Lisa Rice-Rickman
Gut Health Hypnotherapy Specialist
Clinical Hypnotherapist | NLP Practitioner | Registered Nurse | BSc (Hons) Health Psychology | OHN Dip | Energy Medicine
If your gut has been running your life, it’s time to change the conversation.
You’ve had the tests. You’ve tried the diets. You’ve been told everything looks normal — and yet the bloating, the pain, the urgency, the unpredictability continues. You’ve quietly reorganised your life around your symptoms, and somewhere along the way, you stopped trusting your own body. That ends here with a new approach.
A Specialist Hypnotherapist in the Science of Gut-Brain Healing
Lisa Rice-Rickman is a Registered Nurse with over two decades of clinical experience and a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist specialising in gut health. Her gut health hypnotherapy programme is grounded in the Manchester Protocol research — the most rigorously researched gut-directed hypnotherapy framework in existence, developed by Professor Peter Whorwell at the University of Manchester — and has been further developed and refined through her own clinical practice and integrative training. Randomised controlled trials consistently show a 70–80% improvement rate in IBS patients who had not responded to conventional medical treatment — outcomes that rival, and often outlast, pharmaceutical intervention.
This is not alternative medicine. This is the frontier of evidence-based integrative care.
Why Your Gut Isn’t the Problem — It’s the Messenger
Most chronic gut symptoms — IBS, functional abdominal pain, bloating, dyspepsia, visceral hypersensitivity, gut symptoms driven by anxiety and stress — are not random. They’re patterns. The gut-brain axis, the extraordinary two-way communication network between your digestive system and your nervous system, has become dysregulated. Your gut is hypersensitive, your nervous system is braced, and no amount of dietary restriction or medication addresses wha't’s actually happening beneath the surface.
Lisa’s work goes there.
Using her clinically developed gut health hypnotherapy programme alongside NLP, Timeline Therapy, Heart Coherence, and Energy Medicine, Lisa works directly at the level of the nervous system and subconscious mind — where your gut’s real instructions are written.
Rather than suppressing symptoms, this approach recalibrates the gut-brain axis, reduces visceral hypersensitivity, regulates motility, and quiets the nervous system dysregulation that underlies chronic digestive distress.
This isn’t about willpower. It isn’t about positive thinking. It’s about precision — finding the programme that’s been running in the background and updating it.
What This Approach Treats
Lisa works with adults experiencing:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome — IBS-D, IBS-C, and IBS-M
Functional abdominal pain
Functional dyspepsia
Bloating and visceral hypersensitivity
Gut symptoms secondary to anxiety, stress, and trauma
Gut symptoms in inflammatory bowel disease (adjunctive support)
What to Expect
Lisa’s gut health hypnotherapy program is delivered across seven sessions over approximately twelve weeks, each building on the last to deepen the therapeutic response.
Every client receives a personalised home practice recording — extending the healing work beyond the clinic and into the rhythms of daily life. The cumulative effect is where the transformation happens.
But the changes clients notice extend well beyond their gut. Clearer thinking. More energy. Better sleep. A nervous system no longer burning fuel on invisible resistance. A body that feels lighter, more cooperative, more like home. Research on neuroplasticity, chronic stress reduction, and cellular ageing confirms what clients experience firsthand: when the subconscious patterns shift, the whole system responds.
Most of all, they feel like themselves again — not managed, not medicated. Themselves.
Intro to Lisa Rice-Rickman
The Good Gut Program (zoom or in person)
This comprehensive 7 session program takes place over 12 weeks and includes a hypnosis recording to listen to in between sessions.
$1,995
Please speak to reception to book.
Individual Sessions (zoom or in person):
Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) help make changes easier than ever before. Reprogram your mind and activate mind body healing. Improve sleep, gut health, mental health and much more.
First session: 90 mins $264 + optional personal hypnosis recording.
Follow-up sessions: Up to 75 mins $195
Private Health Rebates may apply. You can book an intensive 3 hours with Lisa which works really well especially if you have to travel to see her. Please book that with reception directly. Please note there is a cancellation fee of 50% of the appointment fee for any cancellation made within 24 hours of the booked appointment time.
Book online now (select Initial Consult)
Standalone recordings you can purchase:
Gut Health kickstart hypnotherapy program
The subconscious mind has a substantial influence on digestion and elimination and can affect the functioning of the digestive system through its connection to the body’s stress response. It can also influence eating habits, food choices, exercise and relaxation which can have a direct impact on digestion and elimination. This recording enhances the gut-brain connection, and also connects you to true mind body healing, tapping into the innate intelligence of your energy centres, promoting a healthy flow of energy throughout your body and mind, the focal point for health and wellness. In published studies gut focused hypnotherapy works as well if not better than a low fodmap diet. Gut-directed hypnotherapy improves gastrointestinal symptoms in people with IBS by 70-80% and these improvements are maintained in the long-term [STUDY]
Raise your Energy hypnotherapy program
A command cell therapy meditation and the power of visualisation lets you change the energy in and around you. This recording guides you through the areas of the body that needs special love, attention and healing. Where focus goes, energy flows. Where energy flows self healing can begin, and reduction in suffering occurs. This is fantastic for chronic pain, and dealing with any physical illness you may be suffering. It taps into mind body healing in ways you’ve never experienced before.
Integrated, Collaborative Care
Lisa consults at Evergreen Doctors Functional Medicine, Sydney, working alongside GPs and specialists to ensure her clients receive genuinely integrated support. She accepts GP and specialist referrals and works within a whole-person framework that honours both the science and the deeper intelligence of the body.
Always continue to work with your doctor and follow their medical advice