You will be liberated from your fears in just one week.

Our intensive one-week CALDA Specific Phobia Programme was developed for people with an isolated, specific phobia.

What is a specific phobia?
 

Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder with continual fear of an object, location or a situation, whereby the perception of a threat or danger is disproportionate to the fear-inducing factor. The affected individual tries vehemently to avoid the fear-inducing situation. If this is not possible, an immediate and uncontrollable anxiety reaction results, which can develop into a panic attack. These irrational fears and reactions go hand in hand with an impairment to social and professional life. There are five sub-types of specific phobias: Animals, environment, blood splattering injuries, situations and others. The social phobia with fear in the social context is a stand-alone diagnosis.

Symptoms

A person with a specific phobia experiences a significant and ongoing fear in the presence of an fear-inducing stimulus, be it an object, a location or a situation.
Criteria for specific phobias are:

• Characterised fear of an object or a situation
• Narrow stimulus-response connection: The phobic objects/situations always or almost always trigger an immediate fear response
• Consequences: Avoidance behaviour or enduring in the situation with extreme fear
• The anxiety is disproportionately related to the actual threat
• The anxiety is ongoing (typically ≥ 6 months)
• Degree of difficulty: Suffering or impairments

Effects of specific phobia on everyday life

A sign whether an anxiety concerns a specific phobia is the impairment to social and professional life. The affected individual gives up, for example, professional opportunities because they have to fly, or cancels a meeting in a high-rise building. In the case of an anxiety that limits the social and professional life and negatively impacts performance, self-confidence and relations, a social phobia could be concerned. This indicates that genetic factors could play a role in the emergence of a phobia. Imaging techniques show a hyperactivity in the amygdala and other regions of the brain.
An isolated phobia can significantly reduce quality of life. People with multiple phobias and an early start are most commonly affected by significant effects on quality of life. If untreated or treated too late, phobias can lead to other physical and mental illnesses to invalidity.

Phobia-Specific Psychotherapy

Neuroscientists have established an abnormal hyperactivation in the risk response among anxiety patients. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has proven successful in down-regulating the response to threats. It is also called confrontation or exposure in vivo and is the first-choice therapy.
Exposure in sensu, a form of desensitisation, is one way of confronting the fear in a safe environment. We work with clinical hypnosis and EMDR (Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing).
The combination of both procedures is the most effective way to treat specific phobias. Psychoeducation, anxiety and stress management round off our psychotherapy programme.

Holistic Treatment

We take a holistic approach to treatment. The body is directly supported by our micronutrients right from the first day.
Our CALDA Concept includes preventative and better ageing medicine, nutrition and lifestyle coaching. However, it is clearly psychotherapy and supplementary alternative and complementary therapies that take priority in the CALDA Specific Phobia Programme. Acupressure, acupuncture, alpha stimulation, manual therapies, meditation and mindfulness, personal training and yoga have also proven to be especially effective.
A personal coach lives with you in our luxurious and private residences during the entire week and accompanies you through the therapy programme empathetically. This covers 6 to 8 hours a day. A significant part of this takes place outside of the CALDA Clinic. This is dependent on the type of phobia.
Our premium full service with butler, chef and limousine service leaves nothing to be desired. You can optimally recuperate and relax.
With proactive motivated participation in our personalised intensive therapy programme, we are able to liberate you from your fears in just one week, drastically improving your quality of life.

Costs

We charge you from CHF 100,000 for the one-week CALDA Specific Phobia Program.

External hotel costs, medical services provided by third-party institutes and post-treatment programmes are not included.