Hypnotherapy for erectile dysfunction:

How hypnotherapy works for erectile dysfunction

Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can help address both the physical and psychological factors that contribute to ED. Much more than just entering a deep state of relaxation, my sessions will help you:

• Reduce stress and anxiety: Stress and anxiety can significantly impact sexual function. Hypnosis can be an effective stress-management tool to help you promote a more relaxed state of mind.
• Improve blood flow: Hypnosis can help increase blood flow to the penis and also help prevent blood from leaving, which is essential for achieving and maintaining an erection.
• Enhance nerve function: Drawing from my experience in treating chronic pain sufferers, hypnosis can improve nerve function and the way the brain interprets nerve signals, which plays a crucial role in sexual arousal and response.

Here’s what I won’t do

when providing hypnotherapy for erectile dysfunction 

• Offer “quick fixes” that amount to putting plasters on gunshot wounds.
• Claim to be able to help everyone. There are some cases for which better treatments are available.
• Use treatments which are not supported by good quality empirical, scientific evidence.
• Make guarantees about “cures”: You are a co-collaborator in this with me. As such you will bear some responsibility for the success of treatment. But you will leave my sessions with full ownership of the result.

Before, During and After

Before any treatment starts we have to process payment (see fees). The next step is the questionnaire. You’ll not be able to book a session until you’ve filled in the questionnaire. It’s quite in depth and I’ll use it to begin to shape your treatment plan before we meet. After answering all the questions you can book a session allowing me two working days to review your answers and form some initial opinions.

During the Initial Consultation, we’ll review your answers and refine my initial opinions until we fully agree on the problem, how you experience it, and your goals and have a clear plan to proceed.

Subsequent sessions will focus on specific interventions within the hypnotic environment, further optimising the effectiveness of hypnosis to manage and control your body’s response to sexual arousal.

You can expect talk. Initially there will be a lopsided amount of information as I bring you up to speed with what is essentially a new skill. I encourage you to be actively involved, so you’ll need to understand the method. It’s important that you understand the process and have agency in your journey. But no matter how many sessions you’ve had, expect to find yourself talking about work, social interactions, feelings, emotions and personal routines etc.

You can expect to remain awake and aware during sessions and can expect to remember them, much like a normal conversation.

Now, What Do I Expect Of You?

This is a short and simple list, but getting it said helps to smooth the way.

Honesty: We’re going to be discussing some highly personal things and potentially some things that may come loaded with guilt and shame. I will do my best to keep things from being too jarring, but there may be a need to get into some difficult topics.

Patience: In many cases the issues around ED are deep seated and well practiced by both body and mind. Often, men have avoided thinking about it in the hopes that it’ll just go away. I need you to patiently grapple with these issues in a structured and managed way as we progress through the sessions. Progress may take time and setbacks are a normal part of healing.

Open communication: If you feel something is not working for you or if you have questions, I expect you to tell me or ask me. Don’t sit and stew for ages; there may be something I can do to change, redefine or explain something in a way that suits you better.

Attendance: This is one of the reasons I ask my clients to pay before the session; I know it can be a bind to get therapy, that last minute “argh” as we argue with ourselve that we “don’t really need it”, “it’s not that bad”. Be committed to your course of action both for your own sake and for the benefit of your partner. Have the courage to put down any apprehensions and if needs be discuss them with me so we can work around them.

Prompt payment: As alluded to above I see the payment part of things as a part of the therapy process. I want you not only to be present, but actively involved and invested. For this reason I leave it up to you whether you pay for your sessions altogether or one at a time. Realistically altogether means paying for 4 sessions at once, if you need any more after that point you can do so on a session-by-session basis.

Fees, Refunds and

How Many Sessions

The science shows that people do best when treated over a period of 4-12 sessions. For this reason I don’t take on clients who aren’t willing to commit to at least 4 sessions (obviously you can opt out if you really feel it’s not for you, but I think, before 4 sessions you haven’t allowed enough time for improvement).

You can book a free 15 minute conversation by phone or Zoom according to your preference.

The first session (Initial Consultation) is £55. At one hour, it is a little longer than the other sessions because it includes all of the admin, the health and safety information and forms the basis of how I design my treatment plan around your needs. I don’t read from “hypnosis scripts” or use a weird voice, I talk man to man and instruct you on how to use your mind to overcome your problems. In this session I’ll show you how hypnosis works and give you some generic exercises to get you started and find out what we need to work on in the weeks to come.

Subsequent sessions (2-4) are 45 minutes long and cost £45. It’s best to leave an hour, just in case anything important happens toward the end of the session.

Additional sessions. If for any reason you wish to continue treatment beyond 4 sessions, these additional sessions will be charged at £40.

Refunds. If you wish to stop treatment for whatever reason please let me know at least 48 working hours before your next scheduled appointment. I operated a graduated refund policy.
+48hrs notice: full refund -£5 admin fee.
48-24 hrs notice: 50% refund.
24hrs or less: No refund.

Any money you have paid upfront can be refunded.

Here’s a some examples to clarify:

Dave booked a free 15 minute Zoom call. He decided to go ahead with treatment, knowing himself, he wanted to commit to 4 sessions by paying upfront. That’s:
1 x Initial Consultation (£55)
3 x Subsequent sessions (£45 each)
Dave paid £190.
Dave decided, after three sessions, that he has enough info and skill to carry on without the 4th session. He gets a refund of £40 (£5 is retained for refund admin).
Total cost: £150.

Geoff booked a free 15 minute call and later decided to go ahead with treatment. He didn’t have the cash flow to pay all at once, so he paid one session at a time.
After paying for the initial consultation Geoff was sent the questionnaire.
He returned his completed questionnaire the same day and was invited to choose an available appointment date that suited him. (Allow two working days for me to review the answers and devise an initial treatment plan. I know that can feel slow, but it seems to produce the best results).
Geoff attended 6 sessions in total. He would advise not “going half-ass on the homework tasks”; he didn’t realise how important it is to be engaged in the mindset of the therapy even out of sessions, though he saw the value of the treatment he recognised that his own approach had slowed him down a bit.
1 x Initial consultation (£55)
3 x subsequent sessions (£45)
2 x additional sessions (£40)
Total cost: £270

Sam chose not to proceed with treatment. He is going to continue taking the NHS prescribed version of Viagra (sildenafil), which he has been taking for the last 2 years.
Sam gets the standard recommended dose: 4 x 50mg tablets a month. Allowing for medicated sexual activity once a week.
Sam pays £9.90 (£9.65 before May 24) a month for his prescriptions.
At the time he came to me he had spent £233.10 on his monthly prescriptions.
Sam will continue paying as long he continues this treatment path.

This is not to say “don’t go the drug route”. I’ve included Sam’s story to set the financial value of Hypnotherapy for erectile dysfunction in a fair context. In some cases drugs are the only option, but for a great many men, you can be able to enjoy an active and fulfilling sex life without ongoing drugs, costs or treatments with a little well placed investment in your mental wellbeing.