Resolve your fear of public speaking with Lucas. Fast, safe and drug-free.
The Resolve Anxiety Method gently switches the fear off at its source by updating the subconscious mind. Trusted by students and CEOs, new parents and retirees, and everyone in between. Most people experience meaningful change within 3–6 sessions.
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Competent everywhere else, undone by a meeting
None of this reflects your ability. Some of the most capable, high-functioning people I have worked with have lived with exactly this.
Book a free 15-minute callYou have already rehearsed it. Just not the version you wanted.
A few nerves before speaking to a room full of people is normal, even useful. Dreading it for weeks, or being so anxious in the moment that you can barely get the words out, is something different — and it is something that can change.
Where there is enough emotion attached to a thought, your brain does not distinguish sharply between something imagined and something that happened. It responds to the picture as though the picture were real.
So every time you run the scene where you lose your thread and the room notices, you are not merely worrying. You are training. The body gets the same instruction it would get from the event itself, and the response gets a little more practised.
Which means the nerves are not a verdict on your ability. They are the result of a rehearsal you never meant to run. In a sense, you have been hypnotising yourself all along — pointed in the wrong direction.
Why your mind goes blank
When your system reads the room as a threat, adrenaline floods in and blood is redirected towards the muscles, ready to run or fight. The prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain that plans, finds words and holds a train of thought — is given less priority and partly goes offline.
The words have not gone anywhere. They are just temporarily out of reach — and they come back the moment the alarm settles.
Which is why more preparation rarely fixes it. You can know the material perfectly and still lose it under threat. The answer is not knowing it better. It is taking away the reason your body treats the room as dangerous in the first place.
Imagine standing up to speak, and actually enjoying it.
Walking to the front of the room feeling steady. Your words there when you reach for them. Your voice sounding like you.
Looking out at the faces in front of you and seeing people, not judges. Even laughing at the moment something goes off-script.
The weeks of dread before a presentation, gone. In their place, something closer to anticipation.
That confidence isn’t something you have to manufacture. It’s already there underneath the fear. And your subconscious can learn to let it through.
It usually started with one moment in front of a room
Very few people are born afraid of speaking. Usually there was a moment where standing up in front of others was too overwhelming, and your subconscious drew a conclusion it has acted on ever since.
Reading aloud in class
Stumbling over a word, the class laughing, a teacher waiting. The room forgot it by lunchtime. Your subconscious filed it as evidence that being watched is where humiliation happens.
Freezing in a presentation
One talk where the mind went blank is often enough. From then on, every presentation arrives carrying the memory of that one, and the dread starts weeks ahead.
Watching it happen to someone else
You never had to be the one who froze. Seeing a classmate or colleague humiliated at the front of the room can teach your subconscious the same lesson: the spotlight is where people get hurt.
Growing up where being seen was risky
If attention at home or school tended to mean criticism, visibility itself becomes the threat. And public speaking is the most visible situation there is.
You may not remember where yours began — and you don’t need to. We work with the response as it runs now, and let your subconscious lead us to whatever needs to be resolved.
The good news is that what your subconscious learned in a moment, it can unlearn. Just as it learned to treat the room as a threat, it can learn to feel calm, confident and secure there instead. The key is getting that message through to the part of you that needs to hear it.
You prepare in the 5%. The fear is running in the 95%.
You’ve rehearsed your notes, practised the breathing, told yourself it will be fine — and still, the fear keeps showing up. Please be gentle with yourself: it isn’t your fault. You’ve simply been given tools that work somewhere other than where the fear lives.
Most approaches to speaking nerves — preparing harder, breathing them down, pushing through — work with the conscious, logical mind. But the fear doesn’t live there. Research in psychology suggests that as much as 95% of our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are driven by subconscious, automatic processes.
That’s where the fear is held: the moments in front of a room that went badly, and the conclusions they left behind — I’ll freeze, they’ll judge me, I’ll be humiliated. Beneath the reach of logic, they keep telling your subconscious “I can’t handle this” — and the switch stays on.
To resolve the fear of speaking, we work gently with the place where the switch actually lives.
The subconscious mind.
That’s where hypnotherapy comes in.
Hypnosis induces a calm, relaxing, yet focused state that quiets the brain’s threat response, including activity in areas like the amygdala and an over-reactive limbic system. This is what makes the subconscious reachable.
Forget the stage show. Nobody takes control of your mind, and nothing is being done to you. You stay conscious and aware the whole way through, steering the process — less like giving up agency, more like finally being handed the controls.
Combined with the other Resolve Anxiety Method tools, it gives you a remarkably powerful way of updating the patterns driving the fear of speaking — and resolving it for good.
Want to learn more about hypnotherapy? →“Lucas is a very kind and compassionate therapist. This, along with the welcoming therapy space, made my experience feel very safe. Lucas’ guidance has made such a positive experience in my day to day life — I can’t recommend him highly enough.”
Stop coping. Start resolving.
The goal isn’t to become better at managing the nerves. It’s to stop needing to.
Learn how your fear works.
Together, we map out your pattern: the moments that trigger the dread, and what your mind predicts will happen in that room. Once you can see it clearly, you stop fighting your subconscious and start working with it as a team.
Speak to your subconscious.
Using simple Resolve Anxiety tools, you learn to let the nerves rise and settle instead of fighting them. This goes beyond coping. It’s one clear message your subconscious understands: “I can handle this.”
Clear the fear at its source.
In hypnosis, we work directly with your subconscious, releasing the charge from the moments the fear grew from and loosening the belief that being watched means being judged. We go at a pace that always feels safe.
Make confidence your natural response.
Then, still in that relaxed hypnotic state, we rehearse you walking up, starting to speak and holding the room, calm and steady, until standing up becomes your new normal, without effort.
Your calmer, more confident self is closer than you think.
Questions people ask about this
Will I lose the edge that makes me prepare properly?
No. A normal lift in alertness before you speak is useful, and removing it is not the goal. What goes is the disproportionate alarm — the part that arrives a fortnight early and makes your mind go blank.
I am fine one-to-one. Why does a group undo me?
Because the fear is about being observed and assessed rather than about talking. Add an audience and the approval stakes rise, which is exactly the trigger the response was built around.
Can this help with interviews or speaking up in meetings?
Yes. The fear is the same whether it’s a keynote, a job interview or a comment in a team meeting: being watched and assessed. That’s what we work on, so the change carries across all of them.
What does it cost?
Your first session is 90 minutes and costs $240. Follow-up sessions are $180. The 15-minute call beforehand is free.
The fear of speaking has already cost you enough. You have earned the right to be heard.
Book a free fifteen-minute call. We’ll simply talk about what’s been happening and whether this work feels right for you — no pressure, no commitment.
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