Built around your specific pattern
Your session is generated from your own consultation. We ask which area, focused or automatic, what state triggers it. Built around your specifics.
Hair pulling regulates a specific kind of activation. Naming what it's regulating is the start of giving the body other options.
Trichotillomania (hair-pulling) belongs to the Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviour (BFRB) family — alongside skin picking, nail biting, and similar patterns. These are neurologically real, not willpower failures. They run below conscious choice and serve real functions: regulation of activation (too much energy, restlessness), suppression of feeling, focus during cognitive tasks, or a soothing self-stimulation.
Specialist treatment for BFRBs typically involves habit-reversal training, often within CBT. The session is designed to sit alongside that work — addressing the underlying state that produces the urge and supporting the felt sense of being settled without the behaviour. It is not a substitute for specialist care, and we'd ask you to make sure you have appropriate professional support in place.
Aware pulling, often during stress or rumination. Each pull conscious; the relief identifiable. The session works on the underlying activation.
Pulling without awareness during reading, watching TV, on the phone. Often the hardest to interrupt because it's outside consciousness.
Eyelashes, eyebrows, scalp, body hair. Each location has its own emotional load.
The reach, the relief, then the shame. The shame loop that often produces the next pulling episode.
The wind-down hour as the highest-risk time. The session particularly targets this window.
Predictable flare-ups during difficult periods. The session can be re-listened to as a stress-management tool.
The urge happens before conscious decision. By the time you notice your hand at your hair, the deeper system has already organised for the pull. Self-criticism doesn't interrupt the pattern.
Hypnotherapy works at the level the pattern operates. Rather than overriding the urge, it offers the deeper mind different responses to the underlying activation and supports the felt sense of being settled without the behaviour. It works best alongside habit-reversal and specialist BFRB care. The American Psychological Association recognises hypnotherapy as an evidence-based psychological approach.
The session is designed as supportive care alongside specialist BFRB treatment — never replacing it.
Your session is generated from your own consultation. We ask which area, focused or automatic, what state triggers it. Built around your specifics.
We assume you have or are seeking specialist BFRB support. The session is supportive, not substitutive.
Three short voice recordings during the consultation are analysed for emotional tone. BFRB activation has signature in voice; the session is calibrated accordingly.
Every Hypnotrack pathway is built on clinical frameworks from a qualified hypnotherapist — registered, National Hypnotherapy Society (HYP16-03742).
The Habits & Behaviours pathway is designed to support the work specialist treatment is doing.
Pulling outside awareness during TV, reading, scrolling. The session works on the underlying state so the reach is less recruited.
Conscious pulling during stress or rumination. The session targets the activation that the pulling is regulating.
The cycle that triggers more pulling. The session particularly works on this.
The bookend times when pulling often peaks. The session can be calibrated around these windows.
When pulling worsens with life stress. The session is most useful during these high-risk periods.
The first months of reducing pulling. The session supports the new patterns settling in.
Your session is around 15 minutes of personalised hypnotherapy audio. It opens with breath and grounding work — slow and gentle.
It moves into recognition of your specific hair-pulling pattern. New patterns are introduced: the felt sense of the underlying activation being workable without the pull, alternative responses to the urge, and gentleness toward the part of you that has been finding regulation this way. Future-pacing — what daily life feels like with the behaviour quieter. Yours forever.
Built from your own consultation — your specific pattern, your own language, the gentleness the work requires.
We won't promise to treat trichotillomania. It's a recognised condition that benefits from specialist treatment — particularly Habit Reversal Training and Comprehensive Behavioural Treatment. The session is supportive alongside that care, not a replacement.
Specialist resources: TLC Foundation for BFRBs, OCD-UK (covers BFRBs), or speak to your GP for referral.
No — absolutely not. BFRBs benefit from specialist treatment (Habit Reversal Training is the most evidence-based). The session sits alongside that work, not in place of it.
No. BFRBs respond to consistent treatment over months, not days. The session supports the underlying state; specialist work handles the behavioural interruption.
BFRBs serve real regulatory functions — discharging activation, soothing, focus. They're not weakness or weirdness. The specialist work usually involves understanding what your specific pulling is regulating.
Same family (BFRBs), different specific pattern. The session can be calibrated to either; many people have multiple BFRBs.
We understand — BFRB shame is common. The session can be a private starting point. But please consider reaching out to a specialist eventually; the work compounds far better with support.
Around 15 minutes. Delivered within 30 minutes. Yours forever.
No specific belief is required. You remain in control throughout.