The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

In the UK alone, an estimated 10 million people suffer with a phobia. From emetophobia (a chronic fear of vomit) to arachnophobia (a fear of spiders), musophobia (a fear of mice), ranidophobia (a fear of frogs) and even globophobia (a severe phobia of balloons). Often, deep-rooted in past experiences or traumas, these phobias can cause shame, stigma and even ridicule as people suffer in silence, sometimes with wide-ranging, negative impacts on their daily lives.

Filmed on fixed-rig cameras, in each episode of The Fear Clinic, three British phobia sufferers check into the state-of-the-art clinic in Amsterdam, where a renowned Dutch scientist and her team of psychologists will treat their phobias.

Series details

• Title: The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Medical
• Premiere date: 2025-01-21
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 75743
• TVDB ID: 459174

Cast and credited roles

• Kate Ashfield — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2025-01-21; final listed air date 2025-02-25; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

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