28/04/2026
🚘 Driving Anxiety 🚘
Does getting in the car to drive fill you with dread? Do you play worst-case scenarios about the drive over and over in your head? Do you feel exhausted after driving because you’ve been so anxious? Or have you hung up your car keys for good? Deciding that the anxiety driving causes is no longer worth it.
I know how frustrating it is.
I’ve worked successfully with many clients who have found driving terrifying. They may have never really enjoyed driving, and that anxiety has built over time, or it may be a sudden onset of anxiety that they didn’t see coming. However, it presents itself, please know that you are not alone. It’s a common cause of anxiety, particularly, in my experience, for women.
Some clients have actually come to me for completely different reasons, and it’s only when we start working that we realise there’s a fear of driving. Our brain naturally wants to avoid things that make us anxious, and so for some, it can be easy to reason their way out of driving rather than accepting the fear and the effect it’s having on their life.
“Well… the bus is convenient”
“Well… my partner loves driving anyway”
“Well… I don’t need to go to the big out-of-town supermarket, I can walk to the local one”
All of a sudden, life can get pretty small.
Am I going to help you become a world-class rally driver? No. But that’s not the aim. The aim is to get you living life the way you want to.
Imagine being able to get to work in your own car, driving out to the big supermarket or jumping in the car to visit a friend, all without fear, without really even thinking about it. It just becomes part of your day.
Solution-focused hypnotherapy is a gentle yet incredibly effective form of therapy for helping people to combat driving anxiety. If you’d like to learn how, please message me, and we can book in a free initial consultation.