Calm your gut
- Change response to stomach pain, food phobias and IBS - and minimise food allergy
If you’re navigating ongoing digestive discomfort - whether food allergies or intolerances, heightened sensitivity to certain foods, recurrent stomach pain or the patterns of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - and your symptoms persist despite standard diet or medical advice, it may be time to explore a mind-body supportive approach. At CE-Hypnosis we provide a tailored hypnotherapeutic programme designed to complement your existing healthcare pathway, helping you reduce symptom burden, calm the gut-brain connection and restore steadier internal harmony.
For serious conditions (e.g. severe food allergy with risk of anaphylaxis) this is only an additional help to your medical advice and support, to retrain for less response.
What can CE-hypnosis help address?
Food Allergy and sensitivities
Many clients with food-based reactions report sensations of bloating, stomach pain, dramatic fatigue, or intolerance to foods that previously seemed fine. These may be mediated by immune responses, stress-triggered gut-barrier changes, or habitual subconscious responses to food triggers.
When your system seems fine medically, yet certain foods continue to cause upset - you may be in the realm of food sensitivity or intolerance. Habitual patterns (like always eating a certain trigger food, or worrying about reactions) often keep the cycle alive.
Hypnotherapy may help by:
Calming the gut–brain axis and letting the body respond in a less reactive way to food triggers.
Reducing emotional stress and anticipating reactions (which often amplify tolerance issues).
Supporting better digestion and addressing emotional or habit-based responses
Enhancing your body’s resilience so you can widen your tolerance band and restore digestive ease.
While hypnotherapy does not replace elimination diets, allergy testing or medical supervision, it offers a powerful supportive pathway when sensitivity persists despite standard approaches.
PS Celiac issues cannot be helped with hypnotherapy.
Food phobia or ARFID
Food phobia and ARFID involve more than just “being picky”. In ARFID the nervous system often treats certain foods as threats - the texture, taste, smell or even the anticipation of eating triggers fear, gagging, avoidance or intense anxiety. The internal system has associated certain foods as unsafe and responds as though confronted with real danger.
Food phobia is typically fear-based and often linked to a specific past event, such as choking, vomiting, or food poisoning. The body remembers the experience as dangerous, and anxiety becomes attached to the act of eating. Hypnotherapy helps by re-training this automatic fear response, allowing the person to feel safe and calm again when eating previously avoided foods.
ARFID, on the other hand, is usually sensory or neurological rather than rooted in a single traumatic event. In ARFID the nervous system often treats certain foods as threats - the texture, taste, smell or even the anticipation of eating triggers fear, gagging, avoidance or intense anxiety. The internal system has associated certain foods as unsafe and responds as though confronted with real danger.
Hypnotherapy addresses these patterns by working with the mind–body connection. While conventional treatments often focus on diet, exposure and behaviour, hypnotherapy reaches the subconscious where the fear is stored by calming the body’s defensive response, rebuilding a sense of safety, and helping the nervous system adapt to new foods in a relaxed, positive way.
IBS or Stomach pain
IBS and recurring stomach pain often involve heightened visceral sensitivity, nervous system dysregulation, gut-brain mis-communication and stress-induced flare-ups.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and unexplained stomach pain often have no clear structural cause, even after years of tests and dietary changes. For many people, the discomfort isn’t “all in the head” - but it is strongly influenced by the gut–brain connection. When stress, worry, or tension build up, the autonomic nervous system can over-activate, tightening the gut’s muscles, slowing or speeding digestion, and heightening pain sensitivity. Over time, the body learns this pattern, and it can repeat even without a trigger - a kind of gut memory.
Hypnotherapy usually helps by:
Down-regulating the autonomic nervous system so that gut spasms, pain cycles and urgency become less aggressive.
Re-training the body-mind pattern so that symptoms aren’t triggered by stress, emotion or expectation.
Giving you tools (self-hypnosis, imagery, habit-change) so you carry resilience between sessions.
Why hypnotherapy to aid food allergies, Digestion issues, food phobias and IBS
There’s a growing body of research showing that the way we digest food - and even how we experience appetite or discomfort - is deeply influenced by the mind–body connection. The gut and brain constantly communicate through a two-way network of nerves, hormones and immune messengers. When stress, anxiety or past experiences disrupt this balance, the digestive system can overreact, tighten, or shut down altogether.
At CE-Hypnosis, sessions are tailored to address both emotional and physiological triggers. Through guided relaxation and subconscious learning, the body begins to self-regulate again - reducing flare-ups, calming discomfort, and restoring healthy rhythm to digestion. Whether your symptoms come from fear of food, sensory overwhelm, or long-standing IBS, hypnotherapy provides a gentle, evidence-based way to retrain your body’s responses and rebuild confidence around eating and comfort. You will be treated in a supportive, respectful environment where your medical care is honoured and psychological/behavioural factors are approached gently and effectively.
Mushroom allergy gone
I’ve suffered from a severe mushroom allergy ever since I was little. Even a tiny piece of mushroom or any form of mushroom in a sauce was enough to make me extremely ill—I’d end up in the emergency room with symptoms ranging from swelling, fever, and rashes to stomach pain, vomiting, and cramps.
