Food Addiction Brisbane
Is food addiction that relentless cycle where the first comforting bite soothes your emotions, only for creeping guilt and an insistent hunger to drag you back for more even after you’re already painfully full?
FAQs
1. How does hypnotherapy help with food addiction?
Food addiction is driven by subconscious emotional patterns — comfort, reward, stress relief, or escape — not by lack of willpower.
Clive’s award-winning hypnotherapy helps retrain your mind so food no longer controls your emotions or your choices.
2. Why do I keep eating even when I’m not hungry?
Because your subconscious links food to emotional soothing.
Hypnosis helps break those associations so you stop using food as an automatic coping mechanism.
3. Can hypnotherapy stop binge eating or overeating?
Yes.
By calming the emotional triggers behind cravings, hypnosis reduces binge urges and restores self-control.
4. Why is food addiction so hard to break?
Because food activates dopamine, comfort, and childhood patterns.
Hypnotherapy rewires these deep emotional loops at the subconscious level, where real change happens.
5. How many sessions before I notice a difference?
Most clients feel shifts quickly — reduced cravings, calmer emotions, and better decision-making within just a few sessions.
6. Can hypnotherapy help with emotional eating?
Absolutely.
Hypnosis teaches your mind healthier ways to deal with stress, sadness, boredom, loneliness, or overwhelm.
7. What if I eat to deal with anxiety or stress?
Hypnotherapy helps you regulate emotions in a calmer, healthier way — so food stops being your emotional “escape button.”
8. Can hypnosis help stop late-night eating or snacking?
Yes.
Hypnosis weakens nighttime triggers and builds stronger self-control so your evenings feel peaceful instead of chaotic.
9. Will hypnotherapy make me stop enjoying food?
No — unless that's what you want.
The goal is balance, not restriction.
You regain control so you eat because you choose to, not because you feel compelled to.
10. Can hypnotherapy help with comfort eating?
Yes.
Clive helps replace emotional comfort-eating with genuine emotional safety, resilience, and inner calm.
11. What if I feel ashamed or guilty about my eating habits?
You are not alone — and you are not failing.
Clive provides a safe, compassionate, judgment-free space so shame dissolves and confidence rebuilds.
12. Can hypnotherapy help if I constantly think about food?
Absolutely.
Hypnosis calms obsessive thought patterns so your mind feels lighter, clearer, and more focused.
13. Can hypnosis help me stop craving specific foods like chocolate, bread, chips, or fast food?
Yes.
Hypnotherapy works on the craving mechanism itself, no matter the type of food.
14. Does online hypnotherapy work for food addiction?
Yes — and often even better, because sessions take place in the environment where your patterns actually occur.
15. What if I eat when I’m lonely, bored, or overwhelmed?
Hypnosis helps heal the emotional void beneath the habit so you stop turning to food for emotional support.
16. Can hypnotherapy help me lose weight by reducing food addiction?
Often, yes.
As cravings decrease and discipline increases, weight loss becomes a natural side effect — not a forced one.
17. What if I’ve tried diets, apps, calorie counting, or willpower and still fail?
Traditional methods target the conscious mind, but addiction lives in the subconscious.
Hypnotherapy creates change where it actually matters.
18. Can hypnotherapy help with portion control?
Yes.
Hypnosis strengthens internal discipline, helping your body recognise hunger and fullness accurately.
19. What if food addiction is tied to trauma or childhood experiences?
Clive works gently and safely, helping you release emotional imprints without reliving past pain.
20. How does hypnotherapy create long-term freedom from food addiction?
By teaching your subconscious to:
Release emotional dependence on food
Reduce cravings
Build stronger self-control
Develop healthier coping strategies
Strengthen self-worth and inner safety
Break old habits and form lasting new ones
You don’t just change your eating habits —
you become someone who feels calm, confident, empowered, and fully in control of your relationship with food.
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Food Addiction Hypnotherapy Study
Study / Evidence
There is a study showing that Ericksonian hypnosis and self-hypnosis reduced eating disinhibition (i.e. impulsive overeating) in adults with obesity and high food impulsivity, compared to standard nutritional education. ScienceDirect
A narrative review of hypnotherapy in overweight/obese patients reports that many hypnotherapy studies include dieting rules or behavioral components, making it hard to isolate the “pure” effect of hypnosis on food addiction behaviours. ScienceDirect
More generally, hypnosis is proposed as a tool to reduce food cravings, change subconscious associations with food, and help with impulse control—but much of that is theoretical or based on weaker evidence. Le Guide Santé+1
Conclusion
Hypnotherapy shows promise for helping with aspects of food addiction—especially cravings, impulsivity and emotional eating—but the evidence is not yet robust.
Most studies combine hypnosis with diet, behavior therapy or other supports, which makes it hard to know how much of the effect is from hypnotherapy alone.
Before hypnotherapy can be confidently recommended as a treatment for food addiction, randomized controlled trials focused specifically on that use are needed.
Link to a key study
“Hypnosis reduces food impulsivity in patients with obesity and high food impulsivity”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652200288X