Social Phobia treatment, counselling Online or in Brighton, Melbourne Can Change Your Life --- for the Better
Do you have extremely difficulty in social situations? Social phobia, also known as social anxiety, can be really tough. While most feel anxious or stressed before certain social situations, some people exhibit extreme anxiety and panic at the thought of those situations. When that anxiety starts to take over your life, it’s time to act. If you want treatment, I can provide you with the tools and knowledge to help you manage anxiety effectively in your life.
Contact me – Adam Szmerling. I’m a trained psychotherapist, who can draw from experience with many forms of treatment for anxieties, phobias, stress, and fears. I can help you better cope with social situations and reduce the feeling of panic and fear in your life.
How can I help you with social anxiety? I offer face-to-face appointments at my Melbourne-area Brighton counselling clinic and I also offer online counselling sessions with me via a free tool called Skype that allows us to talk via a secure and private connection. I also recommend self hypnosis recordings which can complement treatment. You can download recommended hypnosis recordings from this site to help you overcome social phobia and anxiety by simply listening.
Don’t let social phobia control you and rob you of joy!
Let’s work together to help you combat social anxiety!
How do you know if you have a problem with social anxiety? It’s more than just shyness. There are physical and physiological symptoms of social phobia that could include:
• Intense worry
• Rapid breathing
• Imagining worst case scenarios
• Sleep problems
• Heart palpitations
• Sweating
• Stomach and digestive disturbances, such as IBS
• Twitching
• Trouble breathing
Furthermore, this fear can not only impact how you feel but it could hamper productivity in your life as well as impact upon personal relationships. It can be difficult to express your feelings to family and friends and your lack of participation in social events could cause bitterness and frustration. . And perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this is that others tell yourself, "don't worry", and this results in your feeling even worse.
The good news is that social anxiety counselling help is available and you don’t need to take medication to overcome social phobia. It can often be managed by mindfulness therapy or neuro linguistic programming through changing habitual thoughts and responses, and the causes resolve naturally.
When will I get better?
A lot of people begin to feel better almost the moment they start treatment. The act of taking control of your situation might be empowering enough to make a difference on its own. Not everyone is the same, though, and so treatment types and timelines will vary based on the individual.
How is Bayside Psychotherapy's social phobia treatment different?
Many options for treatment are available to you at Bayside Psychotherapy. Rather than use a homogenous approach to patients needs, I tailor my approach to you using a combination of treatments to help you overcome social anxiety attacks and feelings of panic or stress.
The approach applied depends on what appears like a good fit for you, and may include one or a combination of humanistic person centred therapy, Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation exercises, Existential therapy, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, Dream work, NLP, Hypnotherapy and other methods. I aim to discover what works best for you to manage anxiety and its causes. With my counselling and hypnotherapy treatments (or both) you will soon be on the way to inner peace and real happiness with a blissfully busy social calendar. And to help you get a jump start feel free to download the recommended Stop Social Phobia recording or other helpful social anxiety and phobia titles in the sidebar of this page.
Make an appointment now so you can regain happiness in your life. Call 9530 6353 for a Bayside clinic appointment or make an appointment to meet with me for online counselling via Skype. Your call or email is completely confidential, and there's absolutely no obligation.
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