These patients feature in a new Channel 4 show called The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia, which follows as Brits as they visit Kindt Clinics in a desperate attempt to beat their extreme condition.
Welcome to Channel 4's The Fear Clinic - where Brits battle the strangest of phobias head on Going to a party is Ollie’s worst nightmare.
Psychologist Vivian Metselaar, herself not a massive fan of heights or needles, says: “The most common phobias we treat here are for specific animals like dogs, cats, insects, spiders.
We also treat fear of needles, the dentist, fear of the dark, deep water, open spaces - really anything you can imagine.”.
This intense fear of balloons, called globophobia, leaves him in a constant state of anxiety that affects daily life for him, his partner and their two young children.
