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which are all treatable using hypnotherapy, EFT and other techniques.

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A

Ablutophobia — Fear of washing, bathing, or cleaning

Acarophobia — Fear of itching or the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia — Fear of sourness or things that are sour

Achluophobia — Fear of darkness or the dark

Acousticophobia — Fear of noise or sound

Acrophobia — Fear of heights or high levels

Aeroacrophobia — Fear of open high places

Aeronausiphobia — Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia — Fear of draft, swallowing air, or airborne noxious substances

Agateophobia — Fear of insanity or becoming insane

Agliophobia — Fear of pain

Agoraphobia — Fear of open spaces, leaving a safe place, or crowded public places

Agraphobia — Fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia — Fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia — Fear of streets or crossing the street

Aichmophobia — Fear of needles, pins, or pointed objects

Ailurophobia — Fear of cats

Albuminurophobia — Fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia — Fear of chickens

Algophobia — Fear of garlic

Alliumphobia — Fear of opinions or beliefs

Altophobia — Fear of dust

Amathophobia — Fear of riding in cars

Amaxophobia — Fear of walking

Amnesiphobia — Fear of amnesia

Amychophobia — Fear of scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia — Fear of looking up

Androphobia — Fear of men

Anemophobia — Fear of wind or air drafts

Anginophobia — Fear of angina, choking, or narrowness

Anglophobia — Fear of England, English Culture, or English People

Angrophobia — Fear of anger or becoming angry

Ankylophobia — Fear of immobility of a joint

Anthophobia — Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia — Fear of people or society

Antlophobia — Fear of floods

Anuptaphobia — Fear of staying single

Anxiety — Fear of Anxiety

Apeirophobia — Fear of infinity

Aphenphosmphobia — Fear of being touched

Apiphobia — Fear of bees

Apotemnophobia — Fear of persons with amputations

Arachibutyrophobia — Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachnephobia — Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia — Fear of numbers

Arsonphobia — Fear of fire or flames

Asthenophobia — Fear of fainting or weakness

Astraphobia — Fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia — Fear of stars & celestial space

Asymmetriphobia — Fear of asymmetrical things

Ataxiophobia — Fear of ataxia (muscular in-coordination)

Ataxophobia — Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia — Fear of imperfection

Atephobia — Fear of ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia — Fear of being forgotten, being ignored, or forgetting

Atomosophobia — Fear of atomic explosions

Atychiphobia — Fear of failure

Aulophobia — Fear of flutes

Aurophobia — Fear of gold

Auroraphobia — Fear of Northern lights

Autodysomophobia — Fear of one that has a vile odour

Automatonophobia — Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronics or wax statues

Automysophobia — Fear of being dirty

Autophobia — Fear of solitude, being alone, oneself, or being by oneself

Aviophobia — Fear of flying

 

B

Bacillophobia — Fear of microbes

Bacteriophobia — Fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia — Fear of missiles or bullets

Barophobia — Fear of gravity

Basiphobia — Fear of inability to stand or falling

Bathmophobia — Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Bathophobia — Fear of depth

Batophobia — Fear of heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia — Fear of amphibians, frogs, newts, or salamanders

Bibliophobia — Fear of books

Blennophobia — Fear of slime

Body Dysmorphic Disorder — Fear of having ugly or unattractive features

Bogyphobia — Fear of bogies or the bogeyman

Bolshephobia — Fear of Bolsheviks

Botanophobia — Fear of plants

Bromidrophobia — Fear of bodily odour or bodily smell

Bufonophobia — Fear of toads

 

C

Cacophobia — Fear of ugliness or things that are ugly

Cainophobia — Fear of newness or novelty

Caligynephobia — Fear of beautiful women

Cancerophobia — Fear of cancer

Cardiophobia — Fear of the heart

Carnophobia — Fear of meat

Catagelophobia — Fear of being ridiculed or ridicule

Catapedaphobia — Fear of jumping from high & low places

Cathisophobia — Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia — Fear of mirrors

