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Can Hypnosis Help with Divorce?

  • Writer: Amunet Burgueno
    Amunet Burgueno
  • Jun 6
  • 7 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

Can Hypnosis Help with Divorce?

Does hypnotherapy work for divorce?


Yes, but not in the way most people think. Hypnosis can't stop a divorce that's already in motion or change your spouse's mind about leaving. What it can do is help you navigate the emotional devastation without losing yourself in the process.


Divorce triggers every unconscious wound you have around abandonment, rejection, failure, and loss. These old patterns can make you do things that sabotage your own healing - like obsessing over your ex, making desperate attempts to win them back, or staying stuck in victim mode for years.


Hypnosis helps interrupt these destructive patterns so you can actually heal instead of just surviving.


How to cope with divorce when you don't want it: What Hypnosis Actually Does During Divorce


Stops the Mental Obsession If you can't stop thinking about your ex, replaying conversations, or checking their social media, you're stuck in an unconscious trauma loop. Your mind is trying to solve a problem that can't be solved. Hypnosis can interrupt these obsessive thought patterns at the source.


Heals the Emotional Overwhelm Divorce feels like emotional chaos - rage one minute, despair the next, numbness after that. Hypnosis helps regulate your nervous system so you're not constantly flooding with emotions or shutting down completely.


Processes the Grief You're grieving multiple losses at once - your marriage, your future, your family structure, your financial security. Hypnosis helps you process this grief without getting stuck in it or numbing out from it.


Breaks Destructive Patterns Maybe you keep trying to convince your ex to come back, or you're badmouthing them to anyone who will listen, or you're already jumping into dating to prove you're desirable. Hypnosis helps you recognize and interrupt these patterns before they cause more damage.


How Does Hypnotherapy Help With Divorce When You're Desperately Trying to Save the Marriage


This is where most people get hypnosis wrong. They think it can somehow influence their spouse from a distance or make them fall back in love. That's not how it works.


But hypnosis can help you stop doing the things that push your spouse further away. When you're panicking about divorce, you probably become clingy, argumentative, or desperate.


These behaviors trigger your spouse's need to get away from you even faster.


Hypnosis can help you:


  • Stop the desperate energy that repels people

  • Process your panic without acting on it

  • Show up as the person your spouse originally fell in love with

  • Make clear decisions about whether the marriage is actually worth saving


Sometimes when you stop the desperate behavior, your spouse notices the person they married is still in there. Sometimes they don't. But at least you're not making things worse with panic-driven actions.


Programs like The 90-Day Marriage Miracle™ work specifically on healing these unconscious patterns that push people away, whether you're trying to save your marriage or heal from its ending.


When the Divorce Is Already Decided


Once divorce papers are filed or your spouse has completely checked out, hypnosis shifts to helping you navigate the process without destroying yourself emotionally.


Managing the Legal Stress Divorce proceedings are designed to be adversarial and stressful. Hypnosis can help you stay centered during depositions, mediation, and court appearances instead of being triggered into fight-or-flight mode.


Dealing with Your Ex You'll probably have to interact with your ex for months or years, especially if you have kids. Hypnosis can help you show up calmly instead of being reactive, which serves your interests better anyway.


Processing the Rejection Being left by your spouse hits every unconscious wound you have around not being good enough, lovable enough, or worth staying for. These aren't rational thoughts - they're unconscious beliefs that get triggered by the divorce. Hypnosis can help heal these beliefs so they don't run your life going forward.


Preparing for Co-Parenting If you have children, you'll be dealing with your ex for years. Hypnosis can help you separate your feelings about the marriage ending from your ability to co-parent effectively.


What Hypnosis Can't Do


Let's be clear about what hypnosis cannot do during divorce:


  • Make your spouse change their mind about divorcing you

  • Erase the pain of losing your marriage

  • Solve your financial or custody problems

  • Make you immediately okay with everything that's happening

  • Replace the need for good legal advice

  • Fix a marriage where both people aren't committed to change


Hypnosis is a tool for emotional healing and creating healthy patterns.


The Unconscious Patterns That Make Divorce Worse


Most people going through divorce get stuck in unconscious patterns that make everything harder:


The Bargaining Pattern You keep thinking if you just change this one thing or wait long enough, they'll come back. This pattern keeps you from accepting reality and moving forward.


The Disempowered Pattern You get stuck because you were wronged, and you hyper-focus on how unfair everything is. While you might have been wronged, staying in a disempowered mode keeps you powerless.


The Revenge Pattern You want to make your ex pay for what they've done, so you focus your energy on being vindictive instead of healing. This usually backfires and makes everything worse.


