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IBS Hypnotherapy UK  CBT & Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for Lasting Relief

In-person in Market Harborough, online across the UK and worldwide

If your gut flares before leaving the house or during important moments, you’re not imagining it.
Even if tests come back normal, this is a gut–brain stress response - and it can be retrained.

Support for IBS symptoms including urgency, bloating, gut pain, and anxiety-related flare-ups. 

 Led by Kym Hall, Dip. CBH (NCFE, MNCH, UKCHH), Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist specialising in IBS, anxiety, and the gut–brain connection.

Book Your First Session – Start Calming Your Gut This Week
Teen Gut & Anxiety Support

When IBS Feels Unpredictable or Linked to Anxiety

Many people I work with notice their IBS symptoms are closely linked to stress, overthinking, or anticipation. 

You might recognise this pattern:

  • Symptoms flare before leaving the house
  • Your gut reacts before work, travel, or events
  • You feel fine one moment, then suddenly your gut reacts
  • You start planning your life around “what if”

These patterns are common in IBS, where the gut becomes highly responsive to stress. 

How I Can Help...

Using CBT and gut-directed hypnotherapy, we retrain the gut–brain stress response and reduce IBS symptoms over time.

IBS Hypnotherapy Program™

Tired of planning your life around your gut?

This evidence-based Gut–Mind program is designed to reduce flare-ups, calm urgency and bloating, and retrain stress-sensitive digestion - and you’ve been told everything looks fine and you feel like you’ve “tried everything.”

For adults with IBS, gut anxiety, and unpredictable symptoms.

Even if your main concern is anxiety, many people find it shows up physically, especially in the gut.

See IBS Program Details
Teen Gut & Anxiety Support 

When anxiety starts affecting your teen’s confidence, thoughts, or daily life, it can quickly build into pressure they don’t know how to handle.

You might notice overthinking, school stress, avoidance, or anxiety showing up in their stomach.

This work helps teens feel calmer, more in control, and better able to handle pressure.

For ages 13+ experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, or stress-driven digestive symptoms.

See Teen Support Options
Child Anxiety & Emotional Support

When anxiety shows up in your child’s behaviour, body, or emotions, it can be confusing and overwhelming.

You might notice meltdowns, clinginess, school avoidance, or stomach aches.

This work helps your child feel safer, calmer, and better able to handle everyday situations.

For children aged 8+ experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, or stress-related physical symptoms.

See Child Support Options
Anxiety & Overthinking 

When your mind doesn’t switch off, keeps second-guessing, or runs through the same thoughts over and over, it can feel exhausting and hard to escape.

You might notice constant overthinking, difficulty making decisions, physical tension, or feeling on edge even when nothing is wrong.

This work helps you step out of those loops, feel calmer in your body, and think more clearly day to day.

See Anxiety Page

Current Struggle You Might Be Facing

  • Your gut reacts before you can stop it

  • Symptoms flare the moment pressure rises

  • You scan your body for signs something is wrong

  • Mornings feel unsafe before work or school

  • You avoid food, places, or plans just in case

  • Tests come back “normal” - but nothing feels normal

  • Anxiety spills into sleep and daily life

This isn’t in your head.
Your gut and nervous system are reacting automatically to stress.

Why You Might Still Be Stuck

  • Diets and fixes quiet symptoms only temporarily

  • Anxiety tools help in the moment, not the cycle

  • Standard approaches treat mind or body, not the connection

  • Your gut learned to react fast and never fully stood down

That’s why symptoms keep returning
Not because you’re failing, but because the gut–brain stress response hasn’t fully settled.

How This Therapy Helps You

  • Calm an overactive gut–brain stress response

  • Reduce digestive sensitivity and flare intensity

  • Stop urgency and anxiety from running your day

  • Rebuild confidence, control, and trust in your body

  • Feel steady and safe in your body again

Without avoiding food, places, or living in fear of flare-ups.

Why CBT & Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Help IBS

When Other Things Haven’t

IBS and stress-related gut symptoms aren’t random.
They’re driven by a learned gut–brain stress response.

  • Diets reduce triggers, but don’t retrain the stress response

  • Medication can ease symptoms, but the gut still reacts under pressure

  • General anxiety tools calm the mind - not always the gut

This work retrains the gut–brain connection directly.

As the nervous system settles, digestive reactivity reduces.

The goal isn’t coping better.
It’s helping your gut feel calm again.

What to Expect in Sessions

Sessions are structured, practical, and evidence-based, using:

  • CBT

  • Specialist gut-directed hypnotherapy

  • Brief 5-Minute Magnet™ tools between sessions

You will:

  • Map your specific IBS pattern

  • Work with anticipation, avoidance, and stress triggers

  • Retrain the stress–gut response

  • Build regulation skills to stabilise symptoms over time

Delivered online or in person.
Suitable for adults and children 8+.

