Hypnotherapy for weight loss
Hi Sam
Good luck with the hypnotherapy - I'm a full-time hypnotherapist and I can assure you it works very very well. The only thing that hasn't been discussed on the forum is how long it lasts...its not permanent (sadly.) The suggestions used in a hypnotherapy session will last around 4 weeks for the 'average' person and they'll wear off gradually over that time.
Hypnosis is very good for either kick-starting a diet (you'd have one session and then, if you wanted come back for another as and when you needed it,) or for undergoing a course of sessions (we offer a free CD, which you can use forever more if you want,) a full no-diet programme, with a manual, showing you how you can get off the diet merry-go-round once and for all and only eat when you're hungry, but eat WHATEVER you want...no guilt and amazingly you'll find that you'll end up eating so much healthier if you listen to your own body.
I also do support groups for the major diet groups (weight watchers, rosemary conley etc) to help keep up and re-start motivation.
I practice from a complementary health centre in Bedford and our offices are not the norm by any means for our profession -often you'll find hypnotherapists working from home or from a back room, which is not a terrible thing but their surroundings will match their 'busy-ness' if you like. Sadly, in hypnotherapy, as in all things in life, you pretty much get what you pay for. I know someone in Bedford charging £30 per session for stop smoking but I also know she puts on a CD player and walks out of the room...I personally think thats offensive and extremely unprofessional. We tailor every one of our sessions to the client in our consulting room at that time - if you don't it won't work for most of them....after all we're not battery hens!
If you're looking for well-trained, professional, INSURED hypnotherapists you could have a look at our professional organisation's website -
SuccessfulHypnotherapy.co.uk There's a map of the country and you can find my colleagues on there - I'm a Council member of the IAPH so I'd vouch for their training being second to none (we're psychoanalysts too, which mean we use 99% psychology, 1% hypnosis - the hypnosis is only as good as the person using it.)
Our specialist therapy is HypnoAnalysis, which looks for the root cause of why people overeat, suffer from depression, panic attacks, fears, phobias, anxiety and a whole list of other symptoms. They all come from the same root cause - bottled up anxiety. Once you've dealt with that the weight will literally just drop off you.
The other thing to say about hypnosis is that you actually do have to exert some willpower for it to work really really well - we can't make you do something you don't want to, but we can make it very, very easy for you, and enjoyable too. Who doesn't want to feel good about themselves, that's what we do.
Hope this lot helps. I wish you the very best and I'm sure you'll do really well.
Sue Wilson