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Jane Pendry, compassionate online therapist based on Oxford. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, Rewind Emetophobia specialist.

Compassionate, award-winning online hypnotherapist and coach for anxiety, stress, phobias, traumas/PTSD/C-PTSD, medical trauma, travel fears, IBS.

31/12/2025

✨✨ New Year Message ✨

As we step into a new year, it feels important to acknowledge the quiet strength shown by so many people living with anxiety, trauma, stress, IBS, insomnia and complex phobias.

🌱 These experiences can be exhausting, often invisible to others, yet resilience continues to show up in countless ways; even during the most challenging moments.

🌱 Recovery and healing are rarely linear. They are shaped by brave steps forward, quieter days of rest, unexpected setbacks and the courage to keep going when the nervous system feels overwhelmed.

🌱 Making it through the past year while managing these challenges is, in itself, something worthy of recognition.

🌱 The start of a new year does not need to bring pressure or unrealistic expectations.

🌱 It can simply offer space for greater self-compassion, increased trust in the body, gentle progress where possible and permission to rest when needed.

🌱 Anxiety and stress may feel intense and frightening, but they are uncomfortable experiences rather than dangerous ones.

🌿Whether someone is at the very beginning of their journey, well into recovery, or navigating a particularly difficult period, every step counts.

🌿Struggle is not failure, and needing support is not a weakness.

🌳Here’s to a year of progress in whatever form it appears … even if it’s quiet and gradual.🤍

Happy New Year 🌱✨

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11/12/2025

⭐️ A POWERFUL FIVE STAR REVIEW ⭐️

🙏🏻 Thank you Maria for your powerful review of the root cause and parts hypnotherapy.

⚡️ Trauma need not be something huge or dramatic. All it really means is that our nervous system was overwhelmed and we couldn’t process what was happening in real time, we dissociated or became stuck in hyper-vigilance.

😧 Then the past can ping back into the present and we experience fear, overwhelm, intense anxiety and stress, or some other manifestation that makes us feel out of control or knocked off centre.

😌 Root Cause & Parts hypnotherapy is an established process that helps heal those past wounds and ‘split parts’ formed in childhood. Painlessly, privately and without even having recall or disclose past traumatic events, or even sometimes to fully know what they were.

Here’s Maria’s full review from Yell.

Maria M

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Parts therapy

“I met with Jane in a hard period in my life after my mom had cancer, I had panic attacks every day and was on anti anxiety medication for few months. I couldn’t concentrate on work, became claustrophobic: was afraid to lock the door in the public bathroom or use a lift. My overall health was not good.

“Jane was very kind and professional, fully explained every detail about her approach.

“We did parts therapy for 6 sessions, slowly I stopped taking my medication and by the end of the course felt absolutely fine without it! I started to see my destructive behaviours so clear - like I was looking from my adult self to it. It didn’t trigger me anymore.

“Feeling all this guilt and shame, no surprise I was anxious all the time. It encouraged me to self value myself more. I feel like myself again, I can’t describe how grateful I am to Jane. I still listen to the recording Jane made for me few times a week before bed.”

Thank you Maria for you kind review.

01/12/2025

Struggling to explain how emetophobia impacts you? Here’s an article for family, friends, carers, teachers and medical practitioners.

🌿 Do you live with the fear of vomiting, silently suffering but overwhelmed?

You are not alone.

The article “Why is Emetophobia so Complex?” by Sense-Ability offers a heartfelt and honest explanation of what emetophobia really is: a phobia that isn’t about spiders, heights or needles but about a fear of your own body’s automatic reactions to any threat of vomiting.

That’s what can make this complex phobia so constant, exhausting, misunderstood.

This article explains how emetophobia can be rooted in early traumatic experiences of vomiting, sensory sensitivity or neurodivergence and why it can feel so hard to talk about it or explain it to others.

💛 If you’ve ever tried to explain your fear and felt dismissed or “irrational,” this article may help you finally understand what you’re going through, and help you explain it to meducal professionals, schools and family.

Recovery is possible without complex manuals, stressful CBT or exposure and response prevention therapy. There is another, gentler way.

The blog outlines a gentle path to healing based on understanding, kindness, and the right kind of support.

Link in bio — read, reflect, share, and know all emetophobia sufferers deserve compassion and care. 🌱

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24/11/2025

7% of the population are thought to experience emetophobia — a debilitating fear of vomiting that can take over daily life.

But what does the research actually say?

The current, clinically trialled treatment is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) combined with CBT.
It’s the approach explored in the limited published research .

ERP can be extremely tough, and it often requires a highly trained, specialist clinician to deliver safely and effectively. It also doesn’t account for everyone’s needs; for example, autistic individuals or those who can’t tolerate exposure.

👉 In reality, the evidence base is small.
👉 Results aren’t guaranteed.
👉 And the standard approach isn’t suitable for everyone.

There is another way…

A gentler, sensory-informed, neurodiversity-aware, trauma-informed alternative that supports change without forced exposure.

Learn more about the Sense-Ability approach to overcoming emetophobia:
https://www.sense-ability.co.uk/for-emetophobia-programme

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21/09/2025

Emetophobia & Autism

The connection between autism and emetophobia (the intense fear of vomiting) is not fully understood.

However, several factors suggest a potential link between the two.

Not everyone with autism will develop emetophobia of course, but the connection between autism, the operation of the vagus nerve (the parasympathetic nervous system) and emetophobia involves a complex interplay of neurological, physiological, and psychological factors that can lead to increased sensitivity to bodily sensations, including vomiting.

Find out more in Articles.

