Manage fears & phobias with Hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT Therapy ~ Bristol & North Somerset
Help for fears and phobias
Many of us have fears about particular objects or situations, and this is perfectly normal and treatable. According to the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, fears are only classified as phobias if they are:
"Irrational, persistent and intense and there is a compelling need to flea or avoid the phobic object or situation."
Whether you have a fear or a phobia, help is here to make life easier. If you can relate to any of the following phobia symptoms, or you just need to work through fear that is holding you back, please read more below about how I can help.
- I experience intense and disabling fear, anxiety or panic about a certain situation, creature, thing, or place
- I spend a lot of time trying to avoid it
- I obsess (worry constantly) that I will encounter it
- It has a big impact on how I live my life on a daily basis
- It affects my ability to function normally
- I recognise that my fear is out of proportion to the danger
- I avoid certain situations and places
- To avoid it I change my daily routine
- Avoiding it causes significant distress
- I use other unhelpful coping strategies such as self criticism, over eating or drinking
- It has stopped me seeking support for other issues, e.g. it stops me seeing the Dr or using the phone
- I’ve experienced at least one of the above symptoms for at least six months
- I suffer from low mood or depression
- I have panic attacks
- I have severe anxiety
Stop letting fears and phobias hold you back
I have worked with various fears and phobias over the years from Dentophobia to Sitiophobiato (phobia of food). I offer unique, finely tuned, tried and tested techniques, including the following:
- Hypnotherapy/ hypnosis
- Solution Focused Coaching
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
- NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- Hypnoanalysis/ Regression Therapy
- Mindfulness techniques
Whether you’ve been suffering from fears and/ or phobias for a long time or you’ve only just recently experienced them please seek help. They are treatable and you can improve with the right support.
With my skills and experience I can help you...
- Identify the root cause of your phobia (where appropriate)
- Break the association between stimulus (situation, creature, thing, or place) and response, so that you can feel calm and in control
- Manage your fear, anxiety or panic
- Positively change the way you live your life on a daily basis
- Function normally again
- Face your fear or phobia when you are ready
- Rationalise your fear
- Prevent your fear or phobia from affecting your daily routine
- Create healthy positive thinking patterns
- Learn how to help yourself
- Lift depression
- Deal with anxiety and worry
- Tap into your inner resources and strengths
- Achieve other life goals more easily
- Release your full potential
- Start living the life you want
How would life be different for you?
Apart from the list above your life may change positively in other ways. A very important first step to overcoming fears and phobias is trying to pinpoint what these are. Take some time now to think about how your life would be different...
How would you know you were free from your fears and phobias?
What would be different?
What would people notice about you?
What would you be doing differently?
Personalised assessment
As I've already said each fear or phobia can be very different for each person. Due to this as part of the free initial consultation, I may ask you to complete an assessment via email, before we even work together. This assessment will be tailored to your specific fear or phobia, where relevant.
Through this process I can establish whether your fear or phobia is something I can work with. Filling out assessments also saves a lot of time in sessions, thus saving you money. It can also increase your self awareness and insight into your issue, which can really help you to move forward.
I feel one of the most important things as a therapist is to understand what is going on for you and what keeps you held back by your fear or phobia. This way I can then work out how to work with you most effectively for positive change.
Tailored sessions
Each fear or phobia is very different and all sessions are tailored, as precisely as possible, to the individual. This is to ensure that you get the most out of sessions.
Together we can work out the best approach for you, e.g. Hypnotherapy, CBT, NLP, Coaching or a combination, depending on your needs or preferences. I use all the information you provide to tailor each session more precisely; the more personalised sessions are (especially in hypnotherapy) the more effective they will be
Working on the conscious and subconscious for permanent positive change
I can use hypnotherapy and at least one other psychological therapy to activate change at both the conscious and subconscious levels of your mind, in a completely safe way:
Hypnotherapy + other psychological/ physical therapy > synchronise your conscious and subconscious for permanent and positive changes
All of my techniques are completely safe and have been shown to be truly effective in improving the quality of people’s personal and professional lives through an exciting journey of self discovery and empowerment.
