Integrative Hypnotherapy for Death Anxiety


Accepting The Inevitable & Wasting No Time In Living Like You Mean It!

Accepting The Inevitable & Wasting No Time In Living Like You Mean It!

Accepting The Inevitable & Wasting No Time In Living Like You Mean It!

What Is Death Anxiety?

The fear of death and the drive to live exist at the heart of all life.

Is death an end, a transition, or does it simply not exist? If it is a transition, do we remember anything of our previous life? What must it be like to consider that you might, one day, have no memory of the people you love? These big questions can be mind-bending and overwhelming.

There may be a historic basis for your death anxiety. You may have lost someone close to you, or you may have come close to, or interacted with death yourself. On the other hand, you may not fully realise your anxiety is related to death. Perhaps instead that you are anxious and cannot put your finger on why
If the rawness of this fear is wilfully engaged change begins to unfold. The awareness that everything comes to an end can also initiate a deep value for life, motivating you to live purposefully and authentically in the service of others!
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Do You Have Persistent Anxious Thoughts?

Do you ever find yourself worrying about the following?

The impact of death on the living

What will my life be like without him/her?
What will his/her life be like without me?
My life feels empty without him/her
How will I/he/she ever get over this loss?
How will I/he/she survive financially?
How could god/the universe take him/her away from me?
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The impending approach of death

Why do I get scared that I’m going to die every time I become unwell?
Why do I get scared that I’m going to die every time my heart races?
Why am I dying in this place, away from the people I love?
Why is dying so painful?
I could be dead in a few days/weeks/months, how am I going to cope? – impending doom
How can it be that someone as young as me/them can be allowed to die? – against natural order
What about all the bad things I did and good things I didn’t do? – regret/judgement
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The existence, or absence of an afterlife

Is there an afterlife, or parallel life at all? What if there is just nothing?
Will I remember anything of my previous life?
Will I go to heaven, or hell?
Will I be reincarnated as a parasitic wasp, or a domestic cat?
If I knew what was going to happen I wouldn’t be so anxious
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These thoughts are rooted in uncertainty

Come to terms with the uncertainty, then you can get on with living


Signs Of Underlying Anxiety About Death

Anxiety about:

Your health, your existence, or your purpose in life

Feeling:

Socially isolated, depressed, or at a loss

Experiencing:

Panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, phobias, or obsessive compulsions

Do You Ever Find Yourself Worrying About The Following?

The impact of death on the living

What will my life be like without him/her?
What will his/her life be like without me?
My life feels empty without him/her
How will I/he/she ever get over this loss?
How will I/he/she survive financially?
How could god/the universe take him/her away from me?

Persistent Anxious Thoughts

The impending approach of death

Why do I get scared that I’m going to die every time I become unwell?
Why do I get scared that I’m going to die every time my heart races?
Why am I dying in this place, away from the people I love?
Why is dying so painful?
I could be dead in a few days/weeks/months, how am I going to cope? – impending doom
How can it be that someone as young as me/them can be allowed to die? – against natural order
What about all the bad things I did and good things I didn’t do? – regret/judgement

All of these thoughts are rooted in uncertainty

Accept the uncertainty, then you can get on with living

Integrative Hypnotherapy can help you to lean into the uncertainty regarding life and death

The existence, or absence of an afterlife

Is there an afterlife, or parallel life at all? What if there is just nothing?
Will I remember anything of my previous life?
Will I go to heaven, or hell?
Will I be reincarnated as a parasitic wasp, or a domestic cat?
If I knew what was going to happen I wouldn’t be so anxious

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How Integrative Hypnotherapy Can Help With Death Anxiety

My integrated approach to hypnotherapy incorporates…
…personal,
interpersonal,
transpersonal,
conscious,
un-conscious,
cognitive
and
behavioural…
…personal,
interpersonal,
transpersonal,
conscious,
un-conscious,
cognitive
and
behavioural…
…dimensions.
My integrated approach to hypnotherapy incorporates…
…personal,
interpersonal,
transpersonal,
conscious,
un-conscious,
cognitive
and
behavioural…
…dimensions.

Through your participation in my integrated approach to Hypnotherapy, expect your life to infuse with…
…meaning,
authenticity,
autonomy,
resilience,
wellbeing,
satisfaction
and
fulfilment.
What does that look like for you?
How does it sound?
What does it feel like?
Through your participation in my integrated approach to Hypnotherapy, expect your life to infuse with…
…meaning,
authenticity,
autonomy,
resilience,
wellbeing,
satisfaction
and
fulfilment.
What does that look like?
How does it sound?
What does it feel like?
What does that look like?
How does it sound?
What does it feel like?

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A blanket being made in a loom, like components of a meaningful existence woven together as one blanket
What does it mean?

Integrative Hypnotherapy

I am an integrative Hypnotherapist, which means that I integrate a number of different approaches with Hypnotherapy. I have the experience and flexibility to tailor my approach and interventions to meet your needs, helping you to fulfil your goals for therapy.

Person-centred

This approach addresses the fundamental foundation of therapy – a therapeutic relationship that is safe, genuine, empathic, unconditionally positive and client-led. It cannot be underestimated how important this is to the success of all other approaches and interventions

Exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring

These are subsets of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Safe and managed exposure to troubling emotions restructures clients’ limiting beliefs. This can bring about a state of long-awaited equilibrium

Existential therapy

Similarly to mindfulness and exposure therapy, fear, or angst (about existence) is leant into. In transpersonal therapy, fear is not something to be overcome, but to respond to as a motivation for living purposefully and significantly, instead of being reacted to with desperation

Mindfulness

Mindfulness can promote a simple awareness of and presence with an emotional experience, without judgement, or previous meaning-making. This helps to bring about relief through acceptance, making space for emotions to regulate themselves

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a therapeutic tool that can be applied to diverse clinical profiles of clients in helping them overcome obsessive fears of death. Hypnotherapy grants clients access to deeply underlying subconscious fears that may otherwise remain hidden.

Transpersonal therapy

Transpersonal therapy focuses on the importance of transcending the self and exploring personal and spiritual meaning in order to change your relationship with life. In terms of meaningfulness, transpersonal therapy overlaps with existential therapy. In terms of self-transcendence it overlaps with mindfulness.
To learn more about how we might work together to meet your needs and reach goals for therapy, contact me to arrange a free get to know me session