Hypnotherapy For IBS
If IBS is running your life rather than the other way round, hypnosis can help you find lasting relief.
At The Hypnosis Clinic, gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS is one of the treatments I feel most confident about recommending — it isn’t a fringe alternative therapy, it’s genuinely evidence-based medicine.
IBS affects an estimated 10–20% of people in the UK. It’s classified as a disorder of gut-brain interaction, and gut-directed hypnotherapy works directly with that connection, rather than only addressing diet or medication in isolation.
Hypnosis can help you find an easier way to make the changes you want. We work together as a team; hypnotist and client, to find the most effective route to calmer, more predictable days.
Today could be the start of getting your gut back on your side.
Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for IBS:
Your step-by-step guide to taking control
Deep relaxation and ego-strengthening
Building overall resilience and confidence in managing symptoms
Long-term self-management skills to use between sessions
Gut-specific visualisation to calm and normalise gut function
Picturing the gut’s activity like a river, and learning to influence its flow
Reducing visceral hypersensitivity at an unconscious level
Breaking the stress-symptom cycle
Anxiety about symptoms no longer feeding further symptoms
More predictable, comfortable days
Hello, I’m Jonathan Garside. To find out more about how gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS can support you, book an appointment.
We work with clients managing every kind of IBS-related challenge, from pain, bloating and altered gut motility, to the anxiety and unpredictability that often comes with it. Whatever your gut has been holding onto, we can help you find some calm and consistency.
At your initial free consultation, you can ask all the questions you want about how hypnotherapy can help you, and it gives us the opportunity to find out more about your symptoms and to plan a strategy that works. It is at this stage that we can work out how many sessions you will need.
Generally, a full course runs to several sessions, and the cost is £250 per one hour session. However, that reduces to £225 per hour when you buy a package of four sessions, saving you £100.
If you’d like some further reading on the mind-gut connection, have a look at our blog.
IBS affects an estimated 10–20% of people in the UK, making it one of the most common gut disorders GPs see. Gut-directed hypnotherapy is recommended in NICE guideline CG61 for people whose symptoms haven’t responded to standard treatment after 12 months. Research shows response rates of roughly 50–70% global symptom improvement, and in one clinical study, 84% of patients achieved a clinically significant reduction in symptom severity — with benefits still present five years later for the majority of people who responded.
Gut-directed hypnotherapy works well as part of a broader approach to IBS, alongside dietary advice and any treatment recommended by your GP or gastroenterologist. Guts UK, the UK’s gut health charity, is a great resource if you’d like to understand more about IBS and the full range of treatment options available.
We understand that IBS shows up differently for everyone; what triggers a flare-up for one person may be entirely different for another. That’s why the support we offer is unique to you.
It’s just one of the reasons that makes us different: we take time to listen and find out what’s driving your symptoms, and what genuine relief would actually look like in your life.
From here, we progress, step-by-step, through gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS, to find and build the calm and consistency for you to feel more in charge of your gut. For now, and the rest of your longer, happier, healthier life.
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Your initial free consultation can be in our Regent St clinic, or via a Telehealth video call to your home.
Of course, change takes time, and to help the process, you may opt to have a specially recorded hypnotic programme to take away and use at home.
Tailor made to your exact needs, the 20 minute audio recording comes on a high quality memory drive for you to use in your own home.
The cost of each programme is £150.
Now is the time to make the permanent changes you want to give you a happier and healthier life.