Fears and phobias I've worked with
As I've already said I've worked with various fears and phobias. This includes toilet phobia/ fear of travel, social anxiety disorder (SAD) also called social phobia, fear of paralysis, death, dentists, failure, flying, dogs, wasps, rejection, food and dentist/ injections.
For more information about how I've helped people please click on the following button and read the relevant testimonials. They can be found under 'anxiety', 'fears and phobias' and 'social anxiety'.
What is the difference between a fear and a phobia?
Fear is an unpleasant emotion brought on by negative anticipation. Almost everyone has a fear of something. This can range from fear of spiders or heights, or something more common such as a fear of failure (e.g. in driving tests/ exams), not being good enough, or fear of dying. Another common fear is of public speaking, which approximately 90% of the population suffer from.
Here are some criteria that define phobias:
- Anxiety is so severe that it interferes with the quality of your life and ability to function
- The fear is out of proportion to the danger
- It lasts for more than six months
Did you know?
Both fears and phobias are NOT a sign of weakness and are more common than you probably think.
Anyone can suffer from fears or phobias at any time in their life and this can be formed around literally anything, which explains why there are so many known fears and phobias. This can be seen by the very long list of fears and phobias below.
How does a phobia develop?
A phobia develops as the result of a learned response to a negative experience. For example, if as a child I had been bitten by a dog I would probably have been very frightened and upset.
Following that experience my subconscious would repress or hide my emotions and develop a phobia to ensure I didn’t get bitten by a dog ever again. The subconscious will take just one experience like this and generalise behaviours of being terrified of something for years and in extreme cases for a lifetime, if there is no therapeutic intervention.
This reflects just how quickly the brain learns a new behaviour and why hypnotherapy can embed a different and more useful behaviour (not to be scared) just as quickly by breaking the association between the stimulus and the response.
Overcome fears and phobias through powerful hypnotherapy
Trying to consciously learn a new behaviour and break the association between stimulus and response is often totally ineffective. This is because the subconscious holds the root cause of phobias, as this is where they are first developed.
So although most people know what has caused their phobia they will still struggle to control and rationalise this at a conscious level and will therefore still experience the phobia. Hypnotherapy taps into the subconscious mind and as such it can be extremely effective at treating phobias, especially as it can get to the root cause of the issue.
The following is a comprehensive list of phobias, in alphabetical order:
A
Abuse: sexual – Contreltophobia
Accidents – Dystychiphobia
Air- Anemophobia
Air swallowing – Aerophobia
Airborne noxious substances – Aerophobia
Airsickness – Aeronausiphobia
Alcohol – Methyphobia or Potophobia
Alone, being – Autophobia or Monophobia
Alone, being or solitude – Isolophobia
Amnesia – Amnesiphobia
Anger – Cholerophobia
Angina – Anginophobia
Animals – Zoophobia
Animals, skins of or fur – Doraphobia
Animals, wild – Agrizoophobia
Ants – Myrmecophobia
Anything new – Neophobia
Asymmetrical things – Asymmetriphobia
Atomic Explosions – Atomosophobia
Automobile, being in a moving – Ochophobia
Automobiles- Motorphobia
B
Bacteria – Bacteriophobia
Bald people – Peladophobia
Bald, becoming – Phalacrophobia
Bathing – Ablutophobia
Beards – Pogonophobia
Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of being severely criticized – Rhabdophobia
Beautiful women – Caligynephobia
Beds or going to bed – Clinophobia
Bees – Apiphobia or Melissophobia
Bicycles – Cyclophobia
Birds – Ornithophobia
Black – Melanophobia
Blindness in a visual field – Scotomaphobia
Blood – Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Hematophobia