The Replacement Pattern You immediately start dating to prove you're desirable or to make your ex jealous. This prevents you from processing the loss and usually leads to rebound relationships that repeat the same patterns.


Hypnosis can help identify and interrupt these patterns before they sabotage your healing process.


Healing the Root Wounds


Divorce doesn't just end a marriage - it triggers every unconscious wound you've ever had around love, safety, and worthiness. These wounds usually started long before you met your spouse, often in childhood or previous relationships.


Maybe you learned that love isn't safe because people always leave. Or that you have to be perfect to be lovable. Or that you're not worth fighting for. Divorce can make these unconscious beliefs feel absolutely true.


Hypnosis can help you access and heal these root wounds, so divorce becomes a painful experience you grow from instead of evidence that confirms your worst fears about yourself.


When to Use Hypnosis When You're On the Brink Of Divorce


Before You Make Any Big Decisions If you're thinking about divorce but aren't sure, hypnosis can help you get clear about what you actually want versus what you think you should want.


When You're Triggered Constantly If you can't have a conversation with your spouse without exploding or shutting down, hypnosis can help regulate your nervous system.


If You Can't Stop Obsessing When you can't stop thinking about your ex or what they're doing, you need help breaking the mental loop.


Before Important Conversations Use hypnosis to prepare for difficult conversations with your spouse so you can show up centered instead of reactive.


When You're Ready to Heal Once you've accepted that divorce is happening, hypnosis can help you process the experience and heal the patterns that contributed to the marriage failing.


The Long-Term Benefits


The unconscious patterns that contributed to your marriage failing don't just disappear when you get divorced. If you don't heal them, you'll likely repeat them in future relationships.


Hypnosis during and after divorce can help you:


  • Understand what patterns attracted you to the wrong person

  • Heal the wounds that made you tolerate unacceptable behavior

  • Develop better boundaries and relationship skills

  • Trust yourself to make better choices going forward

  • Be open to love again when you're ready


Finding the Right Approach


Not all hypnosis is the same. For divorce-related issues, you want someone who:


  • Understands trauma and how it affects relationships

  • Works with unconscious patterns, not just relaxation techniques

  • Has experience with relationship and divorce issues

  • Uses regression techniques to access root causes

  • Focuses on healing rather than just coping


The Bottom Line


Can hypnosis help with divorce? Yes, but it's not about changing external circumstances - it's about changing your internal response to those circumstances.


Hypnosis can't save a marriage where both people aren't committed to change, but it can help you navigate divorce without losing yourself in the process. It can help you save your marriage when you're on the brink of divorce. It can help you heal the unconscious patterns that contributed to the marriage failing so you don't repeat them.


Most importantly, hypnosis can help you use this painful experience as a catalyst for healing old wounds instead of evidence that love isn't safe or that you're not worth staying for.


Divorce is going to hurt regardless. The question is whether you let it break you or use it to become someone who's capable of healthier love in the future.


Your Next Step: Your Private Marriage Rescue Strategy Call


Right now, you're probably feeling overwhelmed, scared, and maybe even hopeless about whether your marriage can actually be saved. You're wondering if you're just delaying the inevitable or if there's still a real path forward.


I want to offer you something that could change everything: a completely confidential 45-minute Marriage Rescue Strategy Call where we'll get honest about your situation and explore what's actually possible.


Here's what we'll discover together:


What's Really Happening in Your Marriage - We'll uncover what's driving the patterns beneath the surface arguments. Often, couples are reacting to completely different things than what they think they're fighting about.


The Real Stakes - We'll look at what staying in crisis actually costs you - financially, emotionally, and personally - so you can make decisions with complete clarity about what you're working to save.


What Healing Could Look Like for You - Based on your unique situation and what you've been through, we'll explore what transformation might look like and feel like in your specific marriage.


Your Honest Options - I'll share what I genuinely see as possible for your situation, what it might require, and help you understand if this approach feels right for you.


Your Next Steps - Whether we work together in The 90-Day Marriage Miracle™ Program or not, you'll have clarity on your path forward instead of feeling stuck and confused.


I'll ask questions about what's been happening, what you've already tried, and what you're open to exploring. We'll talk honestly about what change requires. If you'd like, we can explore whether my program might be helpful, but there's no pressure to move forward with anything.


This conversation might resonate if:


  • You're feeling lost about whether your marriage can survive this

  • You're wondering if the problem is fixable or if you're just incompatible

  • You're curious about approaches that go deeper than communication techniques

  • You're open to the possibility that healing yourself could change everything


This probably isn't the right fit if:


  • You've already decided on divorce and are just going through the motions

  • You're dealing with abuse or safety concerns, which require a different program and approach


My main objective is simple: help you avoid losing the love of your life and everything you've built together.



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