by Matt Krouwel | Apr 8, 2019 | irritable bowel syndrome
Hypnotherapy for IBS – 35 years of success! Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic functional disorder of the gut and bowel characterised by substantial fluctuations in bowel movement and is often associated with pain1, 2. It causes misery for millions of people... 
by Matt Krouwel | Mar 9, 2019 | irritable bowel syndrome
On-line hypnotherapy for IBS works A recently published article by the Manchester IBS research group has found that on-line hypnotherapy for IBS works (Hasan et al 2019). By this they mean that hypnotherapy, the use of suggestions and metaphors in the hypnotic state... 
by Matt Krouwel | Feb 7, 2019 | profession
Professional Hypnotherapy – Are we a profession yet? A sociologist, a doctor and a hypnotherapist walk into a room. This isn’t the start of a painful joke or tortuous anecdote but a meeting I had a couple of weeks ago. The meeting sparked a discussion which asked the... by Matt Krouwel | Oct 22, 2018 | dyspepsia
Hypnotherapy for Functional dyspepsia Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a disorder of the digestion, specifically movement and sensation in the gut are not acting appropriately. In FD the reason for this failure to act properly cannot be observed in any physical sense,... 
by Matt Krouwel | Oct 6, 2017 | vaginismus
What is vaginismus? Vaginismus is ‘persistent or recurrent difficulties of the woman to allow vaginal entry of a penis, a finger, and or any object, despite the woman’s expressed wish to do so.’ (Basson et al 2004) This tightness is usually caused by a tensing of the...