Test Anxiety Workshop

Who can benefit from the Test Anxiety Workshop?

More and more students are experiencing test anxiety. This can have a serious impact on: 

  • SAT Scores
  • University admissions
  • Longterm outcomes for work and school. 

Students who experience test anxiety may find themselves with a high heart rate, and they might feel sweaty. They might even procrastinate or avoid studying at all, because they don’t think there’s a point in it. 

But a student experiencing testing anxiety is not doomed to poor grades and low academic outcomes. NoVA’s Test Anxiety Workshop works with students to give them the mindset tools to excel in their exams. The Test Success Workshop will help your child to:

  • Increase confidence
  • Lower stress levels for high-pressure situations, like tests
  • Decrease procrastination
  • Improve focus

Over the past five years, NoVA Hypnosis has worked with over 3500 clients to optimize their mindsets for growth and personal success. 

NoVA has worked with clients at all levels of government, military, and business as well as competitive athletes to perform at their best ability in high-stress testing situations, public speaking, and important competitions. 

Students in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. are under a lot of pressure to excel. Students are studying more and more, but without a resourceful mindset during exams hours of studying can disappear in moments. 

Sign your child up for the NoVA Test Anxiety Workshop to ensure that when test day comes they can use everything they’ve learned and get the results that they’ve worked for. 

My son is a pre-teen competitive gymnast and we found NoVA Hypnosis when he was struggling with some fear and mental blocks after seeing a team member get injured... The experience with Ramzy was amazing and effective for my son (overcoming fears, gaining significantly in confidence, giving him a framework to operate in to control his state) and had a positive influence on our family in general. We really loved the team and the experience and would 100% recommend Ramzy. What my son learned is applicable to all stages of life and to anyone trying to grow and improve themselves.

What is the Test Anxiety Workshop?

The Test Anxiety Workshop is a 5-week solution to test anxiety. Each week, your child will attend an intensive, 2-hour group session where they will learn the essential tools to reducing their test anxiety and achieving the testing results that they have worked so hard for. 

This 5-course series will provide the visceral and emotional change to give your child to take tests with both the knowledge that they can do better, and the mindset capabilities to do it. 

Each week will have an essential topic and theme that will help to bring your child closer to the final step of transcending and transforming the fear that is holding them back from success. 

How will the Test Anxiety Workshop Help?

Better Understand Their Relationship with Fear

Learn to Attune Themselves to the Experience of Fear

Learn about their Values

Identify their Needs

 

Transcend and Transform Fear

Test Anxiety Treatment

Week 1

Students experience test anxiety because of fear. Fear of failing, fear of underperforming, fear of disappointing their parents or their teachers. To know how to change their relationship with fear, they must first understand it. In Week 1, students will learn to better understand their own relationships with fear.

Week 2

In Week 2, students will learn how to attune themselves to their personal experience of fear. Knowing exactly what their fear feels like and becoming familiar with it will help them to learn to address it when experienced. 

Week 3

In Week 3, students will examine their personal values, and who they are as people. This process will be the first step in realigning their identity to give them the self-believe in their abilities to succeed. 

Week 4

People operate with six basic needs, and orient their behaviour to fulfil the needs that are most important to them. In Week 4, students will learn to understand their own needs, and learn to align their needs and their behaviour. 

Week 5

The final step of the Test and Anxiety Workshop will be to transcend and transform their fear. In Week 5, students will associate fear with growth and exploration, and use their new mindset to take tests with confidence and get the results that they have worked for. 

Overcome Test Anxiety

During the group classes, instructors will use a systematic balance of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis, and Coaching to teach the students to transcend the capabilities that they thought they had. Then, during the classes, the students will learn to use the tools themselves so that they can access them during exams to effectively manage their anxiety. 

NLP

NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is a tool developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Essentially, when you use NLP you are hacking your own brain with language and physicality to make your brain work with you instead of against you.

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is like a cross between meditation and coaching. It feels like the state of extreme focus you can feel when you are absorbed in a task. Being in this state makes you more suggestible, which can allow you to sort through issues more quickly.

Coaching

Coaching is a process that works to improve individuals' performance in the immediate present, with a focus on helping individuals to learn instead of listen.

Who are the teachers?

Ramzy Ayachi, BCH

CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER
Ramzy is a Board Certified Hypnotist and Certified Instructor, Master NLP Practitioner and Instructor, Certified Health Coach, CH-53E pilot, and retired Marine Corps officer.

Monica Marusceac, MBA, BCH

FOUNDER AND CEO
Monica is a Leadership Coach and Board Certified Hypnotist,  Marine Corps combat jet pilot, a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, and a commercial pilot.

What do people have to say about us?

Testimonials:

I heard about NoVA Hypnosis through my friend Michelle R, (who also wrote a review on Yelp.) I saw Michelle recently at a work conference, and she mentioned that she took  a new position within her company that required her to fly frequently. Knowing that Michelle had a extreme fear of flying I was surprised that she would accept a position that came with such travel commitments. When I questioned how she was going to handle all of the flying in her new job, to my astonishment, Michelle said “Oh I am a good flier now!”  and when I heartily laughed she said ” No, really, I am!”  Ok so knowing Michelle’s fear, I was completely intrigued about this new found confidence.  Then she told me about Ramzy and NoVA Hypnosis.

