Hypnosis to aid Cancer Treatment
Reduce Side Effects of Treatment
Gentle hypnosis to help manage anxiety, treatment-related distress and emotional overload during and after cancer care.
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What You’re Living With · Why This Helps · What Might Change · Working Together · Science Behind It
Cancer treatment turns life into appointments, results and waiting rooms.
Hypnotherapy can’t treat cancer itself, but research shows it can reduce anxiety, distress and some procedure-related pain and nausea for many people.
We offer a quiet, clinical space focused on you as a person, not just a diagnosis.
Are you experiencing?
In Treatment and Tired of Being “The Patient” All the Time?
Pre-scan or pre-appointment dread that hijacks days or weeks
Difficulty sleeping, even when you’re exhausted
Feeling like your whole life is tests, treatment and side effects
Trying to stay “strong” for everyone else
Worry about the future crowding out any sense of normal life
How hypnosis can support people living with cancer
Hypnosis can be a valuable complementary support during cancer treatment. It does not treat or cure cancer, but it may help with some of the emotional and physical challenges that can come with diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Reducing anxiety and scanxiety
Hypnosis can help reduce anticipatory fear around scans, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and medical appointments. Mental rehearsal and calming suggestions may help you feel more prepared and less overwhelmed.
Supporting comfort and treatment-related symptoms
Hypnosis has been studied for helping with pain, nausea, treatment-related distress and other uncomfortable sensations. It may help some people experience these symptoms as less overwhelming while continuing appropriate medical care.
Creating mental rest
Cancer can make it difficult to switch off from appointments, treatment plans and health-related worry. Hypnosis can create a temporary sense of calm and psychological space — a chance to step out of “patient mode” for a while.
Strengthening emotional coping
Hypnosis may help you work with fear, sadness, uncertainty and emotional overwhelm, while building a greater sense of steadiness, confidence and control.
Reconnecting with life beyond cancer
Cancer can begin to dominate how life feels. Hypnosis can help you reconnect with the parts of yourself that remain important — your relationships, values, strengths, identity and meaningful moments.
Hypnosis is a gentle, non-invasive complementary therapy and should be used alongside, not instead of, your oncology and medical care.
What Might Change for You?
Less dread leading up to scans or treatment days
More moments of calm, even in a hard season
Better sleep or more genuine rest, even if sleep is broken
Feeling less consumed by anxiety and more like yourself
A sense of being supported as a whole person
What to Expect in Sessions?
Start from where you are – diagnosis, stage, treatment plan, energy levels.
Name what would help most – anxiety, sleep, specific procedures, identity, conversations with loved ones.
Gentle, adaptable hypnosis – short, tailored sessions that respect fatigue and medical demands.
Practical support tools – brief practices you can use in waiting rooms, during infusions.
Next steps
You don’t have to just “put up with side effects”.
If you want research-backed support alongside your medical care:
Book a Free 15-Minute Discovery Call – see if this feels like the right kind of support now.
Or Book Initial Consultation to discuss your health challenges, goals and form a Hypnotherapy based treatment plan.
Or Book a Hypnotherapy Session if you are ready to begin.
Gentle
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Deeply Relaxing
Going through treatment for cancer can be challenging experience in itself.
Hypnotherapy can help with effectively managing the treatment side effects
Research
Hypnotherapy has been clinically tested with good results for helping people cope with pain, anxiety, fatigue, hot flushes, nausea and vomiting related to cancer treatment.
People with cancer most often use hypnotherapy for sickness or pain. There is some evidence that hypnotherapy helps with depression, anxiety and stress.
Hypnosis is an efficacious tool in cancer prevention and control.
The evidence suggests that hypnosis may help treat symptoms of nausea and vomiting in breast cancer patients, manage pain in a variety of contexts, and also reduce levels of anxiety and overall distress around surgical and medical procedures, both in children and adults.
Findings revealed hypnotherapy’s noninvasiveness and flexibility, aligning with patient-centered care models.
One strategy that can help cope with cancer is clinical hypnosis.
Clinical hypnosis has been described in the medical literature to relieve a broad spectrum of symptoms, including treatment of common symptoms associated with cancer care- pain, nausea, fatigue, sleep and hot flashes.
An Italian study published in Oncologyin 2000 followed 16 adult cancer patients suffering from nausea and vomiting just before their next chemotherapy doses, which is sometimes called "anticipatory" nausea and vomiting. After they underwent hypnosis, the nausea and vomiting disappeared.
For cancer patients, hypnotherapy could offer a host of benefits, including managing nausea, pain, anxiety, depression and increasing the quality of life. "Hypnotherapy is very non-threatening and non-invasive, and it has no side effects.