Golf yips treatment in Orlando, Florida by Daniel Olson of the Orlando hypnosis center.
It’s not even a scary hole.
You’ve hit this shot a thousand times.
And yet your brain does the thing — the weird freeze, the don’t you dare moment — and suddenly your body tries to “help” in the exact wrong way.
Chunk. Thin. Pull. Push. Shank. Or the putter twitches like you’re trying to defuse a bomb.
That, in plain English, is what golfers mean when they say “the yips.”
And if you’re searching golf yips treatment Orlando, you’re probably past the stage of “maybe it’s my grip.” You’ve likely tried:
new putter / new grips / new stroke thought
“just relax” (lol)
a quick lesson to “fix mechanics”
not thinking (which is still thinking)
avoiding the shots that trigger it
switching to a claw grip, cross-hand, left-hand-low, or something you saw on YouTube at 1:30 a.m.
Sometimes those help. Sometimes they help for a week.
But the ugly truth is this: a lot of yips issues are not a skills problem. They’re a mind-body loop problem.
Which is why we see golfers make real progress when they treat the yips like what they are: a subconscious program that got installed at some point… and can be updated.
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At Orlando Hypnosis Center, this is exactly what we do with golf hypnosis: subconscious training aimed at performance under pressure — the part of golf that doesn’t show up on the range.
If you want the official page we’re pulling context from, it’s here: Golf Hypnosis – Orlando Hypnosis Center
What the yips actually are (and why “try harder” makes it worse)
Most golfers describe the yips like a betrayal.
And that’s not dramatic. It literally feels like your body stops taking instructions from you.
Here’s the simplest model:
Conscious mind: “Make a smooth stroke.” “Commit to the target.”
Subconscious mind: “DANGER.” “Don’t miss.” “We missed last time.” “Protect the ego.”
Golf is a precision sport where you have to do something athletic (fluid, rhythmic, confident) while your conscious brain is trying to do something administrative (control, correct, monitor, not screw up).
That conflict creates the yips loop.
And the more you care, the more you analyze. The more you analyze, the tighter you get. The tighter you get, the worse the results. The worse the results, the more your brain labels the situation as “threat.”
Congrats, you’ve now trained your nervous system to panic over a three-foot putt.
This is why the yips are so annoying: your brain thinks it’s helping you survive. It’s just using the wrong strategy.
The two types of yips (and why it matters for treatment)
In golf circles, people generally talk about two buckets:
1) “Technical” yips (movement breakdown)
This is when the stroke itself has a twitchy, jerky, involuntary feel.
The golfer often says something like: “My hands just do it.”
Or: “I can’t stop the hit.”
2) “Psychological” yips (performance anxiety / fear response)
This is when the motion is available… until it’s not.
You can roll putts on the practice green just fine. But once it counts, your brain starts narrating your funeral.
In real life, many golfers have a mix of both. The mental stress can create physical tension, and the physical “glitch” then becomes evidence your brain uses to fear it more.
Treatment works best when you don’t argue over which one you have. You just address the loop.
Why the yips show up in putting… and also randomly on full swings
Putting is the classic yips arena because:
it’s slow enough to overthink
it’s high consequence (score changes fast)
it’s visible (everyone watches you miss a 2-footer)
it’s repeatable (you face the same “test” over and over)
But the yips can show up anywhere your brain decides it cares too much:
wedges (especially “must hit” shots)
tee shots on narrow holes
short putts (the worst)
bunker shots when you’ve bladed two in a row
Once the yips appear, the golfer starts building a “map of danger” on the course.
And that map becomes self-fulfilling.
So what is golf hypnosis, and why would it help the yips?
Golf hypnosis is a performance-focused form of hypnotherapy aimed at training the subconscious mind — the part that runs patterns, habits, tension responses, confidence levels, and automatic movements.
At Orlando Hypnosis Center, the whole idea is simple:
reduce performance anxiety
build calm focus under pressure
strengthen visualization and expectation of success
remove the “threat” label from yips-trigger situations
install a repeatable, confident performance state
This isn’t “woo.” It’s not mind control. It’s mental training done in a state where the subconscious is more receptive.
The page on our site puts it bluntly: golf is both mental and physical, and hypnosis is used to train the mind for success using tools like visualization and positive suggestion. It also notes a key point many golfers miss:
Your subconscious mind runs most of your behavior.