 I had the initial questions that probably everyone has who has NO CLUE what to expect from hypnosis other than what I had seen on TV.  (Seriously my first question to her was “Am I going to periodically and spontaneously cluck like a chicken or something when these sessions are over?” And “How does this work- do you go into a trance while on the plane?” She of course laughed hysterically and told me she would send me Ramzy’s contact info). Without hesitation, I can honestly say that one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life was to make that phone call to NOVA Hypnosis.

Over the last two years I have been doing much more air travel as my work position grew to include National Sales oversight. Just this past year I clocked over 30,000 air miles for work, but I noticed that as the time drew near for each flight, I was getting more and more anxiety both before and especially during the flight.  I came to feel powerless every time the flight encountered some turbulence, so much so that my head usually ended up plastered to the seat in front of me to steady myself during the bumps! I decided I really did not want to live under so much stress since so much of my time was on an airplane. So I booked a consultation with Ramzy and to my great relief, my life is now forever changed for the better! After 4 back to back sessions and the initial consultation, I am now “one of those people” who I used to marvel at on planes- you know the ones who are sleeping before take off and all the way through the flight! I am SO relaxed on flights now that I travel with my neck pillow because invariably I end up with my head so far back or to one side that my neck starts to hurt! Honestly, even though I am aware of turbulence, I am so relaxed that I can’t even bring my body to tighten up! AND for the first time in my history of flying (19 years,) During take off, I am completely relaxed- like just got out of a massage kind of relaxed!  Normally I would tighten every muscle in my body as the plane sped down the runway. 

There is so much more I could write; I could go on and on singing the praises of NoVA Hypnosis and Ramzy Ayachi and how much more peaceful and focused my life in ALL areas now is. Ramzy is extremely professional and is very well trained in his craft. I appreciate how prepared he was for our sessions and how much he truly cared about what I was going through. And he is definitely “the great encourager.” You will feel like you can conquer anything after sessions with him.  

 One point I wanted to make very clear. Ramzy and Monica and the staff at NoVA take what they do very seriously.  I am an educated, professional business woman who has spent most of my career at the top of my game.  Before meeting Ramzy and Monica I had the notion Hypnosis was superficial and mostly for TV purposes. I am a living testimony that Hypnosis is not just for Hippies in bare feet with flowers in their hair- not that there is anything wrong with that! 🙂  However, It is also for today’s professional person, athlete, parent, and for anyone who is looking to not only conquer fear, or unwanted  habits, but it’s also great for focus and self awareness.  If you are open, the possibilities are truly endless.  If my testimony helps just one person to call Nova Hypnosis and Wellness that is a success to me indeed.  Make that call- I promise, you will be so very glad you did!

For seventeen years, I have had an extreme fear of flying.  After my last flight, which was so bad that I vowed to never get on another plane again, I reached out to NoVA Hypnosis and Wellness to help me with my fear of flying.  I will admit that, initially, I wasn’t convinced that hypnosis would work for me.  After all, I have lived with this fear for half of my life and felt that nothing could help me become a calm flyer.  I met with Ramzy and he was beyond accommodating to my schedule.  I had a flight a week after my initial consultation, and Ramzy was kind enough to schedule me for three, back to back sessions, prior to my trip.  

The day I took my first flight after hypnosis, I was calm as could be.  Normally, I am having a panic attack two days before my trip, but to my surprise, I remained cool, calm, and collected as I drove to the airport and checked in.  This calmness continued as I waited to board the plane, and as we took off, I was relaxed and at peace. Who was this person I had become?!  I honestly could not believe it!  Hypnosis not only worked, but it REALLY WORKED!!!!!  My return trip home was just as smooth and I owe this success to Ramzy.  It is such a relief to no longer have this fear.  I fly a lot for work, and the stress and anxiety I used to feel was really taking a toll on my mental well-being.  Words cannot express how thankful I am for meeting Ramzy, as his expertise has been life changing.   Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me overcome this fear!

I rarely write reviews, but felt compelled to after my experience with NoVA Hypnosis & Wellness.  

I was so fortunate to connect with Ramzy Ayachi, and the 5 sessions that I had with him have completely changed my life for the better.  I contacted Ramzy to help solve a public speaking anxiety issue, but as we got to the root of why I had a high degree of insecurity he not only fixed the tactical issue with doing large speaking engagements, but also allowed me to better understand and connect to the core of my being.  It has opened up a new world to me in terms of what I am getting out of life and has driven me to become the best version of myself.  I feel I’m now able to meet any challenge and no longer have the limiting beliefs and emotional baggage that has held me back for decades.  

I would recommend Ramzy and NoVA Hypnosis to anyone that wants to get so much more out of life and better connect with themselves.  This is the best investment in myself that I have ever made.

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