1. Tell us about your center
On a short call, you share your population, caseload, and scheduling needs.
For Behavioral Health & Wellness Centers
We Match You to a Vetted Hypnotherapist for On Demand Appointments
Offer hypnotherapy at intake at no cost to your center. You pay only for the sessions you schedule and use. We match you with a hypnotherapist vetted for your population, available on demand. No staffing, no onboarding, no contracts, no added fee for your clients.
How it works
A vetted hypnotherapist, matched to your center for on demand appointments
2. We match you
We review credentials and experience, then match you with a vetted hypnotherapist suited to your center.
3. Request appointments on demand
Your staff calls or logs in whenever a client needs support, and your matched hypnotherapist joins the session live. No staffing, no contracts. Pay only for the appointments you use.
What it costs you
Nothing, until a session happens
You can put hypnotherapy in front of a client at intake before it costs your center anything. Billing starts only when a session you scheduled is actually used.
$0to add it
Hypnotherapy goes into your program description and your admissions conversation from day one. No setup fee, no retainer, no minimum volume.
No contract required
$0until it’s used
You are billed per session your staff schedules and your client attends. Nothing scheduled, nothing owed.
Billed per session used
$0to the client
The cost sits with the center, not the family. It does not change what you quote at intake.
No added client fee
Why it helps at intake
Admissions can name hypnotherapy as part of the program on the first call — an evidence-backed modality, with the research set out below — without carrying it as a cost until a client uses it.
Clinical evidence
What the research shows about hypnotherapy in treatment settings
Hypnotherapy is an adjunct to established care, not a substitute for it. The strongest findings sit exactly where early treatment is hardest — pain, anxiety, and sleep. This is what the peer‑reviewed literature reports, in plain numbers.
65out of 100
For acute pain, a patient given hypnosis did better than a comparable patient given standard care alone roughly 65 times out of 100.
12 randomized trials, 2025 review
10–15minutes
Additional deep sleep per night after a pre‑sleep hypnosis recording, in controlled studies of younger and older adults.
Controlled sleep research
80out of 100
Across eight trials covering pain, depression, grief, IBS, eating behavior and other behavioral outcomes, hypnotherapy beat minimal or no treatment about 80 times out of 100.
8 randomized trials · 676 participants
How to read this
Researchers report results in statistical units that don’t mean much outside a journal. We’ve translated them into a single plain question: if you picked one patient who got hypnotherapy and one who didn’t, how often would the hypnotherapy patient do better? 50 out of 100 means the two groups did equally well. Every original statistic is in the references below, unchanged, for anyone who wants to check our arithmetic.
By outcome domain
Where the findings are strongest
Evidence quality varies considerably depending on what is being measured. Rather than average it into a single claim, here is each domain on its own terms.
Acute pain relief
●●● Strong
Better pain relief 65 times out of 100.
A 2025 review pooled 12 randomized controlled trials published between 2014 and 2024. Patients given medical hypnosis reported less acute pain than patients given standard care alone.
The benefit is specific to acute pain. For chronic pain the same review found 52 out of 100, meaning no meaningful difference. Hypnotherapy is an acute‑phase tool, and we describe it as one.
Why it matters early in treatment. Discomfort in the first days is what sends people home early. A non-invasive option with randomized support is a rare thing to be able to add to a comfort protocol.
Ref. 1 — The Use of Medical Hypnosis to Prevent and Treat Acute and Chronic Pain
Depression, anxiety & behavioral outcomes
●●○ Moderate
Better than no added treatment about 72 times out of 100 for anxiety and depression. On par with CBT.
A 2026 review pooled eight randomized trials covering 676 people, across procedural pain, major depression, prolonged grief, IBS, disordered eating and other behavioral outcomes. Compared with minimal or no added treatment, hypnotherapy came out ahead roughly 80 times out of 100 overall — about 72 out of 100 for depression and anxiety specifically, and about 81 out of 100 for behavioral outcomes.
Put head‑to‑head against cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, hypnotherapy performed on par with both. It matches modalities your clinicians already trust, and it can be booked one appointment at a time.
A separate 2019 review reached the same conclusion for anxiety on its own, and found results improved further when hypnosis was combined with other psychological treatment rather than used alone.
Why it matters. Anxiety in the first 72 hours is a common precursor to leaving against medical advice. Performance comparable to CBT, without adding a line to your staffing plan, is the practical argument.
Refs. 2, 3 — Ericksonian Hypnotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs; The Efficacy of Hypnosis as a Treatment for Anxiety
Sleep & insomnia
●●○ Moderate
10 to 15 extra minutes of deep sleep a night.
Controlled studies found that listening to a hypnosis recording before bed increased slow‑wave sleep — the deep, restorative stage — by roughly 10 to 15 minutes, in both younger and older adults. A separate randomized trial of a five‑week self‑administered hypnosis program improved sleep quality and total sleep time, and reduced daytime sleepiness.
