how to control my mind and thoughts and find peace. I highly recommend him, he is the best!”
Jolanda Niffeler
Retired
What you'll get...
Immediate Free Assessment
In our free consultation call, I will review phobia, let you meet me, and decide whether this is right for you
Money Back Guarantee if not Satisfied
If you don’t feel that your claustrophobia is gone or significantly reduced, get your money back – it’s that simple.
Personalized Sessions
Every person’s situation is different, and our sessions will be taylored to what you need and want
Follow-Up Sessions
You don’t have to change everything in the first session (but you can). We will have follow-ups to make sure everything is going according to plan.
No fear Zoom Coaching
If you are nervous about a Zoom call, I can walk you through that too. That used to be my personal phobia.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I lose control of my mind?
You are in control the whole time. It only works if we work together. You are always aware and can ask questions or open your eyes any time. You actually gain control of yourself, maybe for the first time in a long while.
What if it digs up something I'm not ready to face?
We’re not digging things up unless you want to. It is not necessary to dig up trauma to get over a phobia. But if a trauma is bothering you, we can gently take away its power if that is what you want to do.
What if I can't be hypnotised?
If you have a phobia, you have already been hypnotized for a long time. What we would be doing is un-hypnotising you. You don’t go deep into trance or anything like that. I simply ask you to imagine certain things. It is up to you to do it or not. I’m not asking you to forget your name or bark like a dog.
What if I get stuck in a trance?
Contrary to hilarious movies like Office Space, it is impossible to get stuck in a trance. In the rare cases where people have stayed in a trance longer than usualy, they always say afterwards that they were feeling so good they just didn’t want it stop.
What if it changes me into someone I don't recognise?
Losing a phobia is like losing an aching baby tooth. You don’t change because you lose a tooth. You are still you, just without that one annoying pain. You are much more than your phobia, I can assure you!
What if the fear comes back?
Once you lose an illogical fear, it is hard to get it back. You might remember what you had to imagine to have that fear, but that would be a conscious choice.