Clinical Psychologist, Dr Francesca Sawer gives a tip for how to overcome the pain element of needle phobia. This clip is taken from a video about investigating your thoughts, which can be found in the Smile app, where Francesca explains the things you can do to support yourself or a child so as to feel calmer and more confident about procedures involving needles.

Smile is a mental health app designed to support people managing chronic physical health conditions. Those managing a chronic physical health condition, such as cancer, diabetes or long covid, are more likely to develop a mental health condition. These emotional challenges can also affect parents, carers, family and friends, causing unfamiliar feelings to surface, whether that be anxiety, worry or overwhelm.

To ease some of these difficult emotions and improve your mental wellbeing, the Smile app offers expert led content and workshops as well as the five, evidence based therapies Smile is based on:

S Self Compassion and Self Care
M Mindfulness
I Investigate your Feelings (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
L Love and Let Go (Action and Commitment Therapy)
E Emotional Regulation

You can download the Smile app from Google Play or Apple App Store:
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Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/smilem...

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