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Phobias are relatively easy to treat unless severe trauma causes the phobia. Parts or memory structures create phobic responses in the patient’s experience. Sometimes, beliefs contribute to phobias. Before treating the phobia, I ask the patient to visualize the situation to get some idea about how much pain the phobia causes. Sometimes I ask the patient to guess the intensity of the pain on a scale of 0 (low) to 10 (high). Here is how to treat a problematic phobia.

T: You are prepared to speak. Can you visualize talking to 100 people?

P: Yes.

T: Do you feel the fear?

P: Yes.

T: Focus on that fear. Subconscious, do you see the public speaking phobia?

S: Yes.

T: Can you treat the basis for the phobia?

S: No.

T: Do parts cause the phobia?

S: Yes.

T: Can you treat all the parts that cause this phobia, one after the other, in the correct order?

S: Yes.

I usually ask if the patient can feel the emotion decreasing while thinking about the phobia. Sometimes, the intensity of emotions stops decreasing, which means there is another intervention needed.

T: [Done] Are we finished with the phobia?

S: No.

T: Is there a structure of memories that helps cause this phobia that can be treated?

S: Yes.

T: Please treat the structure and when the structure falls apart, tag and treat each memory element from the structure in the correct order.

S: Yes.

T: [Done] Are you finished treating the phobia?

S: Yes.

T: Are there any self-limiting beliefs associated with the phobias?

S: Yes.

T: Can you treat the self-limiting beliefs until they are false and compose and strengthen self-empowering beliefs?

S: Yes.

T: Is there anything else to do with this phobia?

S: No.

The following is an example of a strategy using the treatment just completed on one issue to treat another issue. This strategy saves time.

T: Can you use the same phobia treatment with the height phobia?

S: Yes.

T: Please do it and indicate when you have finished or have a problem.

S: Yes.

The treatment of simple phobias usually works and demonstrates the capacity of the subconscious to treat painful issues. But with increased intensity of the trauma history causing the phobia, the complexity of the treatment increases. Phobias are not always easy to treat.