Hypnosis consultations for Emotional Regulation
Have people called you "too sensitive" your whole life? Or the opposite: have you become so self-possessed that you no longer quite know what you feel?
Overflowing or shutting everything down: two sides of the same missing piece: emotional regulation, a skill that can be learned, and one school never taught us.
Our hypnotherapists work with you in practice in Paris, Brunoy, Lille, Strasbourg, Saverne, Voiron, Montpellier, Saint-Gilles, or by video anywhere in France: feel just as much, overflow less, without turning into someone cold.
Understanding Emotions
Emotions are messengers, and regulation is a skill
No emotion is "negative": fear signals a possible danger, anger a boundary crossed, sadness a loss to take in, joy a direction that suits you…
The problem is never the emotion, it is its regulation, that capacity to modulate intensity and expression according to context, which psychological science defines precisely (APA — Dictionary of Psychology) and whose research shows it can be measured and learned (NIH — National Institutes of Health).
Turn the volume down, without cutting the sound.
A pure emotion works like a wave: it rises, peaks and settles within a few minutes if you let it run its course.
What makes it last: the struggle ("I shouldn't be feeling this," and what you resist persists), rumination that relaunches the wave on every lap, and the shame of feeling it.
For the full mechanism, read our complete guide on solutionshypnose.com.
Why emotions overflow in you
Highly sensitive? The trait has its own page
The term has taken hold in France these past few years, and it took that to name something real: some people feel more strongly, more quickly, for longer, and pick up other people's emotions like a sponge.
Let us be clear about what the bestsellers sometimes gloss over: high sensitivity is neither an illness nor a diagnosis, it is a temperament trait found in 20 to 30% of the population, documented by research for some thirty years.
If that sounds like you, our dedicated page is the one you want: it sets out the four markers of the trait, what the science actually says, the strengths it brings, and how to work with it without ever trying to feel less.
→ High sensitivity: understanding and working with a sensitive temperament
"Don't make waves": workplace restraint and its price
Our work culture treats emotion as weakness: you "keep your cool," you "stick to the facts," you cry in the bathroom rather than in a meeting.
That restraint carries a cost many discover late: a swallowed emotion does not disappear, it gets stored. And the pressure cooker empties in the wrong place (at home, on those closest to you) or turns into physical symptoms (tension, jaw, sleep; any lasting symptom deserves a medical opinion). Others push restraint all the way to numbness: no more overflow… but no more joy or drive either, and that question becomes impossible: "what are you feeling?".
What Hypnosis Offers for Emotional Regulation
Our approach: a wave is something you surf
In three to six sessions, generally:
- learning to recognise the wave earlier (every emotion has its physical warning signs, and the earlier you spot them, the more choice you have);
- surfing instead of drowning: training in a hypnotic state to move through an emotion safely, letting it rise, observing it, letting it settle;
- turning down the volume of an overwhelming emotion without silencing it (the message stays, the tidal wave goes);
- lifting the old rules ("boys don't cry," "be nice"): gently, at a distance, never by "reliving" anything painful;
- learning to say it: speaking up while it is small rather than exploding once it is large (see Self-Confidence).
Self-hypnosis becomes your everyday tool.
One emotion dominating? Our dedicated pages take over
- Recurring anger (Anger Management),
- the sadness of a loss or a break-up (Sadness & Grief),
- fears and phobias (Fears & Phobias),
- a constant undercurrent of anxiety (Stress & Anxiety).
And for children and teens: see Hypnosis for Children and Hypnosis for Teens.
When to see a psychologist or a doctor first
Overwhelming emotions that last for weeks and disrupt how you function, a mood that has collapsed along with your interest in everything, emotions tied to a trauma, or a total emotional emptiness that worries you: see a psychologist or a doctor first, these situations can be treated.
We will tell you so at the first meeting, and hypnosis can follow as a complement.
What our clients say
« I'm very happy to have had gentle yet effective hypnosis sessions that helped move forward my healing process after a scam that was extremely difficult, with serious injustices involved. Nuria is very professional, attentive, and knows how to guide us toward the right solution. Thank you! »
Louise, client of Nuria Perez de Leon
« With Annie, I feel heard, understood, and taken seriously. She's kind, empathetic, and determined to help, using different approaches from one session to the next to make sure it works. She genuinely cares about her clients and their well-being. My sessions with her brought me huge relief and helped me let go of a weight I'd been carrying on my shoulders for many years. I recommend her without any hesitation. »
Danielle, client of Annie Mayrand
« I walked in a big skeptic, and I walked out feeling like the whole thing was pointless, kind of a big meh... You blew me away. I saw the change happen within 48 hours, and I've left "the baggage" behind ever since. To think I'd been dragging that around for close to 30 years, poisoning my life. I'm a total convert, and I'm already looking forward to our next session to keep cleaning house. Thanks again. Yves »
Yves
Ready to feel just as much, but overflow less?
In Office or Online Across France
Offices in Paris, Lille…
And if you live far away or elsewhere in the world, online sessions work very well. Evening slots available.
Frequently asked questions about hypnosis for emotional regulation
No, and that "too" mostly says something about other people's discomfort. Strong sensitivity is a trait, with real assets you already know (empathy, intuition, depth) and costs that can be worked on: the overflows, the exhaustion, the over-adapting. The aim is not to feel less, it is to stop being submerged. You keep the sensitivity; you lose the shipwreck.
It is not an illness, most of the time it is an overflow finding the smallest opening, a strong sensitivity, or tears carrying another, forbidden emotion (anger you are not allowed to express often comes out as tears). The work identifies your own mechanism and installs regulation. If the crying comes with a lastingly collapsed mood, mention it to a doctor as well.
Not numbness, it costs far too much. The work installs three things: early detection (acting as the wave rises, not once it overflows), the release valve (letting go through the day rather than storing until evening), and calibrated expression: saying things calmly and professionally while they are still small. Which, paradoxically, goes down far better than the quarterly explosion.
Very well, it is the relational side of high sensitivity. We install "hatches": staying empathetic (your strength) without carrying other people's loads any more, feeling their rain without getting soaked. Boundary-setting techniques in hypnosis, recentring anchors, recovery after high-intensity days, and one right to claim: the right not to take it on.
No, that is a principle of the method: the work is done safely, at a distance, as an observer, and you will never go further than what you can comfortably move through. And if a traumatic experience is involved, the first step is a psychologist trained in psychological trauma. We will point you there.
Not by the French health insurance system. Many complementary insurers (mutuelles), however, reimburse several sessions a year through their "alternative medicine" allowance. Check your policy before the first session; we provide an invoice.
Hypnotherapy is a wellbeing support. It replaces neither medical nor psychological care, and does not constitute psychotherapy.
Page written by Annie Mayrand
hypnotherapist and NLP coach
partner at Solutions Hypnose.
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