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This very common fear can certainly be overcome with the help of hypnotherapy, so long as the client is motivated.
Yes, for example many nursing and medical students have suffered from the fear of blood and needles in the past, but have overcome it and now enjoy successful careers, as you can see from this discussion on “med students who are afraid of blood and still succeed.”
The fear of blood and the fear of needles often go together, but not always. Some people are okay with having injections, but cannot cope with someone having a nosebleed for example. Others cannot stand having any kind of needle stuck into them for any reason.
No. These fears have very little to do with pain- although of course the pain of a needle insertion will increase if your muscles have tensed up due to fear. If the patient is calm and the health professional is also calm and competent, then blood tests or injections hurt very little, and what pain there is will last only moments.
Often this fear is due to a bad experience in childhood. Small children have no idea of time, so whatever they experience feels like it will last forever. So an unpleasant experience is much more traumatic at that age. As adults we can handle an experience if we know that it will soon be over.
Another problem which can affect student health professionals is emetophobia or fear of vomiting, especially of seeing other people vomiting. I also help people with this problem. For more about emetophobia click HERE.
For hypnotherapy sessions for fear of blood and needles I charge £60 per session. How many sessions varies from person to person, as no two people are the same. However you should certainly see significant improvement within three or four sessions.
Just use the contact form below or phone me on 01392574669. If you’re still unsure, you can use this form to ask any questions which I’ve not already answered. I reply to all genuine inquiries with a personal email, not AI-generated and not a sales pitch.