It wasn’t just physically tough but mentally as well. I could never relax when eating away from home—whether at relatives’ houses, parties, or restaurants—because I was constantly worried about what might be in the food.
However, after a few sessions with Camilla at CE-hypnosis, everything changed. Her therapy method helped me overcome my allergy in a way I never thought possible.
Now I can eat both raw and cooked mushrooms without worrying. I don’t know if anyone can truly understand the enormous difference this has made.
Camilla did recommend that I continue carrying emergency medication just to be safe, but I’ve actually been symptom-free for over three years now.
I sincerely recommend her and her methods. It really works—whether you believe in it or not!
It has truly made a huge difference for the rest of my life.
Fredrik
IBS & Stomach pain
It was in the beginning of the day. In fact, as I know now, it was the beginning of a new part in my life, really.
I have been to three doctors, who – fortunately – did not find anything wrong with me.
Immediately after my session with Camilla, I felt relieved and experienced lots of little changes and adjustments taking place in my body and my mind. I have rarely experienced such intimacy before, let alone on Skype. Camilla was so there, in the moment with me.
Two days later, I am laying on the couch, where I just enjoyed a delicious pizza, which I would NOT have done before our session, due to my stomach pain.
Now, I will happily continue my healthy lifestyle, knowing that I CAN take a sidestep, when I choose to.
I feel free, light and happy. Thank you.
Felix
What does an Hypnotherapy session look like?
Working together at CE-Hypnosis is gentle, professional, and personal. You remain in control at all times - aware, and safe.
1. Conversation & mapping:
We explore your story, typical triggers and view possible short term goals and longterm goals.
2. Guided hypnotic relaxation:
You remain aware and in charge while the body settles into a receptive state many describe as “comfortable, rested but focused.” Which also is very healthy for your mind.
3. The therapy work:
From the mapping (the therapy work itself) to using many different tools to make changes whilst you are comfortable relaxed.
4. Response re-learning:
We use targeted suggestions and sensory imagery to re-pair familiar triggers with new interpretations, so your system practices staying steady.
5. Visualization & suggestive support:
Visuals (e.g. different scenarios) and suggestions are used to reinforce new response patterns.
6. Homework between sessions or sensory exercises depending on your energy level and memory:
Short home practices help you reinforce change. Adding personalised tips for different issues.
7. Follow-up:
Measure what’s changing, and optimize your path forward in the right pace (not stress).
While conscious, talk-based therapy works mainly through rational understanding and discussion, hypnotherapy engages both the conscious and subconscious mind - the part of you that runs emotional, automatic, and habitual responses.
This difference often makes change faster, deeper, and more natural.
Stomach issues and nausea
I sought help for anxiety/stress, which in many cases resulted in nausea and a stressed stomach.
After two sessions of hypnotherapy with Camilla, I felt none of the previously described symptoms.
I highly recommend Camilla!!
Filip
Food allergy
Professional, relaxing and for real!
I have now gotten rid of a lifelong allergy after only a few visits.
IBS & Stomach pain
After almost 3 years of examinations with all that comes along with it, without finding cause and no results to my daughters stomach pain we received eminent help from Camilla and right now our daughter is doing so much better and also has better self-confidence and self-esteem etc.
Thanks! :=)
Thomas P
The Mind-Body possibilities with Hypnotherapy
Your gut is more than a tube. It’s intimately linked to your nervous system, immune function and emotional state. When stress is high, digestion slows, gut-barrier permeability may increase, and sensitivity to foods escalates. Hypnotherapy helps by accessing the gut–brain axis, calming autonomic over-drive and installing healthier patterns of response.
Hypnotherapy offers a direct way to restore balance within this mind–body loop.
In a relaxed hypnotic state, the body’s fight-or-flight response eases and the rest-and-digest system re-engages. Through targeted imagery and positive suggestion, clients learn to calm gut sensitivity, reduce pain or nausea, and rebuild a sense of safety around eating.
Clinical research on gut-directed hypnotherapy shows measurable improvements in bowel function, inflammation markers, and emotional wellbeing. These same mechanisms can support people whose food reactions, intolerances or fears are influenced by stress or nervous-system overactivation.
Food allergens - Hypnotherapy helps calm the body’s stress and immune responses - retraining how the mind and gut react to food triggers, and supporting a more balanced reaction to allergens.
While hypnotherapy can ease symptoms linked to food intolerance or mild allergy, it’s important to note that coeliac disease and milk protein allergy cannot be altered or changed through hypnosis or hypnotherapy - it requires strict medical and dietary management.
When body and mind start working together instead of against each other, digestion often follows - naturally and gently.
At CE-hypnosis we use a client-centred, integrative hypnotherapy approach (the CE-Method) that blends clinical hypnosis, imagery, habit-repatterning and self-empowerment. Book a session and we’ll map your food/digestion story, identify triggers and craft a path toward calmer digestion and restored confidence around eating.
