Resolve social anxiety with Lucas. Fast, safe and drug-free.
The Resolve Anxiety Method gently switches social anxiety 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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“I felt in a safe pair of very responsible hands and successfully removed the beliefs that had impacted my life choices since childhood. It’s been a liberating experience and I’m deeply grateful to Lucas.”
“I decided to try hypnotherapy, and I am so grateful that I did! The sessions with Lucas delved deep into the root of my self-consciousness and allowed me to reframe my thoughts and emotions in a positive light.”
Exhausted by things other people find easy
This isn’t shyness, and nothing is wrong with you. Some of the kindest, most capable people I’ve worked with have lived with exactly this.
Book a free 15-minute callThe whole thing rests on approval
Social anxiety is an out-of-proportion unease in any situation where you could be observed, judged, or required to interact. The trigger is not the people. It is the possibility of being evaluated by them — what you think that means about you, and the deep fear of being rejected.
Once your system treats other people's opinions as the measure of your worth, every room becomes an assessment. That produces a constant low-grade monitoring of what everyone else might be thinking, which is exhausting in its own right and leaves very little attention for the conversation itself.
So you are not experiencing a social event. You are sitting an exam you never agreed to take.
Imagine walking into a room and simply being yourself.
Saying yes to the invitation without rehearsing the whole evening first.
Laughing without watching how you sound. Speaking up in the meeting. Leaving a conversation without replaying it for days.
Being with people stops being an exam, and becomes what it was always meant to be: connection.
That ease isn’t something you have to become. It’s who you are underneath the fear of judgement. And your subconscious can learn to let you be that person again.
Nobody is born socially anxious
Your subconscious has one primary job — to keep you safe — so from early in life it was working out who could be trusted, and who you needed to be in order to belong. Along the way, it drew up a map of the world — conclusions it has been acting on ever since: I’m not good enough. If I say the wrong thing, I’ll be rejected. I have to be perfect to be liked.
Being criticised or put down
A parent, teacher or sibling who was quick to point out what you got wrong. Over time, your subconscious concluded that being noticed means being judged.
Being left out or bullied
The group you weren’t invited into, the table you weren’t welcome at, the nickname that stuck. Enough of those, and belonging starts to feel conditional.
One embarrassing moment that stuck
Saying the wrong thing, blushing, a room that laughed. Everyone else forgot it. Your subconscious filed it as proof that social situations are where you get caught out.
Growing up around anxious adults
Watching a parent brace before every gathering teaches, without a word, that other people are something to be wary of — long before you can question it.
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. Once those moments are resolved, being around people starts to feel natural, because there is nothing left pulling against it.
Understanding happens in the 5%. The fear is running in the 95%.
You’ve talked it through, read the books, told yourself people aren’t really judging you — and still, the nerves keep showing up. Please be gentle with yourself: it isn’t your fault. You’ve simply been given tools that work somewhere other than where social anxiety lives.
Most approaches to social anxiety — understanding it, reasoning with it, pushing yourself to go anyway — work with the conscious, logical mind. But social anxiety 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 that led to a fear of being judged, and the conclusions they left behind — I’m not good enough, they won’t like me. Beneath the reach of logic, they keep telling your subconscious “I can’t handle this” — and the switch stays on.
To resolve social anxiety, 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 social anxiety — 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 social anxiety. It’s to stop needing to.
Learn how your social anxiety works.
Together, we map out your pattern: the situations that flip your switch, and the conclusions about people sitting underneath. 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 stay with the nerves in a room instead of escaping them. This goes beyond coping. It’s one clear message your subconscious understands: “I can handle this.”
Free yourself from old conclusions.
In hypnosis, we work directly with your subconscious, releasing the charge behind beliefs like “I’m not good enough” and “they’ll reject me”, and loosening the link between your worth and other people’s opinions.
Make ease your natural response.
Then, still in that relaxed hypnotic state, we rehearse the calm, confident you arriving, talking and staying with ease, until being around people becomes your new normal, without effort.
Your calmer, more confident self is closer than you think.
Questions people ask about this
Is this just shyness? Am I making too much of it?
Shyness is often something much quieter and doesn’t impede on people’s lives. Social anxiety is different: it is a fear response that decides where you go, what you say yes to, and what you miss out on. If it is costing you things you want, it is worth resolving.
I am fine with close friends. Why is that?
Because approval is already settled with them. The fear needs the possibility of assessment, which is why it appears with strangers, colleagues and anyone whose opinion still feels unresolved.
Will I have to force myself into social situations?
No exposure marathons. We change the response first, then let you find out what those situations feel like without it — which is a very different order of events.
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.
Social anxiety has already taken enough from you. You shouldn’t have to brace yourself to walk into a room.
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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