Blushing or the colour red – Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Body odors – Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Body, things to the left side of the body – Levophobia
Body, things to the right side of the body – Dextrophobia
Bogeyman or bogies – Bogyphobia
Bolsheviks – Bolshephobia
Books – Bibliophobia
Bound or tied up – Merinthophobia
Bowel movements: painful – Defecaloesiophobia
Brain disease – Meningitophobia
Bridges or of crossing them – Gephyrophobia
Buildings: being close to high buildings – Batophobia
Bullets – Ballistophobia
Bulls – Taurophobia
Bums or beggars – Hobophobia
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons – Scelerophobia
Buried alive, being or cemeteries – Taphephobia or Taphophobia
C
Cancer – Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia
Car or vehicle, riding in – Amaxophobia
Cats – Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia
Celestial spaces – Astrophobia
Cemeteries – Coimetrophobia
Cemeteries or being buried alive – Taphephobia or Taphophobia
Ceremonies, religious – Teleophobia
Changes, making; moving – Tropophobia or Metathesiophobia
Chickens – Alektorophobia
Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people – Teratophobia
Childbirth – Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia
Children – Pedophobia
Chinese or Chinese culture – Sinophobia
Chins – Geniophobia
Choking or being smothered – Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Choking – Anginophobia
Cholera – Chorophobia
Church – Ecclesiophobia
Clocks – Chronomentrophobia
Clocks or time – Chronophobia
Clothing – Vestiphobia
Clouds – Nephophobia
Clowns – Coulrophobia
Coitus – Coitophobia
Cold or cold things – Frigophobia
Cold: extreme, ice or frost – Cryophobia
Cold – Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia
Colour purple – Porphyrophobia
Colour red or blushing – Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Colour yellow – Xanthophobia
Colour white – Leukophobia
Colours – Chromophobia or Chromatophobia
Comets – Cometophobia
Computers or working on computers – Cyberphobia
Confined spaces – Claustrophobia
Constipation – Coprastasophobia
Contamination, dirt or infection – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Contamination with dirt or germs – Misophobia or Mysophobia
Cooking – Mageirocophobia
Corpses – Necrophobia
Cosmic Phenomenon – Kosmikophobia
Creepy, crawly things – Herpetophobia
Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of punishment – Rhabdophobia
Criticism – Enissophobia
Crosses or the crucifix – Staurophobia
Crossing streets – Agyrophobia or Dromophobia
Crowded public places like markets – Agoraphobia
Crowds or mobs – Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia
Crucifix, the or crosses – Staurophobia
Crystals or glass – Crystallohobia
D
Dampness, moisture or liquids – Hygrophobia
Dancing – Chorophobia
Dark or night – Nyctophobia
Dark place, being in – Lygophobia
Darkness – Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia
Dawn or daylight – Eosophobia
Daylight or sunshine – Phengophobia
Death or dying – Thanatophobia
Death or dead things – Necrophobia
‘Fear of death’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“My fear of facing death has significantly reduced resulting in my concerns about my health being less which means I feel I am able to start planning for the future again. I also feel that my sense of control, over the thoughts that were disturbing me, has now doubled.”
Decaying matter – Seplophobia
Decisions: making decisions – Decidophobia
Defeat – Kakorrhaphiophobia
Deformed people or bearing a deformed child – Teratophobia
Deformity or unattractive body image – Dysmorphophobia
Demons – Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
Dental surgery – Odontophobia
Dentists – Dentophobia
‘Fear of dentists’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“I’ve done it- I’ve had an injection. I had to wait for a long time in the dentists waiting room and normally I would have lost my nerve and left but I used all the techniques you’d taught me and kept really calm. I feel this is a major breakthrough for me and I’m beginning to think really differently about my dental phobia.”
