Treatment of Eating Disorders through Hypnosis

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Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH is one of the most highly qualified and experienced clinical hypnotherapists, who is also  practices nutritional medicine, in Australia today who has received worldwide recognition and praise for her research and development of clinical procedures.

Do you think you have an eating disorder?

Have people said that you have really strange eating habits?

Is the eating disorder negatively affecting your health?

Are you looking for effective hypnotherapy help to overcome that disorder?

There are several kinds of eating disorders that range from malnutrition to obesity and include anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder, nutritional deficiency combined with obesity, pica and eating disorders arising as a direct result of physiological illnesses and medical treatments.

Since I was a dancer when I was much younger, I have been around people with eating disorders and for many years I have provided effective eating disorder treatment.

What is important to recognise is that there are faults in the way a person thinks and eating disorder treatment can help considerably.

We all can develop strange ways of thinking at times and when that becomes attached to the issues of eating, it produces an eating disorder.

People get lost, feel isolated, sometimes thinking no one else knows about the problems they are having around food.

In fact some people even manage to hide their eating disorders from other people that might not seem apparent until they become obviously ill.

People can also become in denial about their eating disorders. They pretend that it is not really an eating disorder and that it is perfectly ok to abuse their bodies in activities such as vomiting, starving or overeating. This denial can give rise to aggressive and defensive behaviour if other people try to raise the issue.

Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH teaching hypnotherapists how to help patients with eating disorders.

Are you partly in denial that you have to make major changes to your eating patterns?

Doing nothing and continuing to do the same old patterns is not a wise move. The earlier an eating disorder is treated, the better the outcome.

However, regardless of how long you might have been suffering from an eating disorder, treatment can help.

In fact as soon as you realise you might have an eating disorder you need to seek professional help because some people die of eating disorders because they did nothing or refused treatment.

Many people have got over their eating disorders, started to practise good eating patterns and attained a stable healthy weight after they have dealt with the emotional problems that caused the eating disorder in the first place.

And there are always emotional and thinking issues, as well as behavioural problems involved when it comes to eating disorders.

Eating disorders are not just bad eating habits, so we may need to look into the reasons the disorder developed in the first place.

It is important during treatment that we discover why you developed the dysfunctional eating pattern. Was it something to do with your childhood, teenage peer-pressure, the results of an unhealthy relationship or because you suffered an illness?

It may even be driven by a variety of anxieties that you have never addressed. Part of treatment includes treating those anxiety states so in future you are better able to handle stress loads and any emerging situations.

Did you know that using hypnotherapy is a really comfortable,  positive and effective way to treat eating disorders?

Undergoing hypnotherapy does not mean you have to go through trauma from the past but it does mean you need to address the unfinished business that has not yet been resolved.

Sometimes when people come into therapy I am the first person to whom they have admitted that their eating patterns are out of control.

In addition to offering eating disorder counselling, I am also a naturopath, trained in nutritional medicine and western herbalism. I may add in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and other therapeutic approaches in healing someone with an eating disorder.

All eating disorders can benefit dramatically from dietary consideration and lifestyle changes, in which we follow a naturopathic model, cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy.

You are not alone. Eating disorders are much more common than you might think. Consider that most people have never been taught to eat well at school or by their family probably because those people did not know how to eat well either. In reality most illnesses are down to poor diet and lifestyle for which there is no pill or treatment.

It has been 50 years now since I started in health clubs helping people control their eating. At over 60 I still wear the same size trousers I did when I was 16 and for my age I am one the healthiest people you will ever meet.  So I am not just some clinician sitting in a chair reading from a text book, I actually live the healthy eating life you will learn.

My experience of working with thousands of people is that when someone is committed to change and prepared to learn new ways of thinking, living and eating you can start developing healthy eating habits.

When you add hypnotherapy to the mix of treatments we holistically use to recover from an eating disorder, treatment becomes accelerated and more effective

I always use hypnosis with eating disorders. In the clinic I find it is the fastest way to help people.

I believe that if you and your body are in distress we need to help you fix things fast. Your gastrointestinal system is the very beginning of your health as you absorb the right nutrients to be healthy and happy – and everyone deserves to be healthy and happy.

Book your hypnotherapy appointment with Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH by calling 02 8021 6429.

Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, BHSc, ND, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist. Counsellor, PACFA registered Mental Health Professional and Naturopath in Sydney. You can get help by booking an appointment with me at the Australian Health & Education Centre.

DISCLAIMER:  *Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to anyone else’s. The nature of therapy requires each person entering therapy to actively engage in the session and to carry out any additional recommendations outside the session, so results vary according to the individual.