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What happens during IBS hypnotherapy?

IBS hypnotherapy, also called gut-directed hypnotherapy, aims to reduce sensitivity in the gut by addressing any emotional triggers for your symptoms. For many people with IBS, their digestive symptom flare ups go hand-in-hand with stress and poor mental wellbeing. This can be a hard cycle to break - with stress being both a trigger for, and outcome of, digestive discomfort, inconvenience, and pain.

Does hypnotherapy work for IBS?

There's a growing body of evidence that hypnotherapy for IBS is a viable and effective treatment - both for the digestive symptoms of this condition and related anxiety and depression - because hypnosis allows access to unconscious brain processes involved in the gut-brain axis3.

Psychological interventions – including hypnotherapy and CBT - are recommended by the National Institiute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for people with IBS who don't respond to IBS drugs after 12 months.

Hypnotherapy for IBS: the gut-brain axis
Peer reviewed by Dr Krishna Vakharia, MRCGPLast updated by Amberley DavisLast updated 26 Jan 2024

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