Frequenty Asked Questions – Anxiety Treatment
1. Does this mean I can come off my anxiety medication?
2. Do I need to repeat the treatment?
3. Can I become a Shinnick Anxiety Practitioner?
4. Where is the treatment available?
5. Where was this treatment developed?
7. How successful is the treatment?
8. What are talking therapies?
9. Does this include hypnosis?
10. Is this safe?
12. Can I come off my sleep medication?
13. Is there an age restriction on the Shinnick Anxiety treatment?
1. Does this mean I can come off my anxiety medication?
Yes clients usually come off their anxiety medication. We’ll send notes back to your GP with your permission. You’ll need to schedule an appointment to review your medication and to step down off them in a measured way. This needs to be done in consultation with your GP. You should not change medication or dosage without medical advice.
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2. Do I need to repeat the treatment?
No. Because we’re coaching you on how to get out of being anxious and have you practice the process of doing that, clients usually stay anxiety free. You’ll often hear them comment that they have tools or techniques to get out of being anxious. So it means anytime they start to go there they immediately change that. We have from time to time needed to remind clients of it, “Are you doing the process?” and then they typically do it.
When you have the treatment this will all make sense to you and you’ll have the same “aha!” moment as you learn how to quickly and easily come out of being anxious.
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3. Can I become a Shinnick Anxiety Practitioner?
We are training Practitioners now. If you are medically qualified* either as a Medical Doctor or General Practitioner, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Mental Health Worker, NLP Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Social Worker or Natural Health Practitioner** then check our training pages and information and contact us to find out more.
* We have a specific process and regardless of your medical modality we require that you have clients go through the process as we train it.
** We support people being trained in the process who currently work with anxiety or work with patients with similar sorts of issues. We would not expect for example to train an Optician in this process.
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4. Where is the treatment available?
Currently it’s available in New Zealand. We are starting the process of training practitioners around New Zealand and will follow that with further afield. The programme is being talked about around the world and it’s our objective to have this treatment available in the mainstream.
We need funding support, Philanthropists Wanted.
The treatment is also available over Skype in a limited way.
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5. Where was this treatment developed?
It’s been developed here in New Zealand through research and development being done by Des Shinnick who works at www.vivachi.co.nz . He’s been working on a number of treatments and has developed highly successful methods for treating anxiety, depression, dyslexia and anger or rage.
He has available other highly successful treatment methods for trauma, abuse, grief and phobias. These treatments are all drug free. Further he’s interested in research on asthma, ulcers, IBS, IBD, and Crohns disease utilising the skills and programmes that he has.
His biggest challenge is funding and financial support. Right now he’s looking for philanthropic donations to speed up research and knowledge in this area. Check the following page Philanthropist Wanted.
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6. Is there any research?
There is growing research on talking therapies with most being done around CBT. There is also research around coaching. At Shinnick Method we support research and integration into the medical community.
We have an existing Registered Clinical Trial in to the Shinnick Method Depression Treatment in conjunction with the University of Auckland, School of Medicine. We are expecting further Clinical Trials and ongoing research to support the results we have been getting in practice.
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7. How successful is the treatment?
The treatment has a very high level of success.
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8. What are talking therapies?
The term talking therapies would apply to the likes of CBT, Counselling, NLP Therapy, Psychotherapy and Psychology where treatment was done through the process of talking and coaching. When any of these dispense drugs then that would be termed a medical drug based treatment.
There are many talking therapies. Some focus on talking about the problem. We don’t support that method given that ruminating about future events can contribute to heightened anxiety.
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9. Does this include hypnosis?
No it does not. We only use coaching and talking therapies. You would never be treated with hypnosis as part of this programme.
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10. Is this safe?
Yes. The Shinnick Anxiety Method involves coaching you on new skills and utilising talking therapies to help you understand what has been triggering your anxiety as well as showing you how to come out of being anxious.
We consider this to be safe, as coaching and talking therapies are amongst the oldest and longest established forms of treatment. And drug free.
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11. Will my sleeping change?
Many anxiety clients are also on sleep medication. We’ll discuss the reason for this with you. Generally we expect your sleep to improve once we’ve completed the Anxiety treatment.
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12. Can I come off my sleep medication?
Clients usually come off their sleep medication. Clients usually report sleeping better after going through our Anxiety programme. We’ll send notes back to your GP with your permission. You’ll need to schedule an appointment to review your medication and to step down off it in a measured way. This needs to be done in consultation with your GP. You should not change medication or dosage without medical advice.
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13. Is there an age restriction on the Shinnick Anxiety treatment?
We’ve treated clients from 7 to 74 years old successfully. The only age restriction is that they are able to communicate and follow instructions.
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