Hypnosis consultations for living better with Pain
Living with pain that lasts is much more than the pain itself: it is sleep getting worse, dreading the next episode, activities dropped one by one, morale wearing thin.
Our hypnotherapists work with people across Quebec and online who are under medical follow-up for lasting pain, with one clear and honest goal: improving your day-to-day comfort and quality of life, alongside your medical follow-up, never in its place.
Your doctor first, always
Pain is a signal, and a signal gets examined: our support is for people whose pain has been assessed by a doctor and who are being followed for its cause.
If that has not happened yet, it is the first step: see your family doctor or, failing that, the Guichet d'accès à la première ligne.
We will ask you about it at the very first contact: it is a mark of seriousness, not a formality. And if your pain changes, increases or comes with new signs while we are working together, the reflex stays the same: your doctor first.
How Hypnosis can help modulate the perception of pain
What we work on: the experience of pain, not its medical cause
The science shows it: pain is constructed in the brain, which integrates the body's signal but also attention, emotion and tension.
Your pain is entirely real, and that is precisely what makes the experience of it partly modulable. Pain that lasts almost always installs the same gearing: it generates stress and apprehension, stress tightens the muscles and puts the nervous system on alert, tension amplifies the perception, sleep deteriorates and lowers the tolerance threshold further still.
Our therapeutic hypnosis support works on every link in that circle: deep relaxation, learned and then anchored so it is available at will; settling the apprehension of difficult episodes; restoring sleep; and supporting morale, because discouragement amplifies the experience of pain. Without ever touching the medical cause, which remains your care team's business, what often changes is your whole relationship with the pain.
For a detailed account of how hypnosis modulates the perception of pain and what brain imaging shows, including the work carried out at Université de Montréal, read our full guide on pain management.
Self-hypnosis: becoming self-sufficient day to day
This is the heart of our approach to pain that lasts: most of it happens between sessions, at home.
You learn concrete tools: quick relaxation, techniques for putting some distance between you and the sensations, getting through the harder moments… practised first in session, then on your own.
The aim is a transfer of skill: that you become, day to day, your own resource. Three to six sessions are usually enough to install those tools.
While you wait for a specialist appointment
This is a Quebec reality: waiting times for a pain clinic or for certain specialists are sometimes counted in months. That wait does not have to be dead time or a stretch of discouragement. Working now on your relaxation, your sleep and your relationship with a painful daily life means arriving at that specialist appointment in better shape and better equipped. Alongside the medical pathway, never instead of it: keep every one of your appointments.
What Hypnosis offers in living better with pain
The life situations we support
Alongside medical follow-up, people living with:
- migraines: tools to call on from the first warning signs, settling the apprehension between episodes;
- fibromyalgia: the tension-exhaustion circle, sleep, winning back activities, and having an experience long misunderstood acknowledged;
- back pain that lasts: muscular relaxation, getting comfortable with movement again when the fear of moving has settled in;
- lasting digestive discomfort;
- or going through an illness and its treatments: dreaded tests, sleep, morale, the stress of appointments.
And when it is fear of medical care (the dentist, blood tests…) that delays treatment, we work on that too, see Fears & phobias.
Your medication: one single rule
Never change your medication on your own initiative, neither up nor down, even if you feel a great deal better. If your comfort improves to the point of considering an adjustment, that is excellent news… to bring to your doctor or your pharmacist, who alone decide. This collaboration works very well when everyone stays in their own lane: the treatment is theirs, day-to-day well-being is ours.
What our clients say
« Hello, I really enjoyed my experience with Christian. I admit I was quite skeptical. At the very start of the session, my pain was rated 6-7/10 and by the end, my pain was down to 3/10. I was truly more than satisfied. I even talked about my experience with my psychoneurologist at the Pain Clinic at CHUS in Sherbrooke. Whenever I'm not feeling well, I won't hesitate for a minute to reach out to Christian again. Also, the summary of the methods he sent by email was truly appreciated. Many thanks, Nadia Girouard Victoriaville, Quebec. »
Nadia, client of Christian Rocher
Consult a Hypnotherapist for living better with pain near you
In Office or Online Across Canada
Offices in Montreal, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Montérégie…
And if you live far away or elsewhere in the world, online sessions work very well. Evening slots available.
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Gatineau - Cumberland (ON)
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Christian Rocher
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Montréal - Anjou
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Florence Aton
Sutton
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Sherbrooke
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Réjeanne LeBlanc
La Prairie
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Frequently asked questions about hypnosis and pain
Nobody can promise you that, and be wary of anyone who does. What our support honestly aims at: reducing the place pain takes up in your life, less apprehension, more relaxation, better sleep, activities won back. For many people that change in experience is major, even when the medical cause remains. Your treatment stays your doctor's business.
No, and that is to protect you. Pain has to be assessed medically first: see your family doctor or the Guichet d'accès à la première ligne. Our support is for people already being followed for the cause of their pain; we will gladly step in afterwards, alongside.
Yes, as long as you keep every medical appointment. The wait does not have to be a stretch of discouragement: installing your relaxation tools now, restoring your sleep and settling the apprehension means arriving at that specialist appointment better equipped and in better shape. Alongside the pathway, never in its place.
Your comfort may well improve to the point of raising the question, but the decision belongs exclusively to your doctor or your pharmacist. Never change a medication on your own initiative, even when you feel better: some adjustments need precise supervision. Bring the good news to your care team; they will decide what happens next.
Generally three to six, with a large share devoted to learning self-hypnosis, because most of it happens at home, day to day, between sessions. To prepare for a single dreaded procedure (dental work, a blood test, an examination), one to three sessions are often enough. Self-sufficiency is always the aim: no endless sessions.
It depends on your group plan. Our practitioners issue receipts (counselling, naturotherapy or hypnotherapy depending on their affiliation), but not every insurer accepts them: check your policy before the first session, and say which type of receipt your practitioner issues.
To go further
- Living better with illness — the lived experience of chronic or serious illness.
- Digestive system — functional disorders and inflammatory bowel disease.
- Sleep · Fears & phobias
We are neither doctors, psychologists, nor psychotherapists. Our services are rooted in helping relationships and well-being: they constitute neither treatment nor psychotherapy (a regulated act in Quebec), and they never replace medical or psychological care. Any pain should be assessed by a doctor, and no medication should be changed without the advice of your doctor or pharmacist.
Page written by Christian Rocher
hypnotherapist and NLP coach
partner at Solutions Hypnose.
English version reviewed by David Veilleux
Updated .