(Sessions available online for clients in Australia, NZ and worldwide. On-site in Sweden, Nordic countries is possible.
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Read real reviews from people who have successfully done hypnosis.
Research and studies supporting hypnotherapy for IBS, Foodphobias and ARFID
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“Hypnosis and food intolerance” — This article discusses how hypnotherapy may help patients with food intolerance by engaging the mind–body connection and influencing immune responses. foodsmatter.com
Link: https://www.foodsmatter.com/natural-medicine-comp-therapies/hypnosis/articles/hypnosis_food_intol.html
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“Mechanisms underlying food-triggered symptoms in functional gastrointestinal disorders” — A review indicating that food sensitivities may involve visceral hypersensitivity, nutrient-sensing issues, and gut–brain signalling. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9169752/
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“Myths and facts about food intolerance: A narrative review” — A detailed look at food intolerance/sensitivity mechanisms, diagnostic challenges, and the psychological/behavioural dimension of sensitivities. MDPI
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/23/4969
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“Hypnosis and the allergic response” — A more general paper that shows hypnotherapy can reduce allergic skin-test reactions and modulate immune responses; while not food-sensitivity specific, it supports the broader mind–body-immune link. ResearchGate
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15126490_Hypnosis_and_the_allergic_response
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Gut-directed hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
A landmark randomised controlled trial showing that gut-focused hypnotherapy significantly improved symptoms and quality of life in IBS patients in primary care settings. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1828217/
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11181908/
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Long term benefits of hypnotherapy for IBS — sustained up to 5 yearsFindings: Improvements in symptom scores and quality of life persisted for at least 5 years post-GDH treatment. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1773844/
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Gut-focused hypnotherapy for functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs).
A contemporary review highlighting how hypnotherapy modulates gut–brain interactions, offers durable benefits and can help even severe refractory cases.
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6850508/
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Six vs 12 sessions of gut-focused hypnotherapy for IBS.
A randomized trial comparing different treatment doses in gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS demonstrating that abbreviated course may be non-inferior.
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8202328/
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Long-term benefits of hypnotherapy for IBS.
A study showing that improvements from hypnotherapy lasted at least five years in many IBS patients—including reductions in healthcare use and medication.
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1773844/
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Hypnotherapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Though less abundant, articles discuss how hypnotherapy may help ARFID by addressing food-associated fear or sensory-based avoidance. Hypnotherapy Directory+2Center Point Medicine+2
Link: https://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/articles/arfid-treatment-how-hypnotherapy-could-help-you-heal
Link: https://www.centerpointmedicine.com/blog/how-do-you-treat-restrictive-eating-with-hypnosis?
Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-hypnosis/202206/hypnosis-for-avoidantrestrictive-food-intake-disorder?
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Predictive factors for response to gut-directed hypnotherapy in IBS.
A study analysing which patient characteristics are associated with better outcomes in gut-directed hypnotherapy, showing ~76% of patients achieved significant improvement. PubMed
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37927144/
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Meta-analysis: Hypnosis for mental and somatic treatment outcomes.
This meta-analytical paper reviews hypnosis across physical and psychological conditions, showing moderate to large effects in somatic outcomes (including pain and gastrointestinal disorders). Frontiers
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1330238/full
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Efficacy of Hypnotherapy in Treatment of Eating Disorders.A broader review of hypnotherapy applied to eating disorders, which indicates that evidence is mixed and methodological limitations exist—but shows potential in changing behaviour around food. PubMedLink: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17558721/
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Gut-directed hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
A landmark randomised controlled trial showing that gut-focused hypnotherapy significantly improved symptoms and quality of life in IBS patients in primary care settings. PMC+1
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1828217/ -
Gut-focused hypnotherapy for functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs).
A contemporary review highlighting how hypnotherapy modulates gut–brain interactions, offers durable benefits and can help even severe refractory cases. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6850508/ -
Six vs 12 sessions of gut-focused hypnotherapy for IBS.
A randomized trial comparing different treatment doses in gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS demonstrating that abbreviated course may be non-inferior. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8202328/ -
Long-term benefits of hypnotherapy for IBS.
A study showing that improvements from hypnotherapy lasted at least five years in many IBS patients—including reductions in healthcare use and medication. PMC
Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1773844/ -
Hypnotherapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Though less abundant, articles discuss how hypnotherapy may help ARFID by addressing food-associated fear or sensory-based avoidance. Hypnotherapy Directory+2Center Point Medicine+2
Link: https://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/articles/arfid-treatment-how-hypnotherapy-could-help-you-heal -
Predictive factors for response to gut-directed hypnotherapy in IBS.
A study analysing which patient characteristics are associated with better outcomes in gut-directed hypnotherapy, showing ~76% of patients achieved significant improvement. PubMed
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37927144/ -
Meta-analysis: Hypnosis for mental and somatic treatment outcomes.
This meta-analytical paper reviews hypnosis across physical and psychological conditions, showing moderate to large effects in somatic outcomes (including pain and gastrointestinal disorders). Frontiers
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1330238/full