Dependence on others – Soteriophobia
Depth – Bathophobia
Diabetes – Diabetophobia
Dining or dinner conservations – Delpnophobia
Dirt, contamination or infection – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Dirt or germs, being contaminated with – Misophobia or mysophobia
Dirt or filth – Rhypophobia or Rupophobia
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth – Automysophobia
Disease – Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia
Disease and suffering – Panthophobia
Disease, a definite – Monopathophobia
Disease, brain – Meningitophobia
Disease: kidney – Albuminurophobia
Disease, rectal – Rectophobia
Dizziness or vertigo when looking down – Illyngophobia
Dizziness or whirlpools – Dinophobia
Doctor, going to the / fer of having medical tests- Iatrophobia
Doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from official – Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Dogs or rabies – Cynophobia
Dolls – Pediophobia
Double vision – Diplophobia
Drafts – Aerophobia or Anemophobia
Dreams, wet – Oneirogmophobia
Dreams – Oneirophobia
Drinking – Dipsophobia
Drugs, new – Neopharmaphobia
Drugs or taking medicine – Pharmacophobia
Dryness- Xerophobia
Dust- Amathophobia or Koniophobia
Duty or responsibility, neglecting – Paralipophobia
Dying or death – Thanatophobia
E
Eating or swallowing – Phagophobia
Eating or food – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten – Phagophobia
‘Fear of food’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“After four hypnotherapy sessions for fear of foodstuffs my fear has gone from a 10 (on a scale from 0-10, 10 being the highest) to a 3. I’m getting on much better with all things food these days. I now eat a much wider range of foods and am much more likely to try new foods. Also I am able to eat out at almost any restaurant and feel ‘normal’.”
Eight, the number – Octophobia
Electricity – Electrophobia
Englishness – Anglophobia
Erect penis – Medorthophobia
Erection, losing an – Medomalacuphobia
Everything – Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia
Eyes – Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Eyes, opening one’s – Optophobia
F
Fabrics, certain – Textophobia
Failure – Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia
‘Fear of failure’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“…my confidence suffered because somewhere a long the way I developed some kind of learned helplessness, whereby, it felt like there was no point in trying anything because I’d never succeed or be good at it (although sometimes I’d try too hard because of fear of failure) – now I do have perseverance, determination and faith in my abilities to do what ever I want. Our life coaching work gave me the initial inspiration and motivation to change and I saw how bad things were (couldn’t have got to where I am without it – was the 1st crucial step, that I probably couldn’t have made on my own).”
Fainting – Asthenophobia
Fatigue – Kopophobia
Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic – Counterphobia
Feathers or being tickled by feathers – Pteronophobia
Fecal matter, feces – Coprophobia or Scatophobia
Female genitals – Kolpophobia
Female genitalia – Eurotophobia
Fever – Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia
Filth or dirt – Rhypophobia
Fire – Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia
Firearms – Hoplophobia
Fish – Ichthyophobia
Flogging or punishment – Mastigophobia
Floods – Antlophobia
Flowers – Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Flutes – Aulophobia
Flying – Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia
Fog – Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia
Food or eating – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Food – Cibophobia
Foreigners or strangers – Xenophobia
Forests or wooden objects – Xylophobia
Forests – Hylophobia
Forests, dark wooded area, of at night – Nyctohylophobia
Forgetting or being forgotten – Athazagoraphobia
France or French culture – Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia
Freedom – Eleutherophobia
Friday the 13th – Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Frogs – Batrachophobia
Frost, ice or extreme cold – Cryophobia
Frost or ice – Pagophobia
Functioning or work: surgeon’s fear of operating – Ergasiophobia
Fur or skins of animals – Doraphobia
G
Gaiety – Cherophobia
Garlic – Alliumphobia
Genitals, particularly female – Kolpophobia
Genitalia, female – Eurotophobia
Germans or German culture – Germanophobia or Teutophobia
Germs or dirt, being contaminated with – Misophobia or Mysophobia
Germs – Verminophobia
Ghosts or specters – Spectrophobia
Ghosts – Phasmophobia
Fear of ghosts Harmony4Life testimony
“So I’m pleased to say that I’m doing well. The work we did together has absolutely changed things for me. Thank you for everything you’ve done, it’s been an incredible change.”