That page also mentions a well-known example: Tiger Woods used hypnosis as a teen for visualization and confidence-building.
Do you need to be Tiger to benefit? No. You just need a brain that learned a bad pattern.
What a “golf yips treatment Orlando” plan usually looks like
If you’re looking for a magic sentence that will cure the yips, you’re going to hate this section.
Because the yips are usually solved through retraining, not “one clever idea.”
A solid treatment plan tends to include:
1) Identify the trigger (the exact moment the loop starts)
Most golfers describe it as:
standing over the ball
taking the last look at the hole
bringing the club back
impact (where the “hit” happens)
We care about when the yips start because that’s where we train a new response.
2) Rebuild the “state” (calm + confident + present)
Golf is state-dependent.
Meaning: if you practice calm but compete in panic, you’ll perform like you practiced panic.
Hypnosis is useful because it trains your nervous system to access a performance state on command — not only when things feel easy.
3) Visualization that actually works (not vague daydreaming)
A lot of golfers “visualize” like this:
“I hope I don’t miss left.”
That’s not visualization. That’s anxiety with pictures.
Effective visualization is specific:
the line
the speed
the sound of the ball dropping
the relaxed tempo
the feeling of already having made this putt before
Your brain learns through repetition — real or imagined — and hypnosis is one way to make that repetition more vivid and believable.
4) Break the association between pressure and danger
This is the heart of it.
If your body thinks a 3-footer is a threat, it will behave like it’s under threat.
The goal is to retrain the subconscious so your body responds to pressure with focus — not panic.
5) Make it portable (a routine you can use on the course)
If a method only works in a quiet room, it’s not a golf method.
The win is when you have a pre-shot / pre-putt routine that consistently creates the same state.
“Isn’t this just confidence?” Yes. But confidence is mechanical.
People talk about confidence like it’s a personality trait.
It’s not.
Confidence is usually a combination of:
expectation (what you believe will happen)
familiarity (how often you’ve experienced success in that scenario)
physiology (breathing, tension, heart rate)
focus (where your attention goes under pressure)
When your confidence collapses on the green, something specific is collapsing inside that stack.
Hypnosis, when it works well, doesn’t just hype you up. It trains the underlying mechanisms.
Signs you’re a great candidate for golf hypnosis (yips edition)
You’re likely a strong fit if:
you can hit shots well in practice but choke in competition
you have a “one bad miss” memory you replay constantly
your yips come and go depending on who’s watching
you feel the twitch before it happens
you’ve tried mechanical fixes and still get the same panic response
you’re tired of changing equipment like it’s an exorcism
And yes: even if your yips have a physical component, changing the mental trigger can change the physical expression.
“How many sessions does it take?”
Honest answer: it varies.
But the website includes a real local case study that’s useful context:
A college golfer (D.L.) from Winter Park reported dropping almost 2 shots off his game after working with the program, plus increased confidence and ease on the course.
Also appeared and featured in Golf weekly and Orlando Sentinel
The important thing here isn’t the exact number of sessions. It’s the pattern:
confidence up → tension down → execution improves → results reinforce confidence
That’s the loop we want. The good loop.
What you can do today (even before a session)
If you’re reading this and you want something actionable right now, here’s a fast “stop feeding the yips” checklist.
1) Stop rehearsing failure
If your internal dialogue is “don’t miss,” you’re practicing missing.
Replace it with a single simple instruction you can actually do, like:
“smooth tempo”
“roll it to the front edge”
“commit”
2) Slow exhale before you address the ball
One long exhale tells your nervous system: we’re not dying.
Then you putt.
3) Shorten the time you stand over it
Yips love time.
Build a routine where once you step in, you go.
4) Choose a process goal, not a score goal
Instead of “I need to make this,” choose “I’m committing to speed.”
It sounds small, but it changes your brain’s job from avoid embarrassment to execute a task.
Golf yips treatment Orlando: what to do next
If you’re in the Orlando area and you want help specifically with the mental side of golf performance — including the yips — Orlando Hypnosis Center offers golf hypnosis coaching designed to reduce anxiety, increase focus, and rebuild confident automatic execution.
Conclusion
The yips aren’t proof you’re broken.
They’re proof your subconscious learned a pattern at some point — usually under stress — and now it’s trying to protect you in the dumbest possible way.
The fix isn’t “try harder.”
It’s retraining.
And when you retrain the state, the expectation, and the automatic response under pressure… golf starts feeling like golf again.