Hypnosis for Weight loss & Emotional Eating

Hypnosis for weight loss and emotional eating, in New York and online.

By Katerina Tsernou | Hypnosomatics

Every year a new solution arrives promising to finally be the answer. The diet. The program. The injection. And for a while it works, until the old patterns return, because nothing driving them was ever addressed.

The food is not the problem

Most approaches count the calories, restrict the portions, suppress the appetite. But the body is doing what the mind is asking of it, and the mind learned those instructions a long time ago. For many people food became comfort, reward, or safety early in life. That association was practiced thousands of times until it felt like hunger, even when the body was not hungry at all.

Why willpower keeps losing

Willpower operates in the conscious mind. The patterns driving emotional eating, binge eating and yo-yo dieting sit deeper, in the subconscious and in the body, formed long before the first diet was attempted. Appetite medication can have a real place under medical supervision, and that is a conversation for you and your physician. What it does not do is change what food means to you.

How the work goes

We work with the associations directly: what eating is for, what restriction sets off, what your body has come to mean. You leave with self-hypnosis recordings and tools for cravings and emotional regulation. This is usually a series of around eight sessions, alongside with nutritional care rather than instead of it. Online worldwide, in person in New York and Miami by request.

Common questions:

What if emotional eating is the real issue?

Then you are in the right place. A 2025 review of 47 studies and 6,729 adults found emotional eating interventions produced large improvements in emotional eating and an average four kilograms of weight change. The techniques that worked best targeted beliefs, values and self-monitoring.

Can I do this while taking medication?

Yes. Nothing in a session involves medication. This work sits alongside medical care, never instead of it, and any change to a prescription is between you and your physician. Many people start while still taking something, and notice the noise around food quieting first.

You are not addicted to food. You are hungry for something else, and when that is finally addressed the relationship with eating changes in a way no diet reaches. Food stops being the enemy and stops being the solution. This is what I call the Eating Protocol, part of HypnoSomatics®.

Weight and eating patterns usually take more than one set of sessions. Most people work through the first four, then continue.

If now isn't the right time, this is the recording I give clients to use between sessions.

-Katerina

Delestre et al. (2022), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35170724/ Power et al. (2025), Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39763344/