Girls, young or virgins – Parthenophobia
Glass or crystals – Crystallophobia
Glass – Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia
Gloomy place, being in – Lygophobia
God or gods – Zeusophobia
Gods or religion – Theophobia
Gold – Aurophobia
Good news, hearing good news – Euphobia
Gravity – Barophobia
Greek or Greek culture – Hellophobia
Greek terms – Hellenologophobia
H
Hair – Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia
Halloween – Samhainophobia
Handwriting – Graphophobia
Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars – Scelerophobia
Heart – Cardiophobia
Heat – Thermophobia
Heaven – Ouranophobia or Uranophobia
Heights – Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia
Hell – Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Heredity – Patroiophobia
Holy things – Hagiophobia
Home – Ecophobia
Home surroundings or a house – Oikophobia
Home, returning – Nostophobia
Home surroundings – Eicophobia
Homosexuality or of becoming homosexual – Homophobia
Horses – Equinophobia or Hippophobia
Hospitals – Nosocomephobia
House or home surroundings – Oikophobia
Houses or being in a house – Domatophobia
Hurricanes and tornadoes – Lilapsophobia
Hypnotized, being or of sleep – Hypnophobia
I
Ice or frost – Pagophobia
Ice, frost or extreme cold – Cryophobia
Ideas – Ideophobia
Ignored, being – Athazagoraphobia
Imperfection – Atelophobia
Inability to stand – Basiphobia or Basophobia
Infection, contamination or dirt – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Infinity – Apeirophobia
Injections – Trypanophobia
‘Fear of injections’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“I’ve done it- I’ve had an injection. I had to wait for a long time in the dentists waiting room and normally I would have lost my nerve and left but I used all the techniques you’d taught me and kept really calm. I feel this is a major breakthrough for me and I’m beginning to think really differently about my dental phobia.”
Injury – Traumatophobia
‘Fear of paralysis’ Harmony4Life client testimony
“I forced myself to watch a film related to my worse fear- being paralysed. I managed to watch it and accept that it was just a film and felt so much more detached and less anxious than I would have normally. I have less anxieties since our hypnotherapy session and am not so anxious over my kids coming to any harm; life seems so much easier.”
Insanity, dealing with – Lyssophobia
Insanity – Dementophobia or Maniaphobia
Insects – Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia
Insects that eat wood – Isopterophobia
Insects that cause itching – Acarophobia
Itching – Acarophobia
J
Japanese or Japanese culture – Japanophobia
Jealousy – Zelophobia
Jews – Judeophobia
Joint immobility – Ankylophobia
Jumping from high and low places – Catapedaphobia
Justice – Dikephobia
K
Kidney disease – Albuminurophobia
Kissing – Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Knees – Genuphobia
Knowledge – Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia
L
Lakes – Limnophobia
Large things – Megalophobia
Laughter – Geliophobia
Lawsuits – Liticaphobia
Learning – Sophophobia
Left-handed; objects at the left side of the body – Sinistrophobia
Leprosy – Leprophobia or Lepraphobia
Lice – Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia
Light – Photophobia
Light flashes – Selaphobia
Lightning and thunder – Brontophobia or Karaunophobia
Lights, glaring – Photoaugliaphobia
Liquids, dampness or moisture – Hygrophobia
Locked in an enclosed place – Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Lockjaw or tetanus – Tetanophobia
Loneliness or of being oneself – Eremophobia or Eremiphobia
Looking up – Anablephobia or Anablepophobia
Loud noises – Ligyrophobia
Love, sexual love – Erotophobia
Love play – Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia
Love, falling or being in – Philophobia
M
Machines – Mechanophobia
Mad, becoming – Lyssophobia
