OCD Hypnotherapy in Sydney: Expert Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Looking for effective hypnotherapy for OCD in Sydney?

Clinical Hypnotherapist Samantha Jones specializes in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder treatment with hypnotherapy.

With more than 25 years of experience in helping Sydney residents with OCD symptoms, she can help you manage, control and relieve your contamination fears, checking obsessions, intrusive thoughts and compulsive rituals that disturb your daily routine.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) involving cleaning

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

We are often asked by clients if our Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) hypnotherapy works, and whether it is possible to treat OCD with the subconscious mind via hypnosis.

The short answer is YES!

At North Shore & City Hypnotherapy Sydney, you’re in the hands of a trained, qualified and experienced professional Clinical Hypnotherapist, Samantha Jones, who has a unique way of unlocking and resolving the issues that underpin it, and it does work wonders.

It is important to know, however, that it can take a series of Sessions to really feel the full effect.

Common Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD is an anxiety disorder where sufferers have intrusive thoughts and/or obsessions (but not always), often (but not always) leading to a compulsive action to reduce feelings of anxiety, only to have them resurface again for the cycle to continue repetitively for a period of time.

Obsessions are recurring thoughts that are persistent.

A person’s obsessive thoughts or intrusive thoughts may be worries, fears or anxieties about themselves, family members or other people.

The thoughts may be centred around religious beliefs, fears about death and mortality, diseases, harming self or someone else, and/or be sexual in nature to give some examples.

Many people recognize the difference between reality and these obsessions but still feel compelled to do something to ease the anxiety and in the belief they will stop.

Compulsions are the behaviours that people feel compelled to perform to ease the obsessions, or to feel ‘right’, ‘perfect’ or ‘balanced’ in some way.

A proportion of those with OCD will have a belief that if they don’t act out the ritual or compulsion that something bad will happen to them or someone else.

The panic and sense of dread drives them to continue the compulsion, even if they know on another level that this isn’t rational behaviour, or healthy for them to continue to do so.

Like an addiction, the internal dialog can ‘trick’ the mind into performing the rituals just ‘one more time’ for relief and a promise to resist next time to no avail.

A large component of OCD is fear.

Common fears include fear of: 

  • Being contaminated by germs or contaminating others with germs (very common, for example washing your hands);
  • Losing control and harming self or others;
  • Acting on intrusive sexual inappropriate thoughts;
  • Losing something or not having what you need at your disposal;
  • Forgetting to turn off appliances with devastating effects;
  • Having hit someone in a car and not realizing it;
  • Forgetting to lock doors and being broken in to; and
  • Not stepping the correct amount of footsteps required to avoid pain or death of family, etc. (superstition)
Client on roadtrip after having hypnotherapy for ocd in Sydney clinic, feeling free from obsessions

The good news is that we can help you!

North Shore & City Hypnotherapy Sydney can help ease OCD with our proprietary Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™, regardless of whether your OCD is based around checking, cleaning, washing, counting, arranging, hand washing, doubting, hair pulling (trichotillomania), hoarding, sexual/violent/other intrusive thoughts, superstitions/rituals or something else.

Our Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™ really is the OCD treatment of choice!

Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones has more than 25 years’ experience in helping clients just like you.

Optimal Evolution™: Hypnotherapy for OCD Tailored to YOU

Every client is different and every Session will be unique, depending on the goal, therapies and techniques used within our Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™.

No two cases of OCD are the same.

Even if the symptoms appear identical, what is driving the behaviours and feelings is going to be entirely different because your life experience is unique.

Samantha will help you achieve change gently and comfortably with Optimal Evolution™, by customizing therapies and techniques best suited to you.

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Sydney chef after OCD hypnosis smiling with messy face

So how do we resolve your issue?

Easily and effectively!

Through hypnotherapeutic counselling, we take a comprehensive history and identify key areas that need to be resolved in hypnosis for you to be OCD symptom-free.

These encompass old beliefs that no longer serve you, as well as thought patterns, feelings and self-talk.

We take you into hypnosis and use various therapies and techniques to:

  • Unlock and resolve obsessions, compulsions, anxieties, fears, and behaviours;
  • Build/reinforce coping strategies, self-esteem, positivity, and optimism; and
  • Seal the deal with a zen-like calm.

In addition, we focus on healing the mind-body connection, optimizing the functioning of all body systems, so that the body and mind establish healthier ways of being, naturally.

