Any suggestions on clearing panic attacks? I have a client who has severe attacks when driving.
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Any suggestions on clearing panic attacks? I have a client who has severe attacks when driving.
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I use a problem-locating and solving process, which I have put into script form for colleagues who are interested. You can find this script in my book, GREAT ESCAPES III. (See E-store). This script doesn't require that you know what created the particular imprints on the client's mind that are causing the problem; it allows the mind to search for those imprints and change them into something more helpful. I follow that session with a session related to calming anxiety. If you have the Havens & Walters book, Hypnotherapy Scripts: A Neo-Ericksonian Approach to Persuasive Healing, you'll find a wonderful metaphor called "The Quiet Birth", in Chapter 6. It's one of my favorites for any anxiousness, fear or phobia. I follow this with the Direct Approach for Anxiety (Chapter 14), or one of my own