A mother-of-one has revealed how she was able to get over her ‘paralysing’ lifelong phobia of dogs with just five weekly Zoom sessions with a therapist.
Cheralene Lavery, from London, saw her mother badly bitten by a dog when she was a child and has been ‘terrified’ of the animals ever since.
She revealed she was so frightened she would ‘freeze’ whenever she saw a dog, defriended people if they got one as a pet and even ended relationships over