Hypnotherapy for Weight Management
Improve Your Relationship with Food and Feel Back in Control
Change your relationship with food, reduce emotional eating, and build healthier patterns without restriction, guilt, or punishment, through evidence-based, solution focused hypnotherapy
How Hypnotherapy Helps with Weight Management
Solution focused hypnotherapy does not prescribe diets or meal plans. Instead, it supports the mental and emotional patterns that influence eating behaviour.
Hypnotherapy can help to:
Reduce emotional and stress-related eating
Improve awareness of hunger and fullness
Break habits around mindless eating
Reduce guilt and shame around food
Improve self-control without restriction
Build confidence and motivation
Support consistency and balance
Many people find that when their stress levels reduce, their eating naturally becomes more balanced.
Why choose Brighter Future to help with weight management?
A Gentle, Non-Judgemental Approach
Weight and food can be deeply personal and emotional topics. Sessions are delivered in a supportive, respectful, and non-judgemental environment.
There is:
No weigh-ins
No food shaming
No pressure to disclose more than you’re comfortable with
The aim is to support long-term wellbeing, not quick fixes.
Who Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Can Help
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help clients who experience intrusive thoughts, persistent mental loops, unwanted images or urges, overthinking, and stress-related sleep difficulties.
It is an effective alternative to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for managing intrusive thoughts and associated anxiety.
There is less focus on discussing distressing content and no requirement to analyse the past. Instead, the focus is on calming the nervous system, reducing mental overload, and building a greater sense of control through structured, time-limited sessions.
How It Works
Over our sessions, we’ll work together to help you:
Understand how the brain creates and maintains overthinking patterns
Learn tools to calm and reframe intrusive thoughts
Develop a more positive, solution-focused mindset
Reinforce calm and confidence through relaxing hypnosis
Each session is structured as follows:
A discussion of “what’s been good?” to focus your brain on the positives and put you into your intellectual brain. These do not need to be big things - perhaps the sun is shining, the traffic was light on your journey or someone complimented you at work…
Brain revision to remind you of the neuroscience behind our work and the importance of having good sleep, doing things that you enjoy, interacting with people who make you feel good and having positive thoughts
A simple scaling exercise to determine how you are feeling this week and what would move you slightly up the happiness scale
A visualisation exercise to expand on what your preferred future would look like, how you will feel when you get there and what small step you can take to move in that direction
A guided sleep relaxation to cement your preferred future into your subconscious
Many clients notice a real difference after just a few sessions.
Meet Laura
My name is Laura Bartlett and I am a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, with a strong academic and professional background in psychology and evidence-based therapy. I hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London, alongside a Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy and a Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma.
I am a registered member of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH), fully insured, and hold an enhanced DBS certificate — so you can be confident you are working with a qualified, professional, and ethical practitioner.
Before retraining as a therapist, I spent 20 years working in the London corporate world as an insurance broker. With an Advanced Diploma in Insurance (ACII) and a Level 3 Diploma in Management and Leadership, my approach is practical, grounded, and evidence-informed.
You’re In Safe Hands
Membership Number: 2625
The Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists (AfSFH) maintains the only dedicated register for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists. All members are fully qualified, insured, and required to follow a strict Code of Conduct and professional standards. AfSFH also sets and monitors best-practice standards, with members completing at least 21 hours of ongoing professional development each year, including regular supervision and further training.
Membership Number: 12094
The National Council for Hypnotherapy holds one of the largest registers of independent Hypnotherapists in the United Kingdom and strives to maintain the highest standards among its members.
There is an agreed Code of Conduct, an established Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure and all members are obliged to maintain comprehensive Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurance, maintain regular CPD (continuing professional development) hours, and attend Supervision when needed.
CASE STUDY: “I Can’t Believe I No Longer Crave Sweets”
(Details changed for confidentiality reasons)
Steve came to see me wanting to achieve an alteration in his eating habits. He was overweight, didn’t like how he looked and worst of all just felt “heavy” and unhealthy all of the time.
He had tried many diets over the years without long-term effect. He always felt like he was being deprived of pleasure and any loss of weight was short-term.
