Weight Loss Hypnotherapy London
Hello, I’m Susannah. I am a fully qualified clinical hypnotherapist and weight loss specialist, with over 22 years of experience helping people to lose weight healthily.
Losing weight is one of the best things you can do for your health and confidence, but if you’ve struggled to make lasting changes in the past, you’ll know how frustrating it can be. Diets work for a while, then something happens and you’re back where you started. It’s not a lack of knowledge or willpower. It’s that your eating habits are driven by your subconscious mind, and until that changes, the cycle will keep repeating.
I have a specialist interest in weight loss hypnotherapy, having helped many clients break free from emotional eating to lose weight healthily. I use a combination of clinical hypnosis and NLP to change the subconscious patterns that drive unhealthy eating habits.
Whether you eat when you’re stressed, bored or upset, or just feel out of control around food, hypnotherapy for weight loss can help you silence the food noise and find peace. If you’re ready to build a healthier relationship with food and your body, I’d be happy to support you.
To learn more about my weight loss hypnosis programme, get in touch.
Common reasons to seek hypnotherapy for weight loss:
- Emotional eating in response to stress, boredom or low mood
- Snacking in the evenings or late at night
- Cravings for sugar, carbs or “comfort foods”
- Yo-yo dieting and weight cycling
- Feeling “addicted” to certain foods
- Using food as a reward or coping mechanism
- Struggling to stay motivated with exercise
- Negative body image and low self-esteem
- Feeling out of control around food
- Eating past fullness or grazing throughout the day
Susannah Saunders
Hello, my name is Susannah. I am a clinical hypnotherapist and life coach in London with over 20 years of experience helping people to enjoy a happier, more fulfilling life. Get in touch to find out more or book an appointment in London today.
NLP, Coaching and Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss
Many of the people I work with already know a lot about nutrition and how to lose weight healthily, but find it difficult to turn that knowledge into consistent, long-term habits. If this sounds familiar, it’s not a lack of willpower. Your brain has simply learned certain automatic responses around food, stress and reward. Weight loss hypnotherapy works by helping your brain learn new, healthier patterns around food and exercise. When eating becomes tied to stress relief, comfort or reward, your subconscious mind drives the behaviour, making it difficult to override through willpower alone.
During weight loss hypnosis, we work with that deeper part of your mind. In a relaxed, focused state, your brain becomes more open to new ideas and habits. We use positive imagery and mental rehearsal in hypnosis to help you picture yourself eating in a calmer, more balanced way, paying attention to what your body needs and speaking to yourself in a more supportive way.
Through my guided weight-loss hypnosis sessions, we will address limiting beliefs and unhelpful subconscious programming, and reinforce calm, confident choices around food and exercise. Coaching and NLP help you turn these changes into practical, everyday actions. Every hypnotherapy for weight loss programme is tailored to your needs and lifestyle.
Weight Loss Hypnotherapy and Coaching Can Help You:
- Reduce emotional and stress-related eating
- Feel more in control around trigger foods
- Change “all or nothing” thinking about diets
- Build steadier, more balanced eating habits
- Improve motivation for movement and self-care
- Strengthen body confidence and self-respect
- Make healthier choices without constant inner battles
- Create a realistic plan for how to lose weight healthily
How Weight Loss Hypnosis Works
Traditional dieting often focuses on external rules: what you can and can’t eat, how many calories you “should” have, or how much you weigh. Restrictive plans, “all or nothing” thinking and quick-fix promises often lead to short-term progress followed by a rebound, leaving you feeling discouraged and frustrated. Weight loss hypnosis focuses on the internal drivers, such as the thoughts, emotions and automatic patterns that shape your behaviour.
When you repeatedly turn to food for comfort, distraction or reward, your brain learns to associate eating with relief. Over time, this becomes a well-rehearsed pathway. Under stress, your mind automatically steers you towards the same choices, even if you consciously want something different.
During weight loss hypnosis, we work directly with those underlying associations. While you’re in a deeply relaxed state, we use gentle suggestions and imagery to help your mind unlink food from emotional relief and reconnect with your natural signals of hunger, fullness and satisfaction. NLP techniques help you change the inner dialogue that fuels overeating, and coaching supports you to put small, realistic changes into action between sessions.
If you would like to find out how I can help, let's talk
The Science Behind Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss
Your brain is constantly trying to keep you safe and comfortable. When it believes that certain foods are the fastest way to feel better, it will push you towards them, often with intense cravings. Stress hormones can also play a role, increasing appetite and making it harder to resist high-sugar, high-fat foods.
Weight loss hypnotherapy works by calming the nervous system and creating new mental pathways around food, reward and self-control. Research suggests that hypnosis can enhance the effects of lifestyle changes, helping some people lose more weight and maintain their progress more effectively than with diet and exercise alone.
From a behavioural science perspective, hypnosis supports habit change by reducing stress and emotional arousal, strengthening your focus on long-term goals instead of short-term impulses, and reinforcing new routines and self-beliefs. Combined with sensible guidance on how to lose weight healthily, such as balanced meals, portion awareness and regular movement, my weight loss hypnotherapy sessions can be a powerful addition to your toolkit.
