Living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can feel overwhelming and exhausting. You might find yourself stuck in repetitive thought patterns or rituals that feel impossible to break, even though you know they’re not helpful. Whether it’s constant checking, counting, cleaning, mental rituals or intrusive thoughts, OCD can take up a huge amount of your time and energy and leave you feeling anxious, frustrated and exhausted.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy offers a gentle, forward-looking way to help you regain control, reduce anxiety, and start focusing on what’s truly important to you.
OCD is a type of anxiety disorder that involves unwanted, intrusive thoughts/obsessions and repetitive behaviours or mental acts (compulsions). These compulsions are often performed to try to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsessions but they rarely offer lasting relief. Instead, they tend to reinforce the cycle, making the thoughts feel even more powerful.
You might feel like you’re constantly battling your own mind, trying to resist or neutralise thoughts that feel distressing or irrational. Even though you know the compulsions don’t make sense, it can feel impossible not to act on them.
From a brain perspective, OCD is linked to overactivity in the amygdala, the part of your brain responsible for detecting threats and triggering anxiety. At the same time, the prefrontal cortex, which helps you make rational decisions and override emotional responses, struggles to stay in control.
This creates a loop: intrusive thought → anxiety → compulsion → temporary relief → reinforcement of the thought. Over time, this loop becomes deeply ingrained, and your brain starts to treat these patterns as normal, even though they’re causing distress.
Solution focused hypnotherapy doesn’t dwell on the past or ask you to re-live difficult experiences. Instead, it helps you focus on the future, on what life could look like free from OCD, and on the small, achievable steps that can help you get there.
In sessions, you’ll be encouraged to explore what’s already going well, what you’d like to be different, and how you can start making progress. This helps your brain shift away from the problem and toward solutions, building new neural pathways that support healthier habits. You’ll learn how to redirect your attention from obsessive thoughts to more helpful, empowering ones.
The hypnosis part of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a deeply relaxing experience. You’ll be guided into a calm, focused state where your mind becomes more receptive to positive suggestions and visualisations.
In this state, your brain moves into alpha and theta frequencies, which are associated with creativity, emotional regulation, and problem-solving. This helps:
Hypnosis works to calm your nervous system and give your brain the space it needs to change. You won’t be “under” or out of control, you’ll simply be relaxed, focused, and open to change.
One of the most common barriers to seeking help for OCD is the fear of having to talk about your intrusive thoughts. Many people with OCD experience thoughts that feel dark, disturbing, or even shameful, and while these thoughts are not a reflection of who you are, they can feel incredibly distressing and difficult to share.
The good news is that you don’t need to describe your thoughts or compulsions unless you want to. The approach is designed to be gentle, respectful, and future-focused. It’s not about analysing the content of your thoughts, it’s about helping you change your relationship with them.
You’ll be guided to focus on what you want life to look like without OCD, rather than what’s currently going wrong. This means you can experience the benefits without having to share anything that feels uncomfortable or private.
The regular hypnosis helps you sleep better, feel calmer, and start to reframe your thoughts as your subconscious becomes more open to change. When more time is spent in the intellectual, logical part of the brain and less time in the primitive, emotional part of the brain, over time, the compulsions lose their grip, and you begin to feel more like yourself again.
OCD can feel like it’s running your life but it doesn’t have to. With the right support, you can break the cycle, reduce your anxiety, and start focusing on what really matters to you. You can take the first step towards reclaiming your life with a free 15-30 minute discovery call.
The purpose of the call is to:
There’s absolutely no obligation, just an opportunity to see if this approach resonates with you.