Many people have phobias that can be simply irritating or a real problem. Hypnosis isn’t about being controlled or manipulated against your will, so you have nothing to fear from hypnotherapy. Going into a hypnotic trance doesn’t involve swinging watches, simply focusing on the hypnotherapist’s voice will induce a trance. By using hypnotherapy to change patterns of thought and behaviour you have a short term treatment that can bring about long term change. There’s more about hypnotherapy hypnosis if you’re interested.