Gastric Band Hypnotherapy

NottinghamBalance Hypnosis

The Method

Gastric Band Hypnotherapy uses a combination of therapies to help clients lose weight.

Hypnosis – To give positive suggestion and to create subconscious change. Also where necessary analytical hypnotherapy to understand why a person is overeating.

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to break down the negative patterns of behaviour and to give new alternatives.

Mindfulness – Making a client increase their awareness of what they are eating.

NLP – In our case we also use Neuro-Linguistic Programming to create positive change.

Session One

An assessment of the clients situation is taken. This is to understand not only the problem with overeating but to see if other factors are at play such as stress, anxiety or depression.

The client is given a list of mindful eating rules to follow between the sessions.

The client is instructed to create a food diary but this is in a different format to the usual dieting diaries as it will look at emotions whilst eating.

A session of suggestion hypnosis is given to suggest that the persons stomach is reducing in size so they will be unable to eat large portion sizes.

The client Is given an audio to take home with them.

Sessions Two and Three

The practitioner will review and discuss the food diary. The hypnotherapist will assess whether there has been any

noticeable change in eating patterns. Further hypnosis sessions now take place using analytical hypnosis to

help understand the root cause of the problem. Once the root cause of a problem is established work begins on

educating and persuading the subconscious to create new alternative ways of thinking.

When this work is complete a suggestion hypnosis session is carried out where the client meets their virtual surgeon under hypnosis and has an operation pre-talk.

Session Four

The Hypno-Band virtual operation takes place. Under hypnosis the client is given suggestions that they are entering

hospital for a gastric band operation The client is guided from the hospital room to the operating theatre

and then to the recovery room. The main suggestions given involve tightness of the stomach,

limitations on the amount that can be eaten and leaving food on the plate.

Session Five

Between two to four weeks later the client will return to the hypnotherapist for an update on their progress.

Clients who are doing well and losing weight easily will have a reinforcing session to help the weight loss suggestions stick.

If a client is losing weight at a slower pace then the client is guided into hypnosis and a bad adjustment is given to tighten the band.

The client is instructed to continue listening to the audio and using the mindful eating techniques until they get to their goal weight.

Session Timings

Each session should last for approximately one hour. Sessions are usually held one to two weeks apart It is possible to complete gastric band hypnosis in one session

however it is unlikely that the analytical part of the session will be as useful.

If gastric band hypnosis is to be completed in one session it should primarily be done via suggestion hypnosis.

For more details:

Contact Balance Hypnosis www.balancehypnotherapynottingham.co.uk Telephone 01636 650 521