IBS, Anxiety & the Gut–Brain Connection: FAQs 

If you’re ready to reduce IBS flare-ups and anxiety-driven gut symptoms, the next step is a structured consultation where we map your specific pattern and begin retraining the gut–brain response.
Book Your Initial IBS Consultation

My Qualifications & Experience.

Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - DipCBH (Level 5)

The U.K College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy- NCFE Accredited

Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for IBS Practitioner

Specialist Practitioner Training in IBS & Digestive Disorders - Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy, CBT 

Certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner – ICBCH

International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapists (USA) Membership

Certificate in Psychogastroenterology

Rome Foundation GastroPsych (APA-Approved)

Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) for Anxiety & Behavioural Change

Integrated CBT approach

Ongoing Specialisation Training

Gut–Brain science, neuropsychology of stress, teens & performance-related anxiety

Why I Specialise in Gut-Mind Therapy

I specialise in helping adults and children with IBS and stress-sensitive digestion, where symptoms continue to disrupt daily life.

My work focuses on the gut-brain connection, the two-way communication system between your nervous system and your digestive tract. When this system becomes over-alert, digestion shifts into protection mode, leading to symptoms such as urgency, pain, bloating, nausea, or unpredictable bowel habits.

I combine evidence-based gut-directed hypnotherapy, CBT, and nervous system regulation to help calm digestive sensitivity at its source, rather than simply managing symptoms.

My interest in this work comes from both clinical training and lived understanding. I know how stress can register in the body long before it’s fully recognised in the mind - and how powerfully the gut responds when the system feels under pressure.

Alongside structured therapy, I use brief, focused regulation techniques to help clients settle flare-ups between sessions, build confidence in their body’s signals, and create steadier, more predictable digestion over time.

My approach is structured, compassionate, and practical - designed to support real life. Whether that’s getting through the workday without constant monitoring, leaving the house without fear of urgency, or feeling more at ease in your body again.

Professional Background

My own experience with gut–mind challenges drove me to specialise in evidence-based methods that create real, lasting change. I integrate cognitive science, nervous system regulation, and practical tools from gut–brain research to help both teens and adults feel safe and in control again.

I am an accredited Clinical Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist (Level 5, NCFE) with additional specialist training in Paediatric Hypnotherapy (Dip Hyp Paediatrics) and Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for IBS and functional gut disorders.

My approach combines CBT, clinical hypnotherapy, and mind–body physiology with the latest understanding of the gut–brain axis.
My practice is structured, compassionate, and practical — helping clients reduce symptoms, build confidence, and regain quality of life in the moments that matter most: school days, work, sport, and everyday routines.

Professional Membership

  • MNCH — Professional Member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy

  •  MNICP — Member, National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (UK)

  •  MFHT — Member, Federation of Holistic Therapists (UK)

  •  ICBCH — Certified Member, International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapists (USA)

  •  NCFE — Accredited Qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Based in Market Harborough, I offer in-person CBT hypnotherapy sessions and work with clients across the UK and worldwide online.

COMING SOON

Not Sure Where to Start?

Discover Your Gut-Mind Pattern

Your mind is brilliant - but when it’s overloaded, your body often speaks up first.

It might show up as tension in your stomach, sudden tightness in your chest, or waves of fatigue that seem to come from nowhere. These aren’t random. They’re your body’s way of communicating stress, safety, and overload.

This short Gut–Mind Pattern Finder helps you understand how your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, and digestion interact - and where your system tends to start under pressure.

Rather than giving you a label or score, it highlights patterns in how your body responds, so you can begin working with it instead of fighting symptoms.

Once you understand your gut-mind pattern, you can start retraining that connection - calming your body, clearing mental noise, and restoring balance from the inside out.

🌿 Ready to understand what your body is asking for?
Explore the Gut-Mind Pattern Finder for a clear, insight-based overview grounded in CBT-informed hypnotherapy and neuroscience-informed wellbeing.

COMING SOON →

What My Clients Have to Say;

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Kym helped me sort out the problems with my stomach and the anxiety I used to feel every day. I don’t get those issues before school anymore, and now I only need to get up 30 minutes before I leave instead of two hours.

JH - Teen Gut Issues & Anxiety

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Before working with Kym, I was constantly overthinking and my gut symptoms were always flaring. I feel calmer, clearer, and far more confident now. My stomach feels much more settled, and I finally understand how to manage my symptoms instead of worrying about them. I would highly recommend this programme.

BS - Anxiety, Gut Issues & Overwhelm

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I loved the reset tools and the short audios. They gave me relief from my pain & anxiety in minutes and practical ways to calm myself anytime I need it. 

LG - Pain & Anxiety