Let’s take the stress out of IBS, say goodbye to food fears, symptom tracking, restrictive diets, constant meal planning and ..
Hello to The Gut Brain Connection Method® a simple step by step process that resolves the root cause of symptoms so you can find relief from IBS without focusing on food.
Through my interactive online programme The Gut Brain Connection Method®, you’ll learn step-by-step how to restore balance in your gut brain connection, helping you find lasting relief from your IBS symptoms.
Over 12 weeks, I’ll guide you to embrace a holistic mind-body approach that will help you to calm urgency, ease bloating, relieve pain, alleviate constipation and reduce gut sensitivity, all without worrying about what to eat.
Investment: A one time payment of £1295 | 3 monthly payments of £432
You've seen your doctor a hundred times, cut out dairy, gluten, spices, and the rest.You’ve added prebiotics, probiotics, taken supplements and medications.
You’ve read every book on gut health.
You’ve tried it ALL and nothing has worked.
Life is still ruled by your tummy.
I get it, I understand the struggle, the anxiety, the limited support you have and just how hard it is to cope. Each day starts with countless trips to the bathroom so you can feel safe to leave the house. You have a mental map of toilets everywhere you go.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is classified as a Disorder of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) by the American Gastroenterological Association and Rome Foundation. Meaning IBS is a problem with the messages sent between the gut and the brain through the gut brain axis.
The miscommunication between the brain and the gut causes hypersensitivity within the gut along with altered motility. This leads to urgency, pain, bloating and bowel changes.
Long term relief is achieved by restoring gut brain communication. The Gut Brain Connection Method® is a unique approach that is grounded in science and guided by 20 years of experience. This method gently guides your gut brain connection back into balance alleviating symptoms and guides you back to freedom and life without restrictions.
You’re able to go wherever you want, take the tube, hop on a flight. You’re relaxed, it feels so good to be able to trust your gut. You’re free from planning your life around the bathroom. You don’t have to think about what your gut’s got in store anymore. You’re comfortable and mealtimes are easy. Eating out is a pleasure.
Client Reviews
★★★★★
"I now feel free to travel without my IBS stopping me and am excited for my future. Thank you Helen, you’ve really changed my life!" KW
Client Reviews
★★★★★
“Helen has had a hugely positive impact on my life over the last 12 weeks. Having suffered from IBS for a few years it was starting to hold me back from living a happy and fulfilled life. I feel so much better about myself, my IBS symptoms and my future.
Thank you Helen.” VW
So how does it get to be different?
Long term relief comes from going beyond the confines of dietary restrictions. My team and I offer an approach that goes beyond the ordinary.
Is a unique approach that addresses the root cause of IBS symptoms and helps you find relief even when diet and medication have failed. This 12 week programme delivers a comprehensive mind-body approach led by an IBS specialist and team of experienced practitioners.
The system is broken
Approximately 1 in 5 in the UK suffers with IBS yet It’s a sad fact that our fragile healthcare system struggles to provide the support needed for those with IBS to truly thrive. Beyond diagnosis many are left without the knowledge & support they need to effectively manage their symptoms.
I see first hand the impact of living with IBS. It's not just the physical discomfort it causes, there’s an emotional toll too - feeling guilty because simple things like eating out, day trips or holidays with the family are just too difficult. Feeling bad for backing out of plans last minute. There's no doubt that living with IBS can be frustrating and lonely and all too often people are told to simply ‘live with it’ trying to figure it out alone, yet it really shouldn’t be that way.
It leads to frustration and further restriction
Trying to find relief through changing what you eat can be futile. Focusing on food is only managing a symptom of IBS and not resolving the underlying problem. When changing what you eat doesn’t bring relief it means added stress at mealtimes and can lead to food fears and restrictive eating. It’s a fact that Traditional dietary recommendations for IBS are estimated to improve symptoms in only 40% of individuals. (Rej, et al., 2022)
Resolve the root cause of symptoms
I’m Helen Brooks, founder of The Tummy Whisperer, a Multi Award-Winning Clinical Hypnotherapist specialising in the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I hold an Honours Degree in Applied Psychology and have thousands of hours of clinical practice. Day to day I help people just like you find relief from IBS and reclaim their lives. I want you to know: With guidance, the right resources, and a supportive community, IBS does NOT have to be a daily battle.
Access to an amazing online programme with all the resources you need at your fingertips including powerful gut directed hypnotherapy audios.
Weekly live group sessions with Helen, a specialist in IBS treatment supporting you along the way.
Support between sessions in the community space - giving you personalised advice whenever you need it.
Gain access to The Holistic Gut Club for carefully curated live sessions of breath work, mindfulness, gentle yoga and more with our team of warm and welcoming practitioners.
The focus is on making this easy for you - just turn up.
Your symptoms are tracked to ensure your progress - your results matter.
Connect with a supportive community of others on exactly the same path - no more going it alone.
Traditional one to one therapy
- 1 hour stand alone session per week
- No resources between sessions
- Not a specialist in IBS
- Going it alone
- No access to therapist between sessions
- Provides one type of therapy
The Gut Brain Connection Method
✓ 2 hours of sessions per week
✓ 24 hour access to resources in the online portal
✓ Specialist exclusively treating IBS
✓ Part of a supportive community
✓ Ongoing access between sessions
✓ Multi-modality approach
Unlike traditional one-to-one sessions, the programme offers up to 2 dedicated hours each week, exclusively led by an IBS specialist and team of experienced practitioners. Go beyond the ordinary—Access resources, join a supportive community, and embrace a transformative journey that makes your path to IBS relief both enjoyable and effective.
