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What can hypnotherapy help with?
Explore habits, goals, feelings, and experiences you may want support with. If something speaks to you, let’s talk about what you’d like to change.
These are topics to discuss, not a claim that hypnosis is a proven treatment for every item. Evidence and suitability vary. Items marked † involve medical or mental-health concerns; a referral from an appropriate licensed professional may be needed. Hypnotherapy supports your care and does not replace diagnosis, medical treatment, prescribed medication, or emergency care.
A
- Abandonment
- Abdominal pain†
- Addiction†
- Aggression
- Agoraphobia†
- Aligning with your true self
- Anger
- Anxiety†
- Arrogance
- Assertiveness
- Attitude adjustment
- Avoidance
B
- Bed-wetting†
- Body image
- Boundaries
- Breathing and relaxation
- Burnout
C
- Career success
- Changing habits
- Childbirth preparation and coping†
- Chronic pain†
- Communication
- Concentration
- Confidence
- Contrariness
- Controlling behavior
- Coping with chronic illness†
- Cramps†
- Cravings
- Creativity
D
- Decision-making
- Discouragement
- Dream exploration
E
- Eating habits
- Emotional regulation
- Exam anxiety
- Exercise
F
- Fear of animals
- Fear of death
- Fear of dentists
- Fear of doctors
- Fear of failure
- Fear of flying
- Fear of heights
- Fear of losing control
- Fear of school
- Fear of success
- Fear of surgery
- Fear of water
- Fears
- Fixations
- Focus
- Follow-through
- Forgiveness
- Frustration
G
- Gagging†
- Gambling problems†
- Goal achievement
- Grief and loss
- Guilt
H
- Hair twisting
- Headaches†
- Health and longevity habits
- Health anxiety (hypochondria)†
- Healthy habits during healing and recovery†
- Helplessness
- High blood pressure (hypertension)†
- Hopelessness†
- Hostility
- Hot flashes†
I
- Impulsivity
- Indecision
- Inferiority feelings
- Inhibition
- Insecurity
- Insomnia†
- Irrational thoughts
- Irritability
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)†
J
- Jealousy
L
- Lack of ambition
- Lack of direction
- Lack of enthusiasm
- Lack of initiative
- Limiting beliefs
M
- Medication side-effect coping†
- Memory and recall
- Mistrust
- Moodiness
- Motivation
N
- Nail biting
- Nausea†
- Negative emotions and thinking patterns
- Nightmares†
O
- Obsessions†
- Overeating
- Overspending
- Overthinking
P
- Pain management†
- Panic attacks†
- Perfectionism
- Performance anxiety
- Pessimism
- Phobias†
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)†
- Problem-solving
- Procrastination
- Productivity
- Public speaking
R
- Recovery support†
- Rejection
- Relationships
- Relaxation
- Resistance to change
- Responsibility
- Restlessness
S
- Sadness
- Sales confidence and performance
- Scrolling and screen time
- Self-awareness
- Self-blame
- Self-care
- Self-confidence
- Self-control
- Self-criticism
- Self-defeating behaviors
- Self-esteem
- Self-expression
- Self-forgiveness
- Self-image and self-love
- Self-mastery
- Sexual difficulties (including erectile dysfunction)†
- Shame
- Skin picking†
- Skin-problem coping†
- Sleep disorders†
- Smoking cessation
- Social anxiety†
- Sports performance
- Stage fright
- Stress
- Stubbornness
- Study habits
- Stuttering†
- Substance-use problems†
- Superiority feelings
- Surgical preparation and recovery†
T
- Tardiness
- Temptation
- Thumb sucking†
- Tics†
- Trauma and traumatic experiences†
U
- Ulcer-related coping†
- Unhappiness
V
- Vaping cessation
- Victimization
W
- Weight loss
- Worry
- Writer’s block
Techniques and experiences to discuss
- Biofeedback
- Self-hypnosis
- Past-life regression (imaginative or spiritual exploration, not verified memory recovery)
Ask about availability and whether an approach is appropriate for your goals.