Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for IBS & More Digestive Symptoms
I've lived with digestive distress, including IBS, since childhood. It's one reason gut-directed hypnosis became a focus of my practice.
Experiencing urgency, discomfort, sensitivity, pain, anxiety, or anticipation around digestion?
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Anastasia's story
I know this pattern from the inside
I’ve had IBS since I was six. My childhood was mostly ruled by bathrooms and pain. When I moved to US at sixteen, it got so much worse.
There were nights the pain was so bad I couldn’t lie down. I’d sleep on my knees hunched over the side of the bed because that was the only position that gave any relief. For over a year, I could only eat oatmeal and rice.
That experience eventually led me to study hypnosis, the gut-brain connection, and gut-directed hypnotherapy.
"I have emerged with improvements that far exceed the benefits of all my previous efforts combined."
Verified client · Hypnosis for IBS · San Jose
My experience with IBS
My background
- NGH Certified Consulting Hypnotist, Cert #69925
- ICBCH Board Certified
- 8+ years helping clients with IBS and gut issues
- Personal experience living with IBS since age six
The Real Struggle
Before finding gut-directed hypnotherapy, you’ve probably already been through elimination diets, supplements, testing, medications, and endless online research, all while trying to manage unpredictable symptoms.
Beyond Symptom Management
The gut has its own nervous system.
Elimination diets work until they don't. Medication may help manage symptoms, yet you may continue to struggle despite trying one approach after another. You can know every trigger and still be caught off guard by what happens next.
Its movement, sensitivity, and constant communication with the brain all influence how digestion feels and functions.
Stress and life's demands can affect that communication, sometimes making an already sensitive digestive system even more reactive. Certain responses can become conditioned over time, almost as though danger is coming.
Once the response is set, it can run on autopilot. Knowing your triggers doesn't always stop it because the response can fire before your conscious mind gets involved.