Two qualifiers worth knowing before you commission it. The sleep effect is concentrated among people who respond well to hypnosis in the first place, so expect it to help some clients more than others. And the content matters: recordings that used pleasant imagery without specific sleep suggestions did nothing. Generic relaxation audio is not the same intervention.
Why it matters. Poor sleep in the first weeks of treatment makes everything else harder, and most programs have no dedicated response to it.
Trauma symptoms
●○○ Emerging
Two independent reviews, both finding symptom reduction.
Two 2016 reviews — one in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, one in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis — each pooled the available trials of hypnotherapeutic techniques for PTSD symptoms, and both concluded symptoms were reduced.
Given how often trauma accompanies the conditions centers treat, this matters. It is also the domain where scope of practice matters most. We match trauma‑informed practitioners only where a center’s primary clinician is directing the treatment plan and coordination of care is explicit.
How we handle it. Trauma work is coordinated, never freelanced. Your clinical lead sets the scope; the practitioner works inside it.
Refs. 5, 6 — A Meta-Analysis of Hypnotherapeutic Techniques in the Treatment of PTSD Symptoms; A Meta-Analysis for the Efficacy of Hypnotherapy in Alleviating PTSD Symptoms
Getting the most from it
How centers see the strongest results
The research is consistent about the conditions under which hypnotherapy performs best. Three of them are worth designing around.
Alongside your program, not instead of it
A 2019 review found that results improved further when hypnosis was combined with other psychological treatment rather than delivered on its own. It is built to sit inside an existing clinical model, which is also how we match practitioners — under your clinical lead’s direction.
Repeated sessions, not a single visit
The published protocols with the clearest results run across multiple sessions. The sleep improvements described above came from a five‑week program, not one appointment. On‑demand booking is designed for exactly this — a client can be seen again the next day, without anything being scheduled in advance.
Timed to the acute phase
A 20‑year overview of 49 meta‑analyses covering 261 primary studies found the largest effects in patients experiencing pain and patients undergoing medical procedures. Across that body of work, more than half of the reported effects were medium or large. The first days of treatment are where the evidence is strongest.
References & original statistics
- The Use of Medical Hypnosis to Prevent and Treat Acute and Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis. 12 RCTs. Acute pain SMD 0.54 (95% CI 0.19–0.90; p = 0.0024); chronic pain Hedges’ g 0.07 (p = 0.518). PubMed 40649035
- Ericksonian Hypnotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. 8 RCTs, N = 676. Pooled SMD 1.17 (95% CI 0.70–1.64) versus minimal or no treatment; pain −0.94, depression and anxiety −0.82, behavioral outcomes −1.23; effect near zero versus CBT and motivational interviewing. MDPI
- Valentine KE, Milling LS, et al. The Efficacy of Hypnosis as a Treatment for Anxiety: A Meta‑Analysis. Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 2019. Taylor & Francis
- Rasch B. Effects of hypnosis on sleep and insomnia symptoms. Slow‑wave sleep increased by approximately 10–15 minutes; effects concentrated among medium‑to‑high hypnotizable participants. International Society for Hypnosis
- A Meta‑Analysis of Hypnotherapeutic Techniques in the Treatment of PTSD Symptoms. J Trauma Stress, 2016. PubMed 26855228
- A Meta‑Analysis for the Efficacy of Hypnotherapy in Alleviating PTSD Symptoms. Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 2016. PubMed 26599995
- Meta‑analytic evidence on the efficacy of hypnosis for mental and somatic health issues: a 20‑year perspective. 49 meta‑analyses, 261 primary studies; effect sizes d = −0.04 to 2.72, with 25.4% medium and 28.8% large. Frontiers in Psychology, 2023.
The “out of 100” figures on this page are a standard plain‑language conversion of the effect sizes published in the studies cited, expressing how often a treated participant would be expected to fare better than an untreated one. They are not response rates, remission rates, or percentage reductions in symptoms. The original published statistics appear unchanged in the reference list above. Hypnotherapy is an adjunct to medical and clinical care, not a replacement for it. Nothing on this page is a representation about outcomes at any individual program, and no practitioner in the Sybilry network provides medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment of any condition independent of a center’s clinical direction. Sybilry works only with licensed facilities. We do not accept patient inquiries or refer individuals to treatment.
Frequently asked questions
Does this cost extra for our clients?
No. Sybilry is billed to your center, not passed on as a charge to your client, and there is no new hire on your end. You request hypnotherapist support on demand, appointment by appointment.
Who are the hypnotherapists?
Every hypnotherapist in our network is independently credentialed and vetted. We review credentials, experience with behavioral health and co-occurring populations, and references before matching them to your center.
How does the matching process work?
It starts with a short call about your center's population and caseload. From there, we match you with a vetted hypnotherapist for on demand appointments, so your team isn't left to coordinate scheduling on their own.
How do we get started?
Request a call below. It's a 15-minute conversation about your center's needs. If it's a fit, we make the match, and you can start booking on demand appointments with your next eligible client.