IT'S NEVER JUST THE SOUND.
MISOPHONIA THERAPY · IN PERSON & ONLINE
Certain sounds hit you like an alarm, and the people around you don’t understand why. I do. And I know it can change.
What I hear, again and again
“I plan my whole day around avoiding it.”
“I love them. So why do I feel like this?”
“Does everyone else hear it too? Are they just better at hiding it than me?”
“Maybe I’m just a horrible person.”
None of this makes you a horrible person. It means your nervous system learned to protect you, a little too well.
And you’re far from alone. Up to one in five people have significant misophonia symptoms, and for many of them, simply finding out it has a name is a huge relief.
What is misophonia?
It isn’t “just being annoyed”.
Misophonia is an intense reaction to certain sounds, very often the everyday sounds other people make. Before you can even think, your body reacts: anger, disgust, panic, or an overwhelming urge to get away. For some people, seeing certain movements sets it off too.
It isn’t an official diagnosis yet. But in 2022, an international group of experts agreed on a shared definition, an important step towards proper recognition. It usually begins in childhood.
It is real, it is increasingly recognised, and it is not your fault.
It’s never just the sound
The sound is only the tip of the iceberg.
Underneath it, there’s a nervous system that learned, often very early in life, that this sound means danger. I see it again and again, in my research and in my therapy room. It’s not the sound itself. It’s what the sound came to mean.
That’s why “just ignore it” rarely works. And it’s also where the hope is.
Misophonia is not a life sentence. What your brain learned, it can update.
Sequent Repatterning Therapy (SRT)
How I help
Most approaches teach you to cope with the reaction. SRT changes what’s driving it.
SRT was created by Chris Pearson specifically for misophonia, and it has been helping people for more than a decade. It draws on memory reconsolidation: neuroscience has shown that an old emotional learning can be updated when it’s revisited in the right way. I trained with Chris himself, and he continues to supervise and mentor my work.
In our sessions, you and I look for the emotional “knowing” underneath your reaction: what your body has learned this sound means. Sometimes we find it in an early memory, sometimes in something much more recent. Often it’s a protective system that switched on long ago, and never got the message that the danger had passed. Once we find that meaning and check it against what you know now, your brain can let it go. As if it says: “Everything is fine now. I don’t need to brace myself.”
Many of my clients notice their triggers lose their grip. For some, they fade completely.
SRT isn’t a magic pill, and it isn’t a cure. But it’s something I see working for people, over and over again. And because no two people are the same, every session is shaped around you.
Want to know more about SRT and the wider community of practitioners?
Visit the official SRT website: sequent-repatterning.co.uk
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What happens when we work together
A free conversation
You tell me what’s going on, and together we decide whether SRT is right for you. No pressure, no commitment.
Feeling safe first
Before we go anywhere deeper, we make sure you feel safe and settled. I’ll also share practical tools to help you cope day to day, so you feel some relief while we work.
Some detective work
We explore what this sound has come to mean for you, and what your body has learned to expect when you hear it. That learning might go back years, or it might show up in something that happened last week.
Updating the meaning
Coping tools help in the moment. Lasting change comes from updating what’s driving the reaction, so your system can finally stand down.
I see people in person in Morpeth, UK, and online for anyone, anywhere.
Why misophonia?
Like most people, I had never heard of misophonia until a close friend told me her daughter was struggling with it. I wanted to help, so I started reading everything I could find.
The very next day, I saw a conference invitation. Chris Pearson, the founder of Sequent Repatterning Therapy, was giving a talk about, guess what, misophonia. Do coincidences happen?
Since then, it has become personal too. My own son is very sound-aware and has shown early signs of misophonia, so prevention is now my everyday, in-house research project.
I’m Kat Britten, a trauma-aware cognitive hypnotherapist and SRT practitioner, trained, supervised and mentored by Chris himself. I hold an MSc in Psychology from Northumbria University, where my research explored what it is really like to live with misophonia, and I’m accredited with the National Council for Hypnotherapy.