Many things – Polyphobia
Marriage – Gamophobia
Materialism – Hylephobia
Matter, decaying – Seplophobia
Meat – Carnophobia
Medicine, taking; or drugs – Pharmacophobia
Medicines, mercurial – Hydrargyophobia
Memories- Mnemophobia
Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons – Scelerophobia; Men – Androphobia or Arrhenphobia or Hominophobia
Menstruation – Menophobia
Mercurial medicines – Hydrargyophobia
Metal – Metallophobia
Meteors – Meteorophobia
Mice – Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia
Microbes – Bacillophobia or Microbiophobia
Mind – Psychophobia
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror – Eisoptrophobia
Mirrors – Catoptrophobia
Missles – Ballistophobia
Mobs or crowds – Demophobia, Enochlophobia or Ochlophobia
Moisture, dampness or liquids – Hygrophobia
Money – Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
Moon – Selenophobia
Mother-in-law – Pentheraphobia
Moths – Mottephobia
Motion or movement – Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia
Moving or making changes – Tropophobia
Moving automobile or vehicle, being in – Ochophobia
Muscular incoordination (Ataxia) – Ataxiophobia
Mushrooms – Mycophobia
Music – Melophobia
Myths or stories or false statements – Mythophobia
N
Names or hearing a certain name – Onomatophobia
Names – Nomatophobia
Narrow things or places – Stenophobia
Narrowness – Anginophobia
Needles – Aichmophobia or Belonephobia
New, anything or novel – Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia
Newness – Cainophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Cainotophobia
News: hearing good news – Euphobia
Night or dark – Nyctophobia
Night – Noctiphobia
Noise – Acousticophobia
Noises, loud – Ligyrophobia
Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones – Phonophobia
Northern lights – Auroraphobia
Nosebleeds – Epistaxiophobia
Novelty or anything new – Kainophobia or Kainolophobia
Novelty – Cainophobia or Cainotophobia
Nuclear weapons – Nucleomituphobia
Nudity – Gymnophobia or Nudophobia
Number 8 – Octophobia
Number 13 – Triskadekaphobia
Numbers – Arithmophobia or Numerophobia
O
Objects, small – Tapinophobia
Ocean or sea – Thalassophobia
Odor, personal – Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia, Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Odor, that one has a vile odor – Autodysomophobia
Odors or smells – Olfactophobia
Official doctrine, challenges to or radical deviation from – Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Old people – Gerontophobia
Old, growing – Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia
Open spaces – Agoraphobia
Open high places – Aeroacrophobia
Operation, surgical – Tomophobia
Opinions – Allodoxaphobia
Others, dependence on – Soteriophobia
Otters – Lutraphobia
Outer space – Spacephobia
P
Pain – Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia
Paper – Papyrophobia
Parasites – Parasitophobia
Parents-in-law – Soceraphobia
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth – Arachibutyrophobia
Pellagra – Pellagrophobia
Penis, erect – Medorthophobia
Penis, esp erect – Phallophobia
Penis, erect: seeing, thinking about or having – Ithyphallophobia
Penis, losing an erection – Medomalacuphobia
People – Anthropophobia
People in general or society – Sociophobia
People, deformed or bearing a deformed child – Teratophobia
Philosophy – Philsosphobia
Phobias – Phobophobia
Phobic preferring fearful situations – Counterphobia
Pins and needles – Belonephobia
Pins – Enetophobia
Place: locked in an enclosed place – Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Place, being in a dark or gloomy – Lygophobia
Places, certain – Topophobia
Places, crowded public – Agora[phobia
Places, open high – Aeroacrophobia
Places or things, narrow – Stenophobia
Plants – Botonophobia
Pleasure, feeling – Hedonophobia
Poetry – Metrophobia
Pointed objects – Aichmophobia
Poison – Iophobia
