Anxiety in Work Meetings? Hypnotherapy Can Help

Many people experience anxiety in work meetings. They can feel very uncomfortable. You know that colleagues and clients expect you to contribute, but you can barely speak. And when you do, your memory and lets you down while your body is in fight or flight mode with intense emotions, a pounding heart, and a churning stomach.

Often, to progress in your career, you have to perform well and contribute effectively in meetings. It can be frustrating for co-workers to miss your input to a meeting, as your contribution may be a project’s missing piece or opinion.

Anxiety in meetings can stop you from performing at your best. Learning how to be more relaxed in meetings means you can focus on the job at hand and regulate emotions better. In addition, you can learn how to manage post-event rumination effectively, helping you to reduce the dread you feel about the next meeting.

So many clients have reported that anxiety in meetings prevents them from hearing what others are saying because they become so preoccupied with the intensity of the feelings in their body or what they, themselves, are going to say. Becoming more relaxed in meetings means that you can communicate better, but you can also concentrate and listen well. 

Creating a Toolkit to Manage Anxiety

We work together to create tools that help you feel confident and manage anxiety before, during and after meetings. The tools are the solutions in our sessions, created in the talking therapy part of the session. We address unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that help foster a more positive mindset, and you will learn relaxation tools to help the body calm down and keep that ‘fight or flight’ in check. Using techniques such as positive appraisal post-event has been shown to improve confidence and reassure the brain’s anxiety centre.

Ready to Find Out More?

I have supported many clients to help them manage anxiety in meetings. You can read some of their accounts and stories here.  Please get in touch with me at hello@annettesloly.com or direct on 0117 214 0706 to make an appointment. Alternatively, please fill in a contact form here. Read about the sessions, working online, and keep updated with recent blog posts here.

I am an experienced Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist BA Hons. DHP HPD DSFH CNHC MNCH (Reg). With a lifelong interest in mindfulness, neuroscience, performance and corporate experience, it is my privilege to guide and support clients in building the resilience they need to manage anxiety and stress and ultimately lead happier lives. I have had the pleasure of supporting a range of people from all walks of life in the public and private sectors and in specialist areas of performance psychology – fear of public speaking, stage fright, and optimal performance in the performing arts and sports performance.

“Annette has been fantastically helpful for me; straight from the first session, I was sure that I’d made the right decision in booking a session. She has really helped me transform how I deal with stressful situations. I am now able to take a step back from challenges and think clearly in making decisions. In addition to this, she’s helped me learn relaxation and mindfulness techniques, which have helped me to really develop a feeling of calmness and reduce anxiety. This has had an immense impact on my life as I feel I can now be myself in all situations, without anxiety holding me back.” Jack, 28, Manager