ASK YOURSELF:

  • What are your OCD symptoms costing you?
  • Is your OCD mild or does it interfere with living life on a daily basis?
  • Do you have any obsessions that seem uncontrollable, involuntary, disturbing and/or distracting?
  • Does your obsession lead you to act in compulsive ways to ease the anxiety you feel, or so that things feel ‘right’?
  • Do you have compulsions without obsessions?
  • Is your obsessive compulsive disorder taking over your life?
  • Have conventional treatments failed, and you feel like you are running out of options?
  • Are you looking for something that can change your mindset on a deeper level so that you have no desire to engage in those old obsessions, compulsions and behaviours?
  • Or are you looking for something that can complement medication or perhaps even replace it (with your doctors guidance of course)?
  • Are you really ready for and wanting change and up for the challenge?

Does the benefit of investing in several Sessions with us to be free of your OCD outweigh the ongoing costs of being trapped by your OCD?

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Testimonials on Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy for OCD

  • “Samantha is a master at what she does.
    She immediately puts you at ease and the hypnosis itself is both relaxing and incredibly effective.
    I have visited her on separate occasions for two very different issues.
    Each time she has vastly improved my reaction to the problem with long lasting results.
    I’m a big fan!”
    S. H. (Chatswood, Sydney)
  • “After the one session, I was very surprised with the results.

    I’ve now had the second session and with the third to come, I am looking forward to the changes to be cemented in my habits.

    Great outcome and very satisfied.”
    T. B. (Dural, Sydney)
  • “I felt a shift immediately after my first session!

    The day after I acted on that shift and am so happy that my mindset had changed.

    I can’t recommend Samantha enough -am looking forward to my next session and the changes that will follow.”
    V. W. (Narrabeen, Sydney)
  • “Good suggestions today I think. Topics well chosen I believe which is good.

    Conversation good and lots of practical logical points relevant to my current circumstances.

    Overall very good and happy with today’s session.

    Thank you”
    M. B. (Neutral Bay, Sydney)
  • “Thank you Samantha!

    It was enlightening, lifting and refreshing!”
    S. C. (Burwood, Sydney)

* Individual results may vary.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Studies on hypnosis / hypnotherapy for OCD are as follows.

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A Multicomponent Cognitive-Behavioral Hypnotic Approach for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment: A Case Study (2024)

[Abstract]
This article proposes a multicomponent hypnotherapeutic approach for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. This new approach combines hypnosis with exposure and response prevention, cognitive reappraisal, principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, and other components. In the presented case study, the patient was treated for four months with both biological and psychological first-line therapy with minor effects; the patient was then treated with hypnotherapy.

The patient listened to a recorded hypnosis session, which was constructed according to the new proposed principle. After three weeks of near-daily listening to the session, the patient’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale score decreased by 38.5%, which helped achieve a 51.5% reduction from the initial score, suggesting that this method might have significantly contributed to the therapeutic outcome. In addition, this article discusses the differences between the proposed approach and previously published hypnotherapeutic methods for OCD treatment and the hypothetical use of such an approach for other disorders characterized by compulsive behavior. Further randomized controlled studies are needed to confirm the efficacy of hypnotic approaches for treating OCD.

Hypnotically induced dissociation (HID) as a strategic intervention for enhancing OCD treatment (2011)

[Abstract]
This article proposes a multicomponent hypnotherapeutic approach for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. This new approach combines hypnosis with exposure and response prevention, cognitive reappraisal, principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, and other components. In the presented case study, the patient was treated for four months with both biological and psychological first-line therapy with minor effects; the patient was then treated with hypnotherapy. The patient listened to a recorded hypnosis session, which was constructed according to the new proposed principle.

After three weeks of near-daily listening to the session, the patient’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale score decreased by 38.5%, which helped achieve a 51.5% reduction from the initial score, suggesting that this method might have significantly contributed to the therapeutic outcome. In addition, this article discusses the differences between the proposed approach and previously published hypnotherapeutic methods for OCD treatment and the hypothetical use of such an approach for other disorders characterized by compulsive behavior. Further randomized controlled studies are needed to confirm the efficacy of hypnotic approaches for treating OCD.

Hypnotically facilitated exposure response prevention therapy for an OIF veteran with OCD (2010)

[Abstract]
The highly stressful conditions of a war zone may exacerbate or trigger a wide variety of symptoms including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) once a service member returns home. Service members and new veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars present to treatment with multiple psychosocial concerns and co-morbid psychiatric conditions. Evidence-based treatments including exposure based therapies are commonly recommended for use with returning veterans.

Although studies support the efficacy of Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy for treating OCD, eligibility for these studies limits participation to subjects who self-report a well-defined, circumscribed complaint. This approach is not typical of clinic clients who, more often than not, report multiple psychological issues. The following individual case study demonstrates how integrating hypnosis facilitated the cognitive-behavioral ERP therapy and treatment for a patient suffering from OCD.