Poisoned, being – Toxiphobia, Toxophobia, or Toxicophobia
Poliomyelitis, contracting – Poliosophobia
Politicians – Politicophobia
Pope – Papaphobia
Poverty – Peniaphobia
Precipices – Cremnophobia
Priests or sacred things – Hierophobia
Progress – Prosophobia
Property – Orthophobia
Prostitutes or venereal disease – Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia
Punishment or flogging – Mastigophobia
Punishment by a rod or other instrument, or of being severely criticized – Rhabdophobia
Punishment – Poinephobia
Puppets – Pupaphobia
Purple, colour – Porphyrophobia
R
Rabies – Cynophobia, Hydrophobophobia, Hydrophobia, Kynophobia, or Lyssophobia
Radiation or x-rays – Radiophobia
Railroads or train travel – Siderodromophobia
Rain – Ombrophobia or Pluviophobia
Rape – Virginitiphobia
Rat, great mole – Zemmiphobia
Relatives – Syngenesophobia
Religion or gods – Theophobia
Religious ceremonies – Teleophobia
Reptiles – Herpetophobia
Responsibility or duty, neglecting – Paralipophobia
Responsibility – Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia
Ridiculed, being – Catagelophobia or Katagelophobia
Rivers – Potamphobia or Potamophobia
Road travel or travel – Hodophobia
Robbers or being robbed – Harpaxophobia
Rooms, empty – Cenophobia or Centophobia
Rooms – Koinoniphobia
Ruin – Atephobia
Running water – Potamophobia
Russians – Russophobia
S
Sacred things or priests – Hierophobia
Satan – Satanophobia
Scabies – Scabiophobia
School, going to school – Didaskaleinophobia
School – Scolionophobia
Scientific terminology, complex – Hellenologophobia
Scratches or being scratched – Amychophobia
Sea or ocean – Thalassophobia
Self, seeing oneself in a mirror – Eisoptrophobia
Self, personal odor – Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia
Self, being alone – Autophobia, Eremophobia, Eremiphobia or Isolophobia
Self, being dirty – Automysophobia
Self, being oneself – Autophobia
Self, being seen or looked at – Scopophobia or Scoptophobia
Self, being touched – Aphenphosmphobia
Self, that one has a vile odor – Autodysomophobia
Semen – Spermatophobia or Spermophobia
Sermons – Homilophobia
Sex – Genophobia
Sex, opposite – Heterophobia or Sexophobia
Sexual abuse – Agraphobia or Contreltophobia
Sexual intercourse – Coitophobia
Sexual love or sexual questions – Erotophobia
Sexual perversion – Paraphobia
Shadows – Sciophobia or Sciaphobia
Shellfish – Ostraconophobia
Shock – Hormephobia
Sin or of having committted an unpardonable sin – Enosiophobia or Enissophobia; Sin – Hamartophobia
Single: staying single – Anuptaphobia
Sinning – Peccatophobia
Sitting down – Kathisophobia
Sitting – Cathisophobia or Thaasophobia
Situations, certain – Topophobia
Skin disease – Dermatosiophobia
Skin lesions – Dermatophobia
Skin of animals, fur- Doraphobia
Sleep – Somniphobia
Sleep or being hypnotized – Hypnophobia
Slime – Blennophobia or Myxophobia
Small things – Microphobia, Mycrophobia or Tapinophobia
Smells or odors – Olfactophobia
Smothered, being or choking – Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Snakes – Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia
Snow – Chionophobia
Social (fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations) – Social Phobia
Society or people in general – Anthropophobia or Sociophobia
Solitude – Monophobia
Sounds – Acousticophobia
Sourness – Acerophobia
Space, closed or locked in an enclosed space – Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia
Space, outer- Spacephobia
Spaces, confined – Claustrophobia
Spaces, empty – Cenophobia, Centophobia or Kenophobia
Spaces, open- Agoraphobia
Speak, trying to- Glossophobia
Speaking – Laliophobia or Lalophobia
Speaking aloud, voices or noises, or telephones – Phonophobia
Speaking in public – Glossophobia
Specters or ghosts – Spectrophobia
Speed – Tachophobia
Spiders – Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia
Spirits – Pneumatiphobia
Stage fright – Topophobia
