Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss & Eating Habits
Weight loss and healthy eating are key to maintaining a balanced lifestyle, yet many struggle with creating lasting habits due to emotional, psychological, and environmental challenges.
Weight Loss & Eating Habits: Achieve Lasting Change with Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss & Eating Habits: Eating habits and weight management are integral to our overall health and well-being. Our minds are designed to respond to food cues, emotions, and stress, influencing our eating patterns and choices. When in balance, these responses can help us nourish our bodies and maintain a healthy weight.
However, in today’s fast-paced world, emotional triggers, stress, and ingrained habits can cause us to overeat or make unhealthy food choices. These patterns can become difficult to break, leaving us feeling trapped and disconnected from our health goals.
A solution-focused hypnotherapy approach can help you address the root causes of unhealthy eating habits, empowering you to make lasting changes and achieve a balanced, healthy relationship with food.
Signs of Weight Loss & Eating Habits Challenges We Can Help With
Recognizing the Signs of Unhealthy Weight and Eating Patterns
Emotional Eating: Using food to cope with stress, sadness, or boredom.
Cravings: Intense desire for sugary, salty, or processed foods.
Lack of Portion Control: Overeating or struggling to stop once full.
Inconsistent Eating Habits: Skipping meals or frequent binge eating.
Low Energy: Feeling sluggish and unmotivated due to poor nutrition.
Negative Body Image: Dissatisfaction or shame about appearance.
Stress-Driven Choices: Turning to unhealthy foods during stressful times.
Difficulty Maintaining Weight: Struggling with weight fluctuations or plateaus.
How Can Hypnotherapy Help With Weight Loss & Eating Habits?
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy can help you break free from unhealthy eating habits and create a sustainable path toward better health. Together, we’ll explore the emotional and psychological factors influencing your eating patterns and identify practical strategies to overcome them. You’ll be guided to visualize a future where you feel in control of your choices and take small, manageable steps to achieve your goals.
For challenges like emotional eating or food cravings, we use quick, effective techniques to address the triggers that fuel these behaviors. Through hypnosis, we work with your subconscious mind to reinforce positive, lasting change, helping you build a healthier relationship with food.
These methods are rooted in neuroscience, using a natural process to reprogram the brain and support a balanced approach to eating and weight management.
Stephen Hardy
DSFH, HPD, AfSFH, MNCH (Reg.), CNHC (Reg.)
I’m a clinical solution-focused hypnotherapist and coach.
My mission is to help people have more fulfilling, fun lives and careers.
As a clinical hypnotherapist, I work with both the conscious and subconscious minds, using a combination of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, CBT, and Neuroscience, mixed in with my experience of working in senior corporate positions.
The goal is to enable rapid positive change, through helping clients reframe their thinking, and creating new patterns of behaviour. It’s a positive, fun approach.
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Free Discovery Call
We'll spend 30 minutes exploring your current challenges and establishing whether Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is a good fit for you.
The relationship between a therapist and a client is fundamental to the success of any engagement. This is an opportunity to get to know me and find out if my style of engagement would work for you.
You will gain a fresh perspective on what's been holding you back, and confidence in your ability to move forward in life.
An opportunity for you to ask me any questions or address any concerns you may have.
FAQs
What is Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy? How does it differ from more traditional therapy?
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is a proven, fast and effective agent for long term change, and has been successfully deployed in several organisations including Northumbria Police.
I take a holistic approach to supporting clients, addressing the cause of their problems, not just the symptoms. Unlike some other therapies, I don’t focus on a client’s issues beyond gaining an initial understanding. I also don’t perform any regression work or focus on past trauma. Sessions are conducted in a solution-focused manner, helping clients move forward with their lives. I use a combination of NLP, CBT, neuroscience, and hypnotherapy to facilitate rapid change in our clients. The goal of solution-focused hypnotherapy is to enable rapid, sustainable change.
Is Hypnotherapy safe? Will I lose control?
I use an element of trance in sessions to accelerate the therapeutic process, with solution-focused hypnotherapy being a core element of sessions. Trance is a very familiar state. All of us go into trance many times every day, for example, when we’re focusing on something we love doing, driving a regular route, or jogging. Trance is when the conscious and subconscious minds come together in focus, allowing you to access the vast resource library in your subconscious and helping you to get the very best out of yourself. It’s a myth that anyone can make you do something against your will in trance. You’re always in control, and your mind will “wake” you if it doesn’t feel safe or if there’s something you need to address. Typically, clients find this part of the process very relaxing and enjoyable.
Do you provide online sessions, and if so, are they as effective as in-person sessions?
Yes and yes!
Since Covid, many people have developed a preference for online interactions. The bulk of my sessions are now conducted over Zoom, giving clients the opportunity to relax within the comfort of their own homes.
The only request is that you ensure you have access to decent WiFi and are in a place where you can comfortably relax with minimal distractions.
Are there any conditions you can’t treat?
I specialise in working with clients who have mild to moderate anxiety or depression and related disorders. As a solution-focused hypnotherapist, I also work with individuals with high levels of anxiety or depression; however, clients need to be aware that this can be a longer process, and they may need to do this in conjunction with taking medication as diagnosed by their medical professional.
Suffering from a psychotic episode can mean that hypnosis is contraindicated, therefore hypnotherapy should not be received in that scenario. Those with a history of psychosis but who aren’t currently suffering from a psychotic episode can benefit from hypnotherapy to help address anxiety-related disorders.
Some physical ailments can be psychosomatic, but it’s important that they are properly assessed by a medical professional.
How many sessions does it take to overcome anxiety?
Everyone is different and I take a client led approach. You know how you feel and how many sessions you need to get to where you want to.
From experience, roughly 10-12 sessions is probably a good rule of thumb, however some people have significantly less, some a few more.