Cheimaphobia — Fear of cold

Chemophobia — Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals

Cherophobia — Fear of gaiety

Chionophobia — Fear of snow

Chirophobia — Fear of hands

Cholerophobia — Fear of anger or Cholera

Chorophobia — Fear of dancing

Chrematophobia — Fear of money

Chromatophobia — Fear of colours

Chronomentrophobia — Fear of clocks

Chronophobia — Fear of time

Claustrophobia — Fear of confined or small spaces

Cleisiophobia — Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

Cleithrophobia — Fear of being enclosed

Cleptophobia — Fear of stealing

Climacophobia — Fear of stairs, climbing stairs, or falling down stairs

Clinophobia — Fear of going to bed

Cnidophobia — Fear of stings or being stung

Coimetrophobia — Fear of cemeteries

Coitophobia — Fear of coitus, sex, or sexual intercourse

Cometophobia — Fear of comets

Coprastasophobia — Fear of constipation

Coprophobia — Fear of faeces & faecal matter

Coulrophobia — Fear of clowns

Counterphobia — Fear of The preference by a phobic for fearful situations

Cremnophobia — Fear of precipices

Cryophobia — Fear of extreme cold, ice, or frost

Crystallophobia — Fear of crystals or glass

Cyberphobia — Fear of computers or working on a computer

Cyclophobia — Fear of bicycles

Cymophobia — Fear of waves or wave-like motion

Cynophobia — Fear of dogs, canines, or rabies

Cyprianophobia — Fear of prostitutes, venereal disease, or STDs

 

D

Daemonophobia — Fear of demons or daemons

Decidophobia — Fear of making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia — Fear of painful bowels movements

Deipnophobia — Fear of dining or dinner conversation

Demophobia — Fear of crowds

Dendrophobia — Fear of trees

Dentophobia — Fear of dentists

Dermatopathophobia — Fear of skin disease or skin lesions

Dextrophobia — Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Diabetophobia — Fear of diabetes

Didaskaleinophobia — Fear of going to school

Dikephobia — Fear of justice

Dinophobia — Fear of dizziness or whirlpools

Diplophobia — Fear of double vision

Dipsophobia — Fear of drinking

Dishabiliophobia — Fear of undressing in front of someone

Doraphobia — Fear of fur or skins of animals

Doxophobia — Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

Driving Phobia — Fear of driving a motorized vehicle

Dromophobia — Fear of crossing streets

Dutchphobia — Fear of the Netherlands, the Dutch, Dutch Culture

Dysmorphophobia — Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia — Fear of accidents

 

E

Earthquakophobia — Fear of earthquakes

Ecclesiophobia — Fear of churches

Eisoptrophobia — Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia — Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia — Fear of freedom

Emetophobia — Fear of vomiting or throwing up

Enetophobia — Fear of pins

Enissophobia — Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or criticism

Entomophobia — Fear of insects or bugs

Eosophobia — Fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia — Fear of teenagers

Epistaxiophobia — Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia — Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia — Fear of horses

Eremophobia — Fear of being oneself or loneliness

Ereuthophobia — Fear of red lights, blushing, or the colour red

Ergasiophobia — Fear of work, functioning, or Surgeon's operating

Ergophobia — Fear of work

Erotophobia — Fear of sexual love or sexual questions

Euphobia — Fear of hearing good news

 

F

Francophobia — Fear of France, French people, or French culture

Frigophobia — Fear of cold or cold things

 

G

Gamophobia — Fear of marriage

Geliophobia — Fear of laughter

Geniophobia — Fear of chins

Genuphobia — Fear of knees

Gephydrophobia — Fear of crossing bridges

Gerascophobia — Fear of growing old or old people

Germanophobia — Fear of Germany, German People, or German culture

Geumaphobia — Fear of taste

Globophobia — Fear of balloons

Glossophobia — Fear of speaking in public or trying to speak

Graphophobia — Fear of writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia — Fear of nudity

Gynephobia — Fear of women

 