Stairs or climbing stairs – Climacophobia
Stand, inability to – Basiphobia or Basophobia
Standing upright – Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia
Standing up – Stasiphobia
Standing up and walking – Stasibasiphobia
Stared at, being – Ophthalmophobia
Stars – Siderophobia or Astrophobia
Statements, false or myths or stories – Mythophobia
Staying single – Anuptaphobia
Stealing – Cleptophobia or Kleptophobia
Step-father – Vitricophobia
Step-mother – Novercaphobia
Stings – Cnidophobia or Linonophobia
Stooping – Kyphophobia
Strangers or foreigners – Xenophobia
Streets, crossing streets – Dromophobia
Streets – Agyrophobia
String – Linonophobia
Storm, thunder- Brontophobia
Stuttering – Psellismophobia
Sun or sunlight – Heliophobia
Sunshine or daylight – Phengophobia
Surgical operations – Tomophobia
Swallowing or eating – Phagophobia
Symbolism – Symbolophobia
Syphillis (lues) – Luiphobia or Syphilophobia
T
Tapeworms – Taeniophobia
Taste – Geumaphobia or Geumophobia
Technology – Technophobia
Teeth – Odontophobia
Termites – Isopterophobia
Tests, taking – Testophobia
Tetanus or lockjaw – Tetanophobia
Theaters – Theatrophobia
Theology – Theologicophobia
Things, many – Polyphobia
Things, large – Megalophobia
Things or places, narrow – Stenophobia
Things, small – Microphobia or Mycrophobia
Thinking – Phronemophobia
Thunder – Ceraunophobia
Thunder and lightning – Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia or Keraunophobia
Toads – Bufonophobia
Tombstones – Placophobia
Tornadoes and hurricanes – Lilapsophobia
Touched, being touched – Aphenphosmphobia, Haphephobia or Haptephobia or Chiraptophobia
Trains, railroads or train travel – Siderodromophobia
Travel or road travel – Hodophobia
Trees – Dendrophobia
Trembling – Ttremophobia
Tricinosis – Trichinophobia
Tuberculosis – Phthisiophobia or Tuberculophobia
Tyrants – Tyrannophobia
U
Ugliness – Cacophobia
Undressing in front of someone – Dishabillophobia
Urine or urinating – Urophobia
V
Vaccination – Vaccinophobia
Vegetables – Lachanophobia
Venereal disease or prostitutes – Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia
Ventriloquist’s dummy – Automatonophobia
Vision: double vision – Diplophobia
Voices or noises, speaking aloud or telephones – Phonophobia
Voids or empty spaces – Kenophobia
Vomiting secondary to airsickness – Aeronausiphobia
Vomiting – Emetophobia
W
Waits, long – Macrophobia
Walking – Ambulophobia, Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia
Washing – Abultophobia
Wasps – Spheksophobia
Water – Hydrophobia
Waves or wave like motions – Cymophobia or Kymophobia
Wax statues – Automatonophobia
Weakness – Asthenophobia
Wealth – Plutophobia
Weapons, nuclear – Nucleomituphobia
Weight, gaining – Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia
Wind – Ancraophobia or Anemophobia
Wine – Oenophobia
Witches and Witchcraft – Wiccaphobia
Women – Gynephobia or Gynophobia
Wooden objects or forests – Xylophobia
Words – Logophobia or Verbophobia
Words, long- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia
Work – Ergophobia or Ponophobia
Worms – Scoleciphobia
Worms, being infested with – Helminthophobia
Wrinkles, getting – Rhytiphobia
Writing – Graphophobia
Writing in public – Scriptophobia
X
X-rays or radiation – Radiophobia
Y
Yellow colour – Xanthophobia.
How I can help you...
I can work with you to achieve your goals, whatever they may be… CBT, Hypnotherapy and the other psychological therapies I offer can be tailored to address many issues, so if you would like to work on something that’s not included below get in touch.
- Self esteem and confidence
- Social anxiety
- Interview success
- Public speaking
- Driving and motorbike tests
- Sports and music performances etc
- Depression, postnatal depression and low mood
- Fears and phobias
- Work and business success
- Stress and relaxation
- Peak performance
- Relationships
- Other positive life changes