“I want to say a massive thank you for helping me with my IBS. I’ve been on the verge of giving up on it many times before, and just accepting the status quo and living with the pain and inconvenience. I’m really glad I didn’t. I’m feeling better than I’ve felt in years” - Jonny
Join now for a one time payment of £1295 | 3 monthly payments of £432
The Fee for the 12 week programme is £1295 and can be paid in either one payment or 3 monthly instalments of £432
The programme is always running and I can accept new clients whenever there is space to join. What is lovely about this format is getting to see people's progress who are further along in the programme. You get to see what is possible.
You will never be asked to share anything that would make you feel uncomfortable. The weekly sessions with me are structured, there’s a different focus each week. One week I may be teaching eg. how the autonomic nervous system influences your gut and then opening out to questions, another week we may be celebrating the positive changes you are noticing, in another session we may be discussing how to manage difficult situations.
Having delivered 17 years of one-to-one therapy before moving to this format—I can verify these sessions are more impactful, with more opportunity for learning and peer support. The programme is a more immersive and comprehensive approach compared to traditional one-to-one sessions. People always comment at how valuable this part of the programme is and how great being part of the group is. You still get personalised support via the online portal where you can always ask me questions in the community space throughout the week or privately if there are things you don’t want to share.
You get lots of opportunity both within the weekly sessions and between sessions in the community space to ask Helen questions and receive advice and support. You can request additional support from Helen whenever you need it by reaching out through the online portal to get a personal response.
All sessions are online via Zoom so you can access specialist support wherever you are and from the comfort of your own home without the stress of travelling to appointments.
Sessions with Helen are on Wednesday at 4pm and 7.30pm GMT. You can choose whichever time suits you best. The rest of the team’s sessions are Tuesday at 7.30pm GMT.
All sessions are recorded and you can access the replays in your client portal. It’s common for people to skip a session or two so no need to worry.
The programme is 12 weeks and there is the option for further support beyond this for those who would like to continue.
Each day you will be advised to listen to your gut directed hypnotherapy audios and do a few minutes of breath work. There are 2 hours of live sessions per week. If you choose to join them. However you can tailor the programme to you. Some people commit to one hour a week and that is enough, some people watch the live sessions on replay
I work with lots of people who have tried apps unsuccessfully. This programme is much more in depth, more comprehensive and there is much more support. It's like trying to compare doing an exercise video with having a personal trainer. It's just not the same. In this programme you will benefit from my guidance and expertise.
Creating long term relief from symptoms isn’t as simple as doing meditation and yoga, although these are helpful practices they often don’t bring relief per se. You may have safety behaviours that need to be addressed through Cognitive behavioural therapy strategies I can draw upon. You also need to resolve the gut brain miscommunication and need the addition of gut directed hypnotherapy to restore the gut brain messaging. The Gut Brain Connection Method has been designed to give you everything you need for change.
It would be unethical to, since no one can guarantee results. However, I do offer a 14 day money back guarantee. This means that at any point between enrolment up until day 14 you decide that the programme is not for you. You can ask for a refund, no questions asked, no hard feelings. Please note I would not expect you to see changes to your symptoms until after this point. This is not to see ‘if it works’ but rather that you feel good about the experience so far.
No not at all, one of the best things about this programme is it is a non dietary approach so there is zero focus on food. As you go through the programme gut sensitivity will decrease and you will be able to tolerate a wider array of foods.
Yes absolutely, the reviews shared here are all clients own words.
Plus, research supports gut directed hypnotherapy as an effective treatment for IBS. Clinical trials show between 80-95% of those who complete a course of gut directed hypnotherapy benefit from a dramatic reduction in all IBS symptoms. (Whorwell PJ; Prior A; Faragher EB. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of severe refractory irritable-bowel syndrome.The Lancet 1984)
Further research has shown these results are long term, patients were followed for 5 years and symptom relief remained consistent. (Gonsalkorale WM, Miller V, Afzal A, Whorwell PJ. Long term benefits of hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome. Gut. 2003)
A study by Monash University found a course of hypnotherapy to be as effective as The Low Fodmap diet.(S.LPeters et al 2016)
Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy has been shown to perform better than IBS medication without any of the related side effects. In addition, IBS hypnotherapy has been shown to improve other IBS-related symptoms, such as fatigue, insomnia and anxiety.
Hypnotherapy is only one component of the programme, I also draw upon cognitive behavioural therapy and many other modalities for a comprehensive approach.
Hypnotherapy is very safe. It is approved by the British Medical Association. There are no side effects and it cannot make your IBS worse. However it is important to ensure you see a fully qualified Hypnotherapist who is a member of a professional body like the General Hypnotherapy Register and who has specific experience in how to treat IBS through gut directed hypnotherapy. I have been a member of The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council for 20 years and have been awarded The Senior Qualification of Hypnotherapy Practice.
Yes, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence recommends hypnotherapy for people with IBS who do not respond to pharmacological treatments after 12 months.