Or at https://www.sense-ability.co.uk/blog-article/2024/9/28/autism-and-emetophobia

04/09/2025

Address Irritable Bowel Syndrome Fast

Gut Directed Hypnotherapy is an effective, proven therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and functional disorders of the gut.

GDH can reduce symptoms and support lifestyle change for sufferers of SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) and SIFO (Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth) or candida.
Address your IBS

with Sense-Ability Solution Focused Therapies and Somatic Exercises

For optimal outcomes

Outstanding lasting results

Clinically proven protocol

Approved by NICE

No waiting lists

Targets root cause of symptoms

No complex diets

Drug free

Reduces overall stress

19/05/2025

If you’re living with anxiety, a complex phobia, complex trauma, PTSD or IBS, you’re not alone.

I’m a solution focused hypnotherapist who works with people struggling with complex trauma, phobias (specialising in emetophobia; the fear of vomiting), and anxiety-related disorders.

These challenges can feel overwhelming, isolating, and exhausting… but change is possible.

I also offer gut directed hypnotherapy for IBS, which is backed by strong clinical evidence showing it can ease symptoms and really improve day-to-day life.

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about helping you feel calmer, more in control, strengthening your immune system, and providing the right conditions for healing.

I work online across the world, with some morning in person sessions.

Get in touch to book your free 20 minute exploratory consultation and find out how Solution Focused might help you.

16/05/2025

Delighted to completed this fabulous training on psychoneuroimmunology, and the wonderful effect that hypnosis can have on the immune system and a number of mental and physical health issues.

16/05/2025

Feeling anxious or stressed can be overwhelming, uncomfortable and distressing.

The Sense-Ability Emotimeter aims to bring back a state of calm.

Its a simple, powerful tool for managing anxiety.

The anxiety scale measures levels of distress. Check in with your feelings.

1 to 3 = The green zone. Calm and grounded.

4 to 6 = The orange zone. Feeling stressed and anxious but able to function.

7 to 10 = The red zone. Overwhelmed and moving to panic.

By regularly rating anxiety, we become more aware of early warning signs before they escalate; and respond with helpful interventions.

Here’s how it works:

Pause, imagine the retro meter in your head and rate your emotional state (1–10).

In the orange or red zone?

Box breathing: Inhale for 4 steady counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4 and repeat for a minute at a time.

Rectangular breathing: Breathe in for 4; and breathe out for 8. Ideal for the red zone for a minute at a time.

Vagus nerve stimulation: Humming, chanting, gargling, or extended exhales can help calm the nervous system.

Grounding exercises: Focus on your senses (e.g., 5 things you can see, 4 touch, 3 feel, 2 smell, 1 taste …) to bring yourself back to the present.

Cold exposure: Splash your face or run wrists under cold water to stimulate the vagus nerve and shift your body into calm.

Or a tools you have learnt.

Reassess and see if the number has dropped.

The anxiety scale is a concrete way to track our emotional state, and the effectiveness of the tools we are using.

Over time, learn which techniques work best for you and gain back control.

16/05/2025

Feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed is so uncomfortable and distressing.

Jane Pendry developed the Sense-Ability Emotimeter to take back control of challenging feelings.

Its a simple, powerful tool for managing anxiety.

Simply use the anxiety scale to measure levels of distress, and check in with feelings at any given moment.

Using a number of interventions,we can watch anxiety, distress and overwhelm go down, and gain back control.

1 to 3 = The green zone. Calm and grounded.

4 to 6 = The orange zone. Feeling stressed and anxious but able to function.

7 to 10 = The red zone. Overwhelmed and moving to panic.

By regularly rating anxiety, we can become more aware of early warning signs before they escalate; and respond with helpful interventions.

Here’s how it works:

Pause, imagine the retro meter in your head and rate your emotional state (1–10).

If you’re in the orange or red zone use an intervention designed to activate your parasympathetic nervous system (the calming, “rest and digest” system).

Box breathing: Inhale for 4 steady counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4 and repeat for a minute at a time.

Rectangular breathing: Breathe in for 4; and breathe out for 8. Ideal for the red zone for a minute at a time.

Vagus nerve stimulation: Humming, chanting, gargling, or extended exhales can help calm the nervous system.

Grounding exercises: Focus on your senses (e.g., 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can feel, 2 you can smell, 1 you can taste …) to bring yourself back to the present moment.

Cold exposure: Splash your face with cold water or hold an ice cube to stimulate the vagus nerve and shift your body into a calmer state.

Or a tools you have already learnt.

Reassess after the intervention and see if the number has dropped.

The anxiety scale is a concrete way to track our emotional state, and the effectiveness of the tools we are using.

Over time, you may start to notice patterns and learn which techniques work best for you.

Anxiety is part of being human. But with the right tools and awareness, it can be managed well.

01/05/2025

Thank you for your kind review on Yell.

“Brilliant experience.

“I was recommended Jane by a friend and I’m very glad that I followed it up. I went with the work related issue, but Jane helped me to resolve some issues in my personal life as well. I now have a new job and feel more in control in family relationships so would highly recommend this to anyone - especially those who have been to counsellors and found they’ve got to the end of the road with that approach. I think the sessions are very good at helping you understand the subconscious processes that might be controlling your actions and perceptions or holding you back.”

13/03/2025

Sense-Ability Customer Testimonials

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Read Google Business, Yell and Facebook reviews by clicking on the logos on my Testimonials Page.

Due to the sensitivity of working with complex trauma and phobias, many of my clients choose to send me testimonials for my website.

https://www.sense-ability.co.uk/testimonials

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