Body image and weight, without the promises
Let me be straight with you before you read any further, because this is where most pages like this start lying.
The honest answer first
Can clinical hypnotherapy make you lose or gain weight so you look exactly how you want to look?
No. Not by itself.
There is certainly a hypnotist somewhere who will promise you better results than a GLP-1. I am not that person, and I would treat the promise as a reason to leave the website.
What hypnosis and motivational interviewing genuinely do is help a great deal with the psychological side of a weight or body composition journey that is already being run properly — by you, with actual professionals handling the diet, the training and the medical side. My part is removing the blocks that keep sabotaging it.
Which is, for most people, the part that actually fails
Very few people fail because they do not know what to eat. They fail because of what happens at 9pm, or after a bad meeting, or at a party, or on day four of doing everything right when someone says something careless.
That is the layer I work on:
- Eating that is not about hunger. The reliable, automatic, slightly numb kind. Naming it changes nothing, which you already know.
- All-or-nothing collapse. One deviation and the whole week is written off. This one pattern undoes more progress than any single food choice.
- The voice in the mirror. Which is often not yours, and often much older than this project.
- Consistency — showing up on the days when motivation is simply absent, which is most days.
- Sleep and stress, both of which have straightforward physiological effects on appetite and recovery, and both of which hypnosis is good at.
The gay-specific part, said plainly
Gay male culture has a body problem, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. The standards are narrow, the visual sorting is constant and public, and a lot of men are carrying a version of themselves formed at fifteen while being appraised at forty-five.
Eating disorders are also meaningfully more common among gay men than straight men, and are routinely missed because the presentation does not match what clinicians are trained to look for. If that is what is happening, this is the wrong service and I will tell you — that needs specialist treatment, and it is treatable.
What I will not do
- Promise a number, a size, or a timeline
- Give you a diet, a training plan, or medical advice — that is not my lane
- Tell you your body is a problem to be solved. Sometimes the work is the opposite
Working alongside
This is at its most useful running in parallel with a dietitian, a trainer, or a physician managing medication. Tell them you are doing it. The combination is the point.
Practical details
- $250 per 60-minute session
- Online by secure video, worldwide
- Personalised recording included
- One session at a time — never a package
- English and Russian
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Body image and weight
So what results can you promise?
None, on the scale. What I have seen change reliably is the 9pm eating, the all-or-nothing collapse after one bad day, and the relationship with the mirror — and those are usually what determine whether anything else sticks.
Can this work alongside a GLP-1?
Yes, and it is a sensible pairing. Medication changes appetite; it does not change what you reach for when you are lonely, or what happens when you come off it. That gap is exactly the psychological work.
What if I want to gain, not lose?
Same work, and it comes up more than people expect — particularly for men who were thin as teenagers and still feel that way regardless of what has changed since.
How do I know if this is an eating disorder?
If eating is secret, if it is followed by compensating, if it is running your day, or if you cannot stop thinking about it — please get properly assessed. That is not a judgement, and it is not this service. Eating disorders respond well to the right treatment and badly to the wrong one.
Not sure this is for you? That is a fine place to start.
Send a request and tell me what is actually going on. I reply within one to two business days with your intake paperwork and a secure link to pay and pick your time. No payment is taken at the request stage, and if I am not the right person for this I will say so and point you somewhere better.
Requests go to a secure, HIPAA-compliant SimplePractice form — no payment is taken there. Sessions are held online by video, worldwide.