GutBrainA – Connecting the Gut & Brain

Yearly Membership

GutBrainA represents the connection of the Gut–Brain Axis — the constant two-way communication between your digestive system, nervous system and brain.

At the heart of this connection is the Enteric Nervous System (ENS), sometimes referred to as the “second brain.” The ENS is an extensive network of neurons within the gastrointestinal tract that helps regulate important digestive functions including intestinal movement, secretion and communication of sensations from the gut.

GutBrainA is an 8-week Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy programme designed to work with this gut–brain communication and support a calmer, more regulated relationship between the brain, nervous system and digestive system.

The Enteric Nervous System & Your Gut

Your digestive system doesn't operate independently from your brain.

The Enteric Nervous System contains hundreds of millions of nerve cells embedded throughout the gastrointestinal tract and communicates continuously with the central nervous system through the gut–brain axis.

This communication helps influence:

• Gut motility and the movement of food through the digestive tract

• Sensations arising from the gut

• Digestive secretions

• Bowel function

• The body's response to digestive discomfort

• Communication between the gut and brain

When someone has IBS, this communication can become altered. The nervous system may become more sensitive to normal digestive sensations, meaning stretching, pressure, gas or intestinal movement may be experienced more intensely.

This is known as visceral hypersensitivity and is one of the important mechanisms associated with IBS.

Working With the Enteric Nervous System

GutBrainA uses Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy, relaxation and carefully designed therapeutic imagery to influence the brain–gut axis and the way the nervous system processes signals from the digestive tract.

Rather than thinking of the gut as simply a digestive tube, GutBrainA works with the understanding that digestion is closely connected to the nervous system.

Through repeated hypnotherapy sessions, the programme aims to encourage healthier communication between the brain, central nervous system and enteric nervous system.

The goal is to support a shift away from heightened gut sensitivity and nervous-system alertness towards a calmer and more regulated digestive response.

What’s Included

Your GutBrainA subscription includes a structured library of Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy sessions that guide you progressively through the programme.

The sessions focus on areas including:

• Calming the gut–brain axis

• Enteric nervous system regulation

• Visceral sensitivity

• Digestive motility and transit

• Constipation

• Diarrhoea

• Mixed bowel patterns

• Bloating and abdominal discomfort

• Abdominal pain

• Confidence around digestive sensations

• Nervous system regulation

• Sleep and deep relaxation

You’ll also have progress evaluations and symptom tracking, allowing you to monitor your digestive symptoms and recognise changes throughout your eight-week journey.

What Are the Potential Outcomes?

GutBrainA has been designed to help you develop a calmer relationship with your digestive system and support changes in the way your brain and nervous system respond to gut sensations.

The programme aims to support:

Reduced visceral hypersensitivity — helping digestive sensations become less overwhelming or uncomfortable.

Improved gut–brain communication — supporting communication between the brain, central nervous system and ENS.

Digestive regulation — targeted sessions work with imagery and suggestions relating to bowel motility, constipation, diarrhoea and mixed bowel patterns.

A calmer nervous system — encouraging relaxation and reducing the heightened state of alert that can accompany chronic digestive symptoms.

Greater confidence in your gut — helping reduce fear and hypervigilance surrounding digestive sensations and bowel habits.

Improved quality of life — helping you feel less controlled by your digestive system and more confident participating in everyday life.

Backed by Clinical Research

Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy has been clinically studied for several decades as a treatment approach for IBS.

Research has found meaningful improvements in overall IBS symptoms, abdominal pain and quality of life following Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy, with some studies reporting benefits that continue after the treatment programme has finished.

Importantly, Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy is not based on the idea that IBS symptoms are “all in your head.”

IBS is now understood as a disorder of gut–brain interaction, involving complex communication between the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system.

Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy works with this connection.

Your 8-Week GutBrainA Journey

The programme is designed to be followed consistently for eight weeks.

You begin by building the foundations — calming the nervous system, reconnecting with your gut and working with the gut–brain axis and enteric nervous system.

As the programme progresses, you move into more targeted sessions addressing your individual digestive patterns, including constipation, diarrhoea, bloating, pain and mixed IBS.

Repetition is an important part of the programme. Listening regularly allows the therapeutic suggestions and imagery to become increasingly familiar to the nervous system.

The sessions can be enjoyed from the comfort of your own home, particularly at times when you can deeply relax, such as before sleep or upon waking.

GutBrainA isn't about ignoring digestive symptoms.

It is about recognising that your gut, brain and nervous system are constantly communicating — and using evidence-based Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy to help influence that communication.

GutBrainA — reconnecting the Gut, Brain and Enteric Nervous System.

Subscription Information

GutBrainA is a yearly membership. Your subscription will automatically renew each year on the same date as your original purchase date, and your chosen payment method will be charged automatically.

You’ll continue to have access to GutBrainA for as long as your subscription remains active.

By choosing the yearly subscription, you’ll receive 12 months of uninterrupted access to GutBrainA while saving compared with paying month by month.

If you would prefer more flexibility, a monthly membership option is also available, allowing you to pay month by month and cancel at any time.