H

Hadephobia — Fear of hell

Hagiophobia — Fear of saints or holy things

Harpaxophobia — Fear of being robbed

Hedonophobia — Fear of feeling pleasure

Heliophobia — Fear of the sun

Hellenologophobia — Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology

Helminthophobia — Fear of being infested with worms

Hemaphobia — Fear of blood

Hereiophobia — Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Herpetophobia — Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things

Heterophobia — Fear of the opposite sex

Hierophobia — Fear of priests or sacred things

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — Fear of long words

Hobophobia — Fear of bums or beggars

Hodophobia — Fear of road travel

Homichlophobia — Fear of fog

Homilophobia — Fear of sermons

Homophobia — Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality, or becoming homosexual

Hoplophobia — Fear of firearms

Hormephobia — Fear of shock

Hyalophobia — Fear of glass

Hydrargyophobia — Fear of mercurial medicines

Hydrophobia — Fear of water

Hydrophobophobia — Fear of rabies

Hygrophobia — Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

Hylephobia — Fear of materialism or epilepsy

Hypegiaphobia — Fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia — Fear of sleep or being hypnotized

 

I

Iatrophobia — Fear of doctors or going to the doctor

Ichthyophobia — Fear of fish

Ideophobia — Fear of ideas

Illyngophobia — Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down

Insomnia — Fear of Inability to Sleep

Iophobia — Fear of poison

Isopterophobia — Fear of termites, insects that eat wood

 

J

Japanophobia — Fear of Japanese

Judeophobia — Fear of Jewish People

 

K

Kakorrhaphiophobia — Fear of failure or defeat

Kenophobia — Fear of voids or empty spaces

Kinesophobia — Fear of movement or motion

Koinoniphobia — Fear of rooms

Kolpophobia — Fear of genitals, particularly female

Kopophobia — Fear of fatigue

Kosmikophobia — Fear of cosmic phenomenon

Kyphophobia — Fear of stooping

 

L

Lachanophobia — Fear of vegetables

Lalophobia — Fear of speaking

Lepraphobia — Fear of leprosy

Leukophobia — Fear of the colour white

Levophobia — Fear of things to the left side of the body

Ligyrophobia — Fear of loud noises

Lilapsophobia — Fear of tornado or hurricanes

Limnophobia — Fear of lakes

Linonophobia — Fear of string

Liticaphobia — Fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia — Fear of childbirth

Logizomechanophobia — Fear of computers

Logophobia — Fear of words

Luiphobia — Fear syphilis

Lutraphobia — Fear of otters

 

M

Macrophobia — Fear of long waits

Mageirocophobia — Fear of cooking

Malaxophobia — Fear of love play

Maniaphobia — Fear of insanity

Mastigophobia — Fear of punishment

Mechanophobia — Fear of machines

Medomalacuphobia — Fear of losing an erection

Medorthophobia — Fear of an erect penis

Megalophobia — Fear of large things

Melanophobia — Fear of the colour black

Melophobia — Fear of music

Meningitophobia — Fear of brain disease

Menophobia — Fear of menstruation

Merinthophobia — Fear of being bound or tied up

Metallophobia — Fear of metal

Metathesiophobia — Fear of changes

Meteorophobia — Fear of meteors

Metrophobia — Fear of poetry

Microbiophobia — Fear of microbes

Microphobia — Fear of small things

Misophobia — Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs

Mnemophobia — Fear of memories

Monopathophobia — Fear of definite disease

Motorphobia — Fear of automobiles

Mottephobia — Fear of moths

Murophobia — Fear of mice

Mycophobia — Fear of mushrooms

Myrmecophobia — Fear of ants

Mythophobia — Fear of myths, stories, or false statements

 

N

Narcissistic Personality Disorder — Fear of -

Necrophobia — Fear of death or dead things

Neopharmaphobia — Fear of new drugs

Nephophobia — Fear of clouds

Noctiphobia — Fear of the night

Nomatophobia — Fear of names

Nosocomephobia — Fear of hospitals

Nosophobia — Fear of becoming ill

Nostophobia — Fear of returning home

Novercaphobia — Fear of your step-mother

Nucleomituphobia — Fear of nuclear weapons

Nudophobia — Fear of nudity or nakedness

Nyctohylophobia — Fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night

 

