Helping a Child with Anxiety
Felicity* was feeling anxious about returning to school after a break. She had experienced a friendship issue and this was affecting her enjoyment of school as well as making her feel nervous in class.
Andrea worked with Felicity to tap into her inner strength and positive emotions by creating imaginary defence systems together. Felicity was able to use these in school and is now achieving well.
Helping a Leader Develop
Carrie* was a teacher with lot of additional responsibilities beyond her class. However, she did not see herself as a leader. Andrea worked with her to develop a project and discuss leadership texts. Carrie’s confidence and knowledge grew and the positive change was seen by her colleagues as well as Carrie herself.
Helping an Adult with a Phobia
Ella* was frightened of heights. She had accepted this as part of who she was and managed to avoid locations which made her nervous. Once she had three young children she found herself repeatedly having to be in challenging places and did not want to limit her children’s experiences by avoiding theme park rides, hilltop walks etc.
Andrea helped Ella to locate pivotal childhood moments when this fear began to grow and was able to work with Ella to move past this fear.
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Helping an Adult with Anxiety
Katie* came to see Andrea at the beginning of the pandemic. She was feeling highly anxious, with butterflies in her stomach and nausea a good deal of the time. She didn’t feel able to cope with seeing people and working even after taking the necessary safety precautions.
Andrea helped Katie through a hypnotherapy exercise which gave her an ‘anchor’ to use as needed. Katie reported that she ‘kept thinking about this, but in a really good way’ and this enabled her to complete her work through the difficult covid times.
Helping an Adult with Improved Health
Donna* wanted to lose weight but was finding it difficult to employ the self-control needed. Andrea worked with Donna to reframe her feelings towards certain foods. Donna reported that she was pleasantly surprised to no longer feel attracted towards the hitherto desirable snacks.