Does hypnotherapy work for anxiety?

As I travel to my hypnotherapy appointment, which I am attending for anxiety, I realise I am fretting about it excessively, my heart's beating fast and I'm starting to sweat. This isn't unusual for me. My brain has a tendency to turn even the most mundane of situations into a problem of apocalyptic proportions; a cacophony of 'what ifs', that rise to a crescendo of horror in my mind.


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