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Shift your Mindset - Transform Your Body
No one wants to struggle with excess weight, yet diets and exercise programs alone often fail to deliver lasting results. Many Australians lose weight only to regain it. That’s because weight challenges usually aren’t just about food — they’re about the mind.
Shifting your focus towards long-term results and building healthy habits is essential for sustainable weight loss.
At Reconnect Hypnotherapy, Leonie specialises in hypnotherapy for weight loss that addresses the unconscious mind and the patterns driving overeating, emotional eating, cravings, and lack of motivation. By changing the relationship with food at the subconscious level, healthier choices may become natural, easier, and sustainable.
Why Weight Loss Is About More Than Diet and Exercise
Being overweight may be a symptom of deeper issues such as stress, trauma, emotional pain, or lack of motivation. These factors show up as:
- Emotional or comfort eating
- Late-night snacking
- Cravings for sugar or junk food
- Using food to cope with stress or boredom
- Lack of energy or willpower to exercise
- Holding onto weight as a protective mechanism after past trauma
Weight loss is a mind game. Get your mind in the right space, and the rest will fall into place.
“It’s never really about the food—it’s about the relationship with food. Once that’s changed at a subconscious level, people no longer need willpower to avoid sugar; they simply don’t feel like it anymore.”
What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a powerful approach for individuals seeking to lose weight and achieve lasting weight loss. At its core, hypnotherapy involves guiding you into a state of complete relaxation—sometimes referred to as a hypnotic state—where your subconscious mind becomes more receptive to positive suggestions. In this state of deep relaxation and focused attention, it’s possible to gently reprogram the patterns and beliefs that drive eating habits, cravings, and even weight gain.
During a hypnotherapy session, Leonie will help you access this relaxed state, using hypnotic suggestions to encourage healthier choices and a balanced diet. This process can help you let go of old habits, reduce emotional eating, and build motivation for regular exercise and healthy eating.
Leonie explains:
“Traditional talk therapies focus on the conscious mind. Hypnotherapy communicates with the subconscious—where the patterns and triggers sit—so the nervous system may settle, and change may happen faster and more deeply.”
How Hypnotherapy Helps with Weight Loss
Beyond Diet and Exercise
- Emotional eating – addressing the need for food as comfort
- Cravings – dissolving automatic urges for sugar, soft drinks, or fast food
- Stress and trauma – reducing the nervous system’s urge to hold onto weight
- Mindset and motivation – making exercise and portion control feel achievable
- Hypnotherapy can also support individuals struggling with eating disorders, such as binge eating or compulsive eating, by helping to manage behaviours and regulate food intake.
“With weight loss, we help people overcome emotional eating, stress eating, and cravings for things like chocolate or soft drinks.”
Hypnotherapy Techniques Used for Weight Loss
At Reconnect Hypnotherapy, Leonie draws from a wide range of proven techniques to ensure the best results. A typical hypnosis session involves guiding the client into a state of relaxation and focused attention, using techniques such as breathing exercises, muscle relaxation, and verbal suggestions, while ensuring the client remains in control throughout the process. These include:
- Timeline Therapy – releasing negative beliefs linked to weight struggles
- NLP Processes – reprogramming subconscious associations with food
- Regression Therapy – uncovering and resolving root causes of unhealthy habits
- Addiction Protocols – breaking cycles of binge eating or compulsive snacking
- Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis – reducing appetite and portion sizes by simulating the effects of surgery
- EMDR-inspired techniques – addressing trauma that may be linked to emotional eating
This combination creates a gold-standard approach tailored to the individual.
Custom Programs for Weight Loss Hypnotherapy
Food and Exercise Mindset Reset
Helps you shift your mindset around food and exercise so that healthy living is natural and sustainable. This program uses hypnotherapy and meditation techniques to help you become a healthy eater by rewiring your mindset, eliminating cravings for junk food, and cultivating a preference for nutritious foods.
Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis
A non-surgical process that trains the mind to feel full faster, naturally reducing appetite and portion sizes. Practising the new habits and techniques learned in these programs is essential to reinforce lasting change and embed positive behaviours for long-term success.
“Our weight loss programs include approaches such as the Virtual Gastric Band, which reduces appetite so clients feel full faster and naturally eat less.” — Leonie.
What Results Can You Expect?
Most clients notice a change in their feelings about food immediately. Cravings may dissolve, portion sizes naturally shrink, and motivation for healthy choices grows stronger.
- Immediate results: Many people experience a reduced desire for problem foods after the first session.
- Medium-term: Losing weight begins as healthier eating patterns become automatic through hypnotherapy.
- Long-term: Clients often maintain their weight loss for years, with some losing more weight when hypnotherapy is combined with other healthy habits, and achieving results that last 8 years or more.
“With weight loss, we help people overcome emotional eating, stress eating, and cravings for things like chocolate or soft drinks.”
Case Studies: Real Results from Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss
Marlene had battled with weight challenges for many years, struggles that intensified with the onset of menopause. When she first came to me, she weighed 112.1 kg and set herself a heartfelt goal: to reach 75 kilograms in time for her son’s wedding, just eight months away. She dreamed of feeling confident and radiant in a beautiful dress on his special day.
Marlene not only achieved her goal but also gained something even more precious, the energy and vitality to joyfully play with her granddaughter, who was just turning one. Her journey was not only about weight loss, but also about reclaiming her health, confidence, and the freedom to enjoy life’s most meaningful moments fully.
“I often hear from clients years later telling me they’ve kept the weight off and feel fabulous.”
How Many Sessions Are Needed?
- Weight loss mindset changes: Often immediate
- Physical results: Gradual and sustainable over weeks and months
- Typical plan: 3–6 sessions, with follow-ups as needed
“Mindset changes may begin straight away—less desire for problem foods and smaller portions. The kilograms reduce over time as the new patterns stick. Clients commonly report sustained results in the months and years after.”
The Hypnotherapy Process: What to Expect
- Initial Consultation – A conversation about your goals and habits.
- Education – Explaining how hypnotherapy works and clearing away myths.
- Hypnosis – You sit comfortably, close your eyes, and are guided into a relaxed state.
- Therapeutic Work – Suggestions, regression, or techniques tailored to your needs.
- Integration – You leave feeling refreshed, calm, and ready to apply the changes.
“Hypnotherapy isn’t something that’s done to you—it’s a process you’re guided through. Clients sit in a comfortable recliner, close their eyes, and are guided into a relaxed state where the subconscious mind can be accessed.” — Leonie.
What Makes Reconnect Hypnotherapy Different?
- 50+ years of healthcare background – With over 50 years of healthcare experience, Leonie brings decades of expertise in caring professions, ranging from nursing to midwifery, complemented by extensive years in hypnotherapy.
- Gold-standard approach – Blending modern methods (NLP, EMDR, TRTP) with traditional hypnotherapy.
- Personalised care – No two clients receive the same session; every process is tailored to meet individual needs.
- Proven results – Long-term success stories in weight loss, smoking cessation, trauma, and anxiety.
- Compassion and professionalism – A genuine philosophy of care backed by clinical expertise.
Psychotherapy for Weight Loss: An Integrated Approach
In-Person and Online Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Sessions
Frequently Asked Questions
How does hypnotherapy for weight loss work?
By changing subconscious associations with food, reducing cravings, and increasing motivation for healthy habits. Scientific data and research support the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for weight loss, underscoring its role in promoting behavioural change.
How many sessions are required?
Is hypnotherapy safe?
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It’s time to stop dieting and start changing your relationship with food for good.
With hypnotherapy, you can build healthy habits that support your weight loss goals now and into the future.