Seven Phases to Calm Your Nervous System and Prepare for Change
Why this course matters
When you live with anxiety, it can feel as if your body and mind are working against you. You might want to change how you think, feel, and behave, yet despite your best efforts, your system stays on high alert. This is where our Hypnotherapy for anxiety course (pre-therapy) can help you.
That’s because anxiety isn’t just “in the mind.” It lives in the body too. Your nervous system acts like an over-sensitive smoke alarm, going off at the slightest trigger. Everyday situations start the same stress cascade as a genuine emergency. Over time, this keeps you locked in a loop where stress feels normal and calm feels unusual.
Traditional therapy often struggles to take root when your nervous system is in this state. That’s why this hypnotherapy for anxiety course exists, to help you regulate, stabilise, and build the foundation so therapy can bring about deeper and more lasting change.
What this hypnotherapy for anxiety course is
The Hypnotherapy for Anxiety Course (Pre-Therapy) is a structured seven-phase journey. Each phase introduces simple yet powerful practices that retrain your body and mind to respond differently. You’ll learn how to bring your system back into balance, reduce the intensity of anxious reactions, and feel more grounded in daily life.
This isn’t about quick fixes or “thinking positive.” It’s about teaching your nervous system what safety feels like again, so you’re not constantly battling against yourself. By the end, you’ll be more open, receptive, and ready to get the most out of hypnotherapy.
At its heart, this course is about nervous system regulation. When your system is dysregulated, small stresses feel huge, calm feels out of reach, and your thoughts spiral quickly into worst‑case scenarios. By practising regulation, you are showing your body how to return to balance after stress, how to shift out of fight‑or‑flight, and how to reconnect with a calmer state that supports clearer thinking and healthier choices.
What you’ll explore in this hypnotherapy for anxiety course
Each of the seven phases builds on the last, gradually shifting how you experience anxiety:
Phase 1 – Laying the Groundwork
Understand why your nervous system reacts the way it does, and learn how to create the right environment for change. This is about building awareness and setting a strong foundation.
Phase 2 – Breath as a Bridge
Discover how conscious breathing links body and mind. By gently guiding your breath, you can regulate stress, calm racing thoughts, and create balance between tension and release.
Phase 3 – Working with Emotions
Instead of avoiding or being overwhelmed by feelings, you’ll learn to notice and acknowledge them safely. This phase teaches you how to soften emotional intensity and respond with greater ease.
Phase 4 – Finding Glimmers
Practise tuning into small but powerful moments of safety, joy, or connection. These glimmers retrain your nervous system to notice what is good and grounding, not only what feels threatening.
Phase 5 – Body as Anchor
Your body can become a reliable resource rather than a source of fear. In this phase, you’ll use grounding techniques and physical awareness to stabilise yourself in the present moment.
Phase 6 – Releasing Rigidity
Anxiety often locks us into rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. This phase helps you practise flexibility, loosening the need for control, and allowing more adaptive, fluid responses to life.
Phase 7 – Integration and Readiness
Finally, you’ll bring everything together. This phase prepares you for the deeper changes that hypnotherapy can offer, leaving you open, receptive, and ready for transformation.
Why our hypnotherapy for anxiety course works
The course draws on principles of nervous system regulation. Anxiety thrives when your body is primed for danger, even in safe situations. By practising these skills, you’re sending repeated messages of safety to your system.
- Feelings begin to soften — instead of overwhelming you, they become manageable signals.
- Thoughts start to clear — racing “what ifs” lose their power when your body isn’t on high alert.
- Behaviours shift naturally — with less inner resistance, it becomes easier to face situations you once avoided.
This isn’t about forcing change, but creating the conditions where change happens more naturally.
The benefits you’ll notice
By working through the course, you can expect:
- Greater calm in everyday life, even in situations that used to trigger anxiety
- A stronger sense of safety and stability in your body
- Reduced intensity of physical anxiety symptoms such as racing heart, tight chest, or restless energy
- More emotional resilience and ability to sit with feelings without being overwhelmed
- A clearer mind, less tangled in constant anxious thoughts
- Feeling better prepared and more confident when you begin hypnotherapy
Who this is hypnotherapy for anxiety course for?
This course is designed for people who are planning to start hypnotherapy for anxiety, or who are currently in therapy and want to get more out of it. It’s also suitable if you’ve tried therapy before but found it hard to progress because your system resisted change.
How it’s delivered
You’ll receive guided audio sessions for each of the seven phases, along with a workbook that explains the concepts and gives you practical ways to apply them day to day. You can go through the course at your own pace, repeating any phase as often as you like.
Why this course makes financial sense?
Think of this course as preparing the soil. Hypnotherapy works best when the ground is ready to receive it. By calming your nervous system first, you’ll find it easier to absorb suggestions, let go of anxious patterns, and build new ways of being.
This is not a replacement for therapy. It’s the groundwork that ensures when you do sit down for hypnotherapy, your mind and body are ready to change.
Your investment
The full course, including seven guided audio sessions and the workbook, is available for £97. It’s exclusively offered to clients of our practice, new and existing, as a way to make your therapy journey more effective and lasting. In our pilot study, clients that used this course before entering therapy reduced the average number of sessions needed by 25%.
Next steps
If you’re ready to start building the foundation for change, this course is your first step. By calming and stabilising your nervous system, you’re setting yourself up for success when therapy begins.
You’ve already taken one step simply by reading this page. The next is to get started with the course and give yourself the best possible chance for lasting transformation.