O

Obesophobia — Fear of gaining weight

Ochlophobia — Fear of crowds or mobs

Ochophobia — Fear of vehicles

Octophobia — Fear of the figure 8

Odontophobia — Fear of teeth or dental surgery

Oenophobia — Fear of wines

Oikophobia — Fear of houses, home surroundings, or being in a house

Olfactophobia — Fear of smells

Ombrophobia — Fear of rain or of being rained on

Ommatophobia — Fear of eyes

Oneirogmophobia — Fear of wet dreams

Oneirophobia — Fear of dreams

Onomatophobia — Fear of hearing a certain word or of names

Ophidiophobia — Fear of snakes

Ophthalmophobia — Fear of being stared at

Opiophobia — Fear of medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients

Optophobia — Fear of opening one's eyes

Ornithophobia — Fear of birds

Orthophobia — Fear of property

Ostraconophobia — Fear of shellfish

Ouranophobia — Fear of heaven

 

P

Pagophobia — Fear of ice or frost

Panophobia — Fear of everything

Panthophobia — Fear of suffering or disease

Papaphobia — Fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia — Fear of paper

Paralipophobia — Fear of neglecting duty or neglecting responsibility

Paraphobia — Fear of sexual perversion

Parasitophobia — Fear of parasites

Paraskavedekatriaphobia — Fear of Friday the 13th

Parthenophobia — Fear of virgins or young girls

Pathophobia — Fear of disease

Patroiophobia — Fear of heredity

Peccatophobia — Fear of sinning

Pediculophobia — Fear of lice

Pediophobia — Fear of dolls

Pedophobia — Fear of children

Peladophobia — Fear of bald people

Pellagrophobia — Fear of pellagra

Peniaphobia — Fear of poverty

Pentheraphobia — Fear of mother-in-law

Phagophobia — Fear of swallowing or eating

Phalacrophobia — Fear of becoming bald

Pharmacophobia — Fear of taking medicine or drugs

Phengophobia — Fear of daylight or sunshine

Philemaphobia — Fear of kissing

Philophobia — Fear of falling in love or being in love

Philosophobia — Fear of philosophy

Phobophobia — Fear of phobias

Phonophobia — Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice, or telephones

Photoaugliaphobia — Fear of glaring lights

Photophobia — Fear of light

Phronemophobia — Fear of thinking

Phthisiophobia — Fear of tuberculosis

Placophobia — Fear of tombstones

Plutophobia — Fear of wealth

Pneumatiphobia — Fear of spirits

Pnigerophobia — Fear of choking or of being smothered

Pogonophobia — Fear of beards

Poliosophobia — Fear of contracting poliomyelitis

Politicophobia — Fear of politicians

Polyphobia — Fear of many things

Ponophobia — Fear of overworking or of pain

Porphyrophobia — Fear of the colour purple

Potamophobia — Fear of rivers or running water

Potophobia — Fear of alcohol

Proctophobia — Fear of rectums

Prosophobia — Fear of progress

Psellismophobia — Fear of stuttering

Psychophobia — Fear of the mind

Psychrophobia — Fear of the cold

Pteromerhanophobia — Fear of flying

Pteronophobia — Fear of being tickled by feathers

Pupaphobia — Fear of puppets

Pyrexiophobia — Fear of fever

 

R

Radiophobia — Fear of radiation or x-rays

Ranidaphobia — Fear of frogs

Rectophobia — Fear of rectums or rectal diseases

Rhabdophobia — Fear of being severely punished, beaten by a rod, or severely criticized

Rhypophobia — Fear of defecation

Rhytiphobia — Fear of getting wrinkles

Rupophobia — Fear of dirt

Russophobia — Fear of Russians

 

