HYPNOTHERAPY FOR IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)

New Irritable Bowel Syndrome Testimonial!

IBS is a frustrating and often debilitating chronic illness characterized by diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, bloating and spasms. Conventional medical treatment includes a variety of medications, a high fiber diet, fiber supplements and behavioral changes. The behavioral changes include exercise, stress reduction and dietary changes. Unfortunately, this regime has not been proven adequately effective for a high percentage of sufferers. In addition, many people find the side effects of the medications to be more noxious than the IBS Symptoms. Either reason results in poor compliance.

However, hypnotherapy has been proven highly effective in alleviating IBS symptoms. Over 15 years of solid scientific research has demonstrated hypnotherapy as an effective, safe and inexpensive choice for IBS symptom alleviation. Hypnotherapy routinely produces positive results in over 80% of the people who use it. It has been so overwhelmingly successful for IBS symptom alleviation that Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, chair of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, DC, says that hypnosis should be the treatment of choice for IBS cases which have not responded to conventional therapy.

I am a Certified IBS Hypnotherapist, having received my certification through Melissa Roth, C.Ht., Ph.D. of the Alabama Hypnotherapy Center. Melissa’s successful hypnotherapy program with IBS Clients has resulted in a reduction of symptoms for 93.7% of her clients and 86% have become symptom free within the course of therapy. Melissa Roth, the developer of the program, has remained symptom free since 1996 from severe, debilitating IBS symptoms.

I work with clients on a one-on-one basis in my office. As with other hypnotherapy sessions, clients are provided with an audio tape. An IBS client typically requires 6 to 10 hypnotherapy treatments, spaced two weeks apart. This is a program done in conjunction with your personal physician and is not intended as a replacement for traditional medical treatment.

Conventional medical treatment has been inadequate in alleviating IBS symptoms for most people. However, hypnotherapy combined with traditional medical treatment can provide dramatic relief for most sufferers.

New York Times Article
Let the Mind Help Tame an Irritable Bowel

"...They also noted that hypnotherapy helped “even those whose conditions were refractory to other forms of therapy.” They pointed out that while there may be no cure for I.B.S., symptom relief is possible for most, if not all, patients."