How Difficult Eating Patterns Show Up
Unhelpful eating patterns can show up in many different ways. You might find yourself eating quickly, barely tasting your food, or continuing to eat even when you’re comfortably full. Perhaps you pick throughout the day, grabbing snacks between tasks, or feel a strong urge to eat in the evening once you finally relax.
Some people describe using food as a way to switch off from work, soothe loneliness, or fill an emotional gap. Others notice that weight gain has crept up slowly over time, linked to busy lifestyles, convenience foods and reduced movement. You might have a wardrobe of “just in case” clothes in different sizes, or feel uncomfortable in photos or social situations.
These patterns can create guilt, shame and self-criticism, which often lead to more eating as a way to cope. Weight loss hypnosis with me can help break this cycle by calming the emotional drivers, building self-compassion, and rewiring your brain to develop healthier strategies.
What Drives Weight Struggles
Weight struggles are usually a combination of learned habits, emotional responses, environment, hormones, sleep, stress and sometimes past experiences. Diet culture can add to the problem, encouraging extreme approaches that are impossible to maintain long term.
Genetics and metabolism play a role in how easily you gain or lose weight, but they don’t tell the whole story. Sleep deprivation, chronic stress and irregular eating can all influence appetite, cravings and energy levels. Many people also carry unhelpful beliefs such as “I always fail at diets” or “I’ll never be able to change,” which make it harder to stay motivated.
Hypnotherapy for weight loss acknowledges these factors and works alongside them. By calming the stress response, improving sleep and reducing emotional dependence on food, we create conditions that support your body’s natural ability to reach a healthier weight. My weight loss hypnotherapy sessions focus on realistic, sustainable steps rather than perfection.
Is Weight Loss Hypnotherapy a Quick Fix?
Weight loss hypnosis is not a magic fix, although people have experienced immediate changes. It won’t make you “forget” certain foods or suddenly change your body overnight. What it can do is make change feel easier and more natural by aligning your subconscious habits with your conscious goals.
If you’ve spent years or decades battling with food and weight, those patterns are well-rehearsed. Hypnotherapy for weight loss helps you begin to rewrite them, but like any meaningful change, it takes repetition and commitment. Most of my clients notice shifts in how they think and feel about food quite quickly, and these psychological changes are often the foundation for steady, sustainable physical progress.
Weight loss hypnotherapy works best when it’s combined with a realistic plan for how to lose weight healthily, like balanced meals, regular movement, and self-care, rather than extreme restriction. Together in my sessions, we focus on building long-term habits that you can live with, not a short-term “fix” that is impossible to maintain.
Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss in London & Online
My private London hypnotherapy practice was founded in 2003. I have been awarded the Senior Qualification of Hypnotherapy Practice (SQHP) from the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) and the HPD from the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH).
For more information on my hypnotherapy for weight loss programmes and how I can help you build a calmer, healthier relationship with food, either in my London hypnotherapy clinic or online, get in touch. We can talk through your particular concerns, challenges and goals, and I can explain how I work and help you in your weight loss journey.
If you would like to find out how I can help, let's talk
FAQs
How many hypnotherapy sessions will I need for weight loss?
Everyone is different. Some people notice helpful changes in their eating patterns within a few sessions, while others benefit from a longer programme to support deeper habit change. As a guide, most of my clients start with 3 to 6 sessions and then review progress.
What is hypnotherapy for weight loss?
Hypnotherapy for weight loss uses a relaxed, focused state of awareness to help you change unhelpful habits, beliefs and emotional responses around food and activity. It works with the subconscious mind, where many of your automatic patterns are stored, so change feels more natural and less like a constant battle.
Does weight loss hypnosis really work?
Research suggests that weight loss hypnosis can support lifestyle change and may enhance the effects of healthy eating and exercise for some people. It is not a stand-alone cure, but many clients find it helps them reduce emotional eating, cravings and self-sabotage, making it easier to stick to healthier choices.
Will I lose control during hypnosis?
No. In my sessions, you remain aware, able to hear everything that’s said, and in control throughout the session. Hypnosis is similar to being absorbed in a book or daydream. You can open your eyes and come out of it at any point if you wish.
Is weight loss hypnotherapy a replacement for diet and exercise?
No. Weight loss hypnotherapy is designed to complement evidence-based guidance on how to lose weight healthily, not replace it. We’ll focus on helping you follow through on realistic nutrition and movement choices that suit your life, rather than prescribing strict diets.
What if I’ve tried every diet and nothing has worked long term?
Many clients come to me after years of dieting, feeling fed up and stuck. Weight loss hypnotherapy offers a different approach by addressing the underlying factors that keep fueling old habits. Instead of another strict plan, my weight loss hypnotherapy sessions focus on changing your relationship with food and with yourself, so that healthier choices become easier to maintain.
Do you offer weight loss hypnotherapy online?
Yes. All sessions can be held online via Zoom. Many clients prefer this because they can relax in their own space, which often supports the hypnosis process. You just need a quiet, comfortable place and a reliable internet connection.
Contact me today to book a session
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