Steve found it difficult at first not to focus on his weight and eating habits. He was used to counting calories and being encouraged to take more exercise.
Instead, we focused on reducing stress and supporting his nervous system.
When stress levels are high, the brain remains stuck in survival mode, which intensifies cravings and makes it harder to stick to good habits.
Using deep relaxation and solution focused techniques, Steve’s nervous system began to settle. As his stress levels reduced Steve found that he wasn’t even craving sweet things anymore. In fact when a client gifted Steve a box of his favourite jelly beans they remained in his desk drawer until he eventually gave them to his colleagues.
“I just didn’t even want them anymore”
Client Testimonials
“Laura is so supportive, not judgemental, everything you should expect in therapy. Laura is also very down to earth, straight talking, and just so good to be around and be helped by. Highly recommended. My problem was alcohol and caffeine drink cycle. For about 6 weeks (just 2 weeks into sessions) and I don't even 'want' it. Which is how I wanted to feel. And Laura fixed it for me :)” — TB, Female, 58
“Through working with Laura I achieved resolution to my unhealthy eating habits. Believe in the process, understand the process and commit. For me, the results followed ...” — CB, Male, 65
Next Steps…
Ready to quiet your mind and find calm again?
Book an initial consultation or learn how solution focused hypnotherapy can help you overcome obsessive and negative thought patterns.
I service the local areas of Hadleigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Benfleet, Chalkwell, Southend-on-Sea, Canvey Island, Dunton, Laindon, Basildon, Horndon on the Hill, Corringham, Stanford-le-Hope, Pitsea, Thundersley, Hockley, Hawkwell, Rochford, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wickford and Rayleigh. Or anywhere in the World via Zoom.
An initial consultation is £35 and takes up to 45 minutes. It can take place online via Zoom or in-person in my relaxing therapy room at 96 Westwood Gardens, Hadleigh, Essex, SS7 2SJ.
During the initial consultation I will take some basic information from you - including what you are looking to achieve from sessions. I will then explain how the brain works including why it is negatively biased and what causes our intrusive thoughts. We will discuss the format of further sessions and you will leave with a sleep audio to listen to at home.
Frequently Asked Questions About Hypnotherapy and Weight Management
Can hypnotherapy help emotional eating?
Yes. Solution focused hypnotherapy can be very effective in helping with emotional and stress-related eating.
Emotional eating is often the brain’s way of coping with stress, fatigue, anxiety, or overwhelm. Hypnotherapy helps by calming the stress response, increasing awareness of emotional triggers, and breaking automatic eating patterns.
Rather than relying on willpower, this approach supports the brain in developing healthier coping strategies, making it easier to respond to emotions without turning to food.
Will hypnotherapy make me lose weight?
Hypnotherapy does not guarantee weight loss and is not a quick fix.
Instead, solution focused hypnotherapy supports the behaviours, habits, and mindset that influence weight, such as emotional eating, stress, self-sabotage, and low motivation. Many people find that when these patterns change, weight loss can happen naturally and more sustainably.
The focus is on long-term wellbeing and consistency, not chasing a number on the scales.
Is this about dieting?
No. Solution focused hypnotherapy is not about dieting, restriction, or rigid food rules.
There are no meal plans, calorie counting, or “good” and “bad” foods. The emphasis is on improving your relationship with food, learning to listen to hunger and fullness cues, and reducing guilt or anxiety around eating.
This approach aims to support balanced, sustainable choices rather than short-term dieting cycles.
Is this the same as a virtual gastric band?
No. Solution focused hypnotherapy for weight management is not a virtual gastric band.
A virtual gastric band approach uses hypnosis to suggest physical restriction, mimicking surgical weight-loss procedures. Solution focused hypnotherapy takes a very different approach. It does not attempt to create a sense of physical limitation or control eating through suggestion alone.
Instead, the focus is on changing the mental and emotional patterns that influence eating behaviour—such as stress, habits, emotional triggers, and self-belief. The aim is to support sustainable, long-term change by helping the brain regulate stress more effectively and develop healthier coping strategies.
This approach prioritises wellbeing, flexibility, and a healthier relationship with food, rather than restriction or rapid weight loss.