FEARfix® can be a risk free and convenient way to access proven professional solutions and conventional and innovative techniques if one is disinclined to shop around for a health professional or counselor that may or may not be helpful.

There is so much provided with the FEARfix® package that it would be impossible not to derive at least the value of one professional consultation. And that’s all that the cost of FEARfix® is.

FEARfix® utilises a number of clever analogies to convey important aspects of these ideas in ways in which the ‘penny can drop’ very quickly indeed.

Features of FEARfix® also include:

Arousal control exercises to develop the skill of self-calming utilising these features:

• Licensed Baroque music pieces that have been scientifically demonstrated* to promote calming of the brain and receptivity to learning (“Superlearning”).
• Training you to access your inbuilt calming-down mechanism (the parasympathetic nervous system).

Hypnosis techniques which allow you to access the power of your subconscious mind are used in the FEARFIX package in a couple of important ways:

• to bolster personal empowerment and issues of self worth
• to diminish any percieved risks holding you back from regaining your life

Mindfulness meditation exercises that are derived from the Buddhist tradition and allow you to foster a present state awareness.

• In this way, you can become adept at living in the moment. This skill can be very important in the recovery process from Anxiety, Panic Attacks & Phobias because a feature of these conditions is a focus on past and future possibilities that create fear.
• Another advantage of this training is to cultivate a mindset of acceptance. This is especially important in regard to the inevitable discomforts of life.

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) which is an innovative new approach in psychology developed by clinical psychologist Dr Roger Callahan. This technique operates utilising the chinese energy meridian system and acupuncture points which are stimulated by way of tapping.

• TFT is wonderfully effective, in most cases, in quickly resolving underlying life issues such as trauma, loss, disruption, abandonment, grief, and the emotional pain from inadequate parenting.
• TFT can also be powerfully effective in directly addressing the actual symptoms of Anxiety, Panic Attacks & Phobias

“Chemical imbalance can be an unhelpful and inaccurate description of anxiety states and panic conditions” says Christopher Semmens, clinical psychologist with over 20 years of professional practice experience in treating individuals with Anxiety Disorders and now presenter of FEARfix®.

“It externalizes the cause, separates the person from the experience, leads to feelings of helplessness, of being in ‘the grip of something’, and being reliant on the blunt instrument of medication - often provided as the only solution” argues Chris while acknowledging that it can have a place in certain cases.

This is why the chemical imbalance explanation for Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Fears and Phobias can be unhelpful and inaccurate:

• It fails to acknowledge that there is actually a person involved here and that person has a history, and that history can often be one of adversity, trauma, loss, disruption and/or abandonment.

• These can remain as unresolved life issues that we push down and then get on with life, and we can thereby be relatively successful and happy.

• If we happen to have a vulnerability to Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fears and Phobias then the unresolved life issues can tip the vulnerabilities into these symptoms – particularly if we are subjected to inordinate stress, unpredictability or disruption to routine.

• Identifying and resolving any such unresolved life issues can be an integral step in comprehensively addressing Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fears and Phobias – something that can’t be achieved by ‘balancing the biochemistry’.

• Fortunately we now have some marvelously efficient, effective and innovative techniques for achieving this, in most cases, thanks to the wonderful discoveries of psychologist Dr. Roger Callahan known as Thought Field Therapy (TFT).

• TFT techniques form an important part of the FEARfix® program.

There are also some important reasons for the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion being an inadequate explanation for Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fears and Phobias:

• It fails to take into account important phylogenetic (the history of the development of the species over very long periods of time) considerations.
This is covered in the FEARfix® program.

• It ‘pathologises’ (pathology meaning pertaining to disease) these symptoms – and while it may seem odd to argue for ‘de-pathologising’ these problems - this is what we do in FEARfix® in assisting people to break the cycle of Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fears and Phobias.

• It interferes with people being able to take a self-management approach to these problems by clearly understanding the role that their inaccurate interpretations of their experience have in maintaining that experience.

• It blocks the possibilities for people to adopt helpful approaches to self-determination like Self-attribution, Self-efficacy and an Internal Locus of Control – concepts that can be very helpful for people in dealing with life issues including Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fears and Phobias.

Why FEARfix®?

“Well I’m looking at retiring in the next few years and the thing is with committed clinical psychologists like me is that you attend all these courses and seminars, you learn all that the experts can teach you, you develop your own effective approaches, you just get better, and better, and better at it – and then … you retire and it’s all lost!

I wanted to preserve it so people can continue to benefit from what I have been successfully doing for so many years

And then I realized that only a small fraction of those people who suffer anxiety, panic attacks, fears and phobias actually ever get any form of help – and much of that help misses the mark.”

Christopher Semmens
Clinical Psychologist
& FEARfix Presenter
about Chris Semmens