Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Auckland

Create Healthier Habits and Lose Weight Naturally

Many people struggle with weight not because they lack knowledge about diet or exercise, but because eating habits are strongly influenced by the unconscious mind.

At Auckland Hypnotherapy Clinic in Takapuna, hypnotherapist Ian Blaine helps clients across Auckland develop healthier relationships with food, reduce emotional eating, and create lasting lifestyle changes through hypnotherapy.

Rather than relying on willpower alone, hypnotherapy works with the deeper patterns of the mind that influence cravings, habits, and motivation.

Why Losing Weight Can Be Difficult

Many people know what they should do to lose weight, yet find themselves repeating the same patterns around food.

Common challenges include:

• Emotional eating during stress or boredom

• Strong cravings for certain foods

• Eating out of habit rather than hunger

• Difficulty maintaining motivation

• Repeated cycles of dieting and weight regain

These behaviours often develop over time and become automatic responses. Hypnotherapy helps change these deeper patterns so healthier choices begin to feel more natural.

How Hypnotherapy Supports Weight Loss

Hypnotherapy helps you enter a calm and focused state where the mind becomes more open to positive change.

In this relaxed state we can work with the unconscious mind to help:

• reduce cravings and emotional eating

• increase motivation for healthy habits

• strengthen self-control around food

• build a more positive body mindset

• support long-term lifestyle changes

Many clients find that as their mindset shifts, making healthier choices becomes easier and more consistent.

Virtual Gastric Band Hypnotherapy

Some clients choose to explore Virtual Gastric Band hypnotherapy, a technique that uses hypnosis to simulate the psychological effects of gastric band surgery without any medical procedure.

Through a series of guided hypnosis sessions, the mind begins to respond as if the stomach capacity has been reduced. This can help people feel satisfied with smaller portions and develop healthier eating behaviours.

This approach focuses on retraining the mind’s relationship with food rather than relying on restrictive dieting.

What Happens in a Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Session?

Sessions at the Auckland Hypnotherapy Clinic are supportive, practical and tailored to your goals.

1. Understanding your eating patterns

We explore the habits, triggers and beliefs that influence your relationship with food.

2. Guided hypnosis

You are guided into a relaxed state where the mind becomes more receptive to positive suggestions.

3. Reprogramming habits

Through hypnosis we help reinforce healthier responses to food, appetite and lifestyle choices.

Each session builds on the previous one to support lasting behavioural change.

Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Clients often report benefits such as:

• reduced emotional eating

• improved motivation for exercise

• feeling satisfied with smaller portions

• fewer cravings for unhealthy foods

• greater confidence and self-control

These changes can support gradual, sustainable weight loss and improved wellbeing.

Why Work With Ian Blaine

With over 20 years of experience in clinical hypnotherapy, Ian Blaine works with a range of therapeutic approaches including hypnosis, NLP and cognitive behavioural techniques.

This integrated approach helps address both the mental and behavioural aspects of weight management, supporting meaningful and lasting change.

Are you fed up with diets?

Do you want to change the relationship you have with food?

Cognitive behavioral hypnotherapy adds to traditional cognitive behavioral therapy as it assumes that most psychological disturbances are caused by a form of spontaneous negative self-hypnosis in which negative thoughts, self-talk and imagery are accepted uncritically and implicitly without conscious awareness.
Examples of negative self-talk –
I will always be fat.
I am not attractive anyway.
I have no self-control.
It’s my partners fault for buying me chocolate and cake.
I will never be happy until I lose weight.
I will start tomorrow.

Internal shifts will flow into your external reality

Then there is the subconscious programming that your parents put in –
You can only have dessert if you eat all your dinner.
Be good and I will buy you some lollies.
Eat all your food, there are starving children in Africa.
How much of your eating is because of hunger? And how much is craving, emotional eating, rewarding yourself.
With cognitive behavioral hypnotherapy we can bring these programs into conscious awareness and re-program your subconscious with more beneficial updated habits and beliefs about your relationship with food.

I will work with your sub-conscious mind where your beliefs and habits are housed (which affect your behaviours) to help you make the necessary changes to reach your goal to be happy, healthy, slim and manage your weight.

Session are 90 minutes for $150

3 sessions recommended

To find out more about the Weight Management Programme that will help you to Lose Weight with Hypnotherapy contact me now!

Testimonial

“I had 4 sessions with Ian in Feb, 2023 to help me with my sugar cravings which were strong at night and I felt I couldn’t control my eating which was very stressful. I immediately felt confident that Ian could help me as he seemed very non-judgemental and put me at ease. I found the hypnosis sessions very relaxing and so far I’ve lost 14 kilos, but most importantly to me, I feel in control of my night-time eating using the self-hypnosis he taught me and some behavioural therapy techniques. Thankyou so much for your help.”

Karen K, Devonport

“I feel like I’ve made a lifestyle change rather than dieting, after seeing Ian for weight loss. He used hypnotherapy and behavioural therapy to help me stay focussed and the suggestive hypnosis changed my perception around certain foods so I am now attracted and enjoy fruit which I didn’t before and other healthy food seems to be in the forefront of my mind, where the junk food was before. It’s amazing ! I’m so glad I took the leap to try hypnotherapy for the first time and I wouldn’t hesitate in using again in the future.”

Eve W, Henderson