If you’ve been struggling with trichotillomania, you know how isolating, frustrating, and exhausting it can be. Maybe you’ve promised yourself a hundred times that you’ll stop pulling your hair—only to find yourself doing it again minutes later, often without even realizing it.
You might feel ashamed, confused, or even completely out of control.
And if you’ve ever thought, Why am I doing this? Why can’t I just stop?—you’re not alone.
What Is Trichotillomania?
Trichotillomania is a compulsive hair-pulling disorder where a person repeatedly pulls out hair from their scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or other areas of the body.
It often feels like an impulse you can’t control, and people with trichotillomania may experience:
✔️ A strong urge or tension before pulling
✔️ A sense of relief or satisfaction after pulling
✔️ Feelings of shame, guilt, or embarrassment afterward
✔️ Avoidance of social situations because of hair loss
✔️ A cycle of wanting to stop, but feeling unable to
If this sounds familiar, I want you to know something important:
💡 This isn’t about willpower.
💡 You’re not broken.
💡 And most importantly, you CAN break free from this cycle.
Why Hypnotherapy Works for Trichotillomania
Most treatments for trichotillomania focus on behavior modification—trying to force yourself to stop pulling. But here’s the truth:
❌ The hair-pulling is not the problem—it’s a symptom of something deeper.
This is why simply telling yourself to "just stop" doesn’t work. And this is why hypnotherapy is so effective—because it goes straight to the root of the behavior.
What’s REALLY Behind the Hair-Pulling?
Hair-pulling isn’t random. It serves a purpose.
Just like comfort eating, where a person turns to food to soothe emotional distress, hair-pulling is often the subconscious mind’s way of trying to help you cope with something.
👉 It could be stress relief.
👉 It could be self-soothing.
👉 It could be a way to manage anxiety or tension.
Your subconscious is always working to keep you safe—but sometimes, it develops coping mechanisms that come with unintended downsides.
For example:
🍩 If someone turns to food when they’re stressed, the subconscious believes it’s helping them feel better. But over time, this can lead to weight gain, guilt, and poor health—unintended consequences the subconscious never meant to create.
🪮 With trichotillomania, the subconscious believes hair-pulling serves a purpose—but it doesn’t understand the frustration, distress, and damage that come with it.
How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Stop Pulling for Good
Unlike traditional approaches that just try to get you to "resist" the urge, my approach to hypnotherapy is different.
Step 1: Identifying What the Impulse Is REALLY About
Before we even begin hypnosis, I use my 25+ years of experience to ask the right questions and listen for clues that reveal:
✔️ What your subconscious is trying to accomplish with hair-pulling
✔️ What emotional need it’s trying to meet
✔️ What triggers the behavior and what patterns are present
Step 2: Communicating with the Subconscious in Hypnosis
Once we understand what’s driving the behavior, we work in hypnosis to:
✅ Let the subconscious know that this behavior is NOT truly helping you
✅ Reframe the impulse and release the need to pull
✅ Identify new, more positive ways to meet the underlying need
Step 3: Finding a Better Way to Meet the Need
If the subconscious has been using hair-pulling to relieve stress, we find a healthier, more sustainable way to manage stress.
If it’s been a coping mechanism for anxiety, we train the mind to self-soothe in a way that actually supports your well-being.
This isn’t about just forcing yourself to stop—it’s about reprogramming the subconscious so that the urge disappears naturally because it no longer serves a purpose.
You Are Not Alone—And You Are Not Stuck
If you’ve been feeling hopeless, frustrated, or trapped in the cycle of hair-pulling, I want you to know: There is a way out.
✨ Hypnotherapy isn’t about willpower—it’s about working WITH your mind, not against it.
✨ You don’t have to live with this forever—you can retrain your brain and break free.
✨ You deserve to feel in control again.
If this resonates with you, I’d love to help. Reach out to me to learn more about how
hypnotherapy can help you stop pulling—for good.
If you want to learn how to help others release compulsive habits like trichotillomania—as well as anxiety, trauma, and other subconscious patterns—hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful tools available. My Whole Brain Hypnotherapy Certification Training teaches you how to work with the subconscious mind to create real, lasting change. Want to see what it's all about? Try the first two units of my training for FREE here: https://www.horizoncenterhypnotherapy.com/free-trial
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