Public Speaking / Performance Anxiety
Dr. Dyan has worked extensively with individuals at all levels of success and from many different walks of life, professions, and cultures, in helping them with anxieties about public speaking or performing.
Have your fears and discomforts about performing or public speaking manifested with the following?
Physical symptoms:
- Changes in breathing or heart rate
- Turning red and flushing
- Muscle tension
- Sweating
- Tunnel vision
Cognitive symptoms:
- Forgetting key points or words
- Stuttering,
- Shakey voice
- Tripping over your words
- Talking really fast
- Lots of filler words like “um…”
Emotional symptoms:
- Feeling afraid
- Self-critical and sure you will fail
- Feeling panicky
- Feeling helpless
- Disappointed in yourself
- Frustrated
These types of anxieties can affect actors, directors, students, and even CEO’s. Dr. Dyan has found that by helping individuals to understand the origins of their discomfort, and how the body and mind are communicating, individuals can feel more in control and empowered.
These forms of anxiety symptoms are frequently manifestations of the fight, flight, or freeze response. In her individual sessions with clients, Dr. Dyan often uses her training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® (SEP) to help clients calm their nervous systems and to develop tools to remain at ease and feeling in control.
She has observed that individuals with these types of anxieties seem to respond very well and very quickly to hypnosis for performance enhancement and hypnotherapy for public speaking anxiety. By focusing their attention in certain ways, people can generally redirect the symptoms mentioned above to transform them and then their problems often resolve quickly.
Dr. Dyan loves helping people to learn to use self-hypnosis for anxiety and specializes in teaching people self-hypnosis techniques that they can use on their own for the following:
- Self-hypnosis for fear of public speaking
- Self-hypnosis for performance anxiety
- Self-hypnosis for athletic performance
- Self-hypnosis for sports performance anxiety
- Self-hypnosis for music performance anxiety
- Self-hypnosis for presentations
- Self-hypnosis for pitches
- And more…
When people set a goal to use self-hypnosis for relaxation or to alleviate anxiety, they can easily learn to use self-hypnosis strategies as part of their daily routine.
You can read more in Dr. Dyan’s blog about how she works with these issues.