S

Samhainophobia — Fear of Halloween

Satanophobia — Fear of Satan or The Devil

Scabiophobia — Fear of scabies

Scelerophibia — Fear of bad men or burglars

Sciaphobia — Fear of shadows

Scoleciphobia — Fear of worms

Scolionophobia — Fear of school

Scopophobia — Fear of being seen or stared at

Scoptophobia — Fear of blindness in visual field

Scriptophobia — Fear of writing in public

Selachophobia — Fear of sharks

Selaphobia — Fear of light flashes

Selenophobia — Fear of the moon

Seplophobia — Fear of decaying matter

Siderodromophobia — Fear of trains, railroads, or train travel

Siderophobia — Fear of stars

Sinistrophobia — Fear of things to the left or left-handed

Sinophobia — Fear of China, Chinese, or Chinese culture

Sitiophobia — Fear of food or eating

Soceraphobia — Fear of parents-in-law

Social Phobia — Fear of social situations

Sociophobia — Fear of society or people in general

Somniphobia — Fear of sleep

Sophophobia — Fear of learning

Soteriophobia — Fear of dependence on others

Spacephobia — Fear of outer space

Spectrophobia — Fear of spectres or ghosts

Spheksophobia — Fear of wasps

Stasibasiphobia — Fear of standing or walking

Statue Phobia — Fear of statues or effigies

Staurophobia — Fear of crosses or the crucifix

Stenophobia — Fear of narrow things or places

Symbolophobia — Fear of symbolism

Symmetrophobia — Fear of symmetry

Syngenesophobia — Fear of relatives

 

T

Tachophobia — Fear of speed

Taeniophobia — Fear of tapeworms

Taphephobia — Fear of being buried alive or cemeteries

Tapinophobia — Fear of being contagious

Taurophobia — Fear of bulls

Technophobia — Fear of technology or computers

Teleophobia — Fear of definite plans or Religious ceremony

Telephonophobia — Fear of telephones

Teratophobia — Fear of bearing a deformed child, monsters, or deformed people

Testophobia — Fear of taking tests

Tetanophobia — Fear of lockjaw or tetanus

Textophobia — Fear of certain fabrics

Thalassophobia — Fear of the sea or the ocean

Thanatophobia — Fear of death, dying, being buried, cremation, or entombment

Theatrophobia — Fear of theatres

Theologicophobia — Fear of theology

Theophobia — Fear of gods or religion

Thermophobia — Fear of heat

Tocophobia — Fear of pregnancy or childbirth

Tomophobia — Fear of surgery or surgical operations

Topophobia — Fear of fear of certain places or situations

Toxicophobia — Fear of poison or being accidentally poisoned

Traumatophobia — Fear of injury or battle

Tremophobia — Fear of trembling

Trichinophobia — Fear of trichinosis

Trichopathophobia — Fear of hair

Triskaidekaphobia — Fear of the number 13

Tropophobia — Fear of moving or making changes

Trypanophobia — Fear of injections

Tyrannophobia — Fear of tyrants

 

U

Urophobia — Fear of urine or urinating

 

V

Vaccinophobia — Fear of vaccination

Verminophobia — Fear of germs

Vestiphobia — Fear of clothing

Virginitiphobia — Fear of rape

Vitricophobia — Fear of step-fathers

 

W

Walloonphobia — Fear of the Walloons

Wiccaphobia — Fear of witches & witchcraft

 

X

Xanthophobia — Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow

Xenoglossophobia — Fear of foreign languages

Xenophobia — Fear of strangers or foreigners

Xerophobia — Fear of dryness

Xylophobia — Fear of wood, wooden objects, or forests

Xyrophobia — Fear of razors

 

Z

Zelophobia — Fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia — Fear of the great mole rat

Zeusophobia — Fear of God or gods

Zoophobia — Fear of animals

 

 

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"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

 

Gayle Joubert
BA Th, GQHP, Dip Hyp, N Th

Psychotherapy   Hypnotherapy    Counselling    Inner Healing
Surrey  /  Middlesex