Hypnotherapy for Lovesickness

Think of them without the pull.

You don't want to understand why it's over — you want it to stop hurting. In trance, we don't work on the breakup itself, but on what it triggered in you.

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Jan Mion

Hypnotherapist EZC

Hypnotherapy for lovesickness doesn't erase memories and doesn't make you forget anyone. It takes the emotional charge out of the memories, so you can think of that person without it knocking you off balance. It's usually two to five sessions. I work online across Switzerland; a session runs about 60 minutes and costs CHF 200.

2–5 Sessions typically
60 min per session
Letting go not forgetting
Online across Switzerland

How it works

How hypnotherapy addresses lovesickness

Your unconscious hasn't caught up with the fact that the relationship is over. Over months or years, it learned that this person is part of your life. When they disappear, it doesn't register sadness — it registers alarm: something essential is missing, and it has to come back. Everything that follows flows from that one assessment — the looping thoughts, the missing them, the longing, the search for the moment where you could have saved it.

That's why "you'll get over it" does so little. The sentence is true, and it doesn't reach the place where it hurts. The unconscious doesn't speak in arguments — it speaks in images and feelings. You can list ten reasons why it was the right call, and still lie awake at two in the morning.

In trance, we speak to it in its own language. We work with the images that still pull at you, the idealising that turns an ordinary person into the only possible one, and the alarm itself. Nothing gets erased. It gets discharged — and what was once learned can be unlearned again.

Your unconscious isn't grieving. It's searching — and searching doesn't stop on its own.

In detail

Why "just a breakup" takes up so much space

"It's just a breakup." That's the sentence people say about themselves before I've even asked anything. Usually with a half-laugh meant to excuse why they're sitting here. Nobody would think to apologise for back pain.

Why "just a breakup" takes up so much space

From a hypnotic point of view, lovesickness isn't a feeling — it's an alarm. Over months or years, your unconscious learned that this person is part of your life. When they disappear, it doesn't register "too bad" — it registers "something essential is missing, get it back."

And then it does exactly what it's built to do. It shows you their face while you're in the middle of something completely different. It sets you overthinking, replaying every conversation for the one moment where you could have saved it. It blanks out what was hard and leaves the good weeks standing. That isn't weakness, and it isn't a flaw. It's a search that nobody switched off.

Your body joins in: no appetite, sleep that doesn't hold, a band around your chest that gave the whole thing its name. To your system, this isn't lovesickness — it's an emergency. And emergencies aren't built to last for months.

The question most people arrive with

"Can you make me forget them?"

The short answer is no. The long one is: you don't actually want that. Erasing memories would mean cutting a piece out of your own life — you'd feel the hole without knowing where it came from.

What we do instead: we take the charge out of the memory. Same scene, same image — it just doesn't pull anymore. You come to think of it the way you'd think of a flat you used to live in. It was good. It's over. No grip on your throat.

What's often underneath

For some people, the breakup is the whole story. For many, it's just the place where something cracked open. Then it's less about this person and more about the fear of being alone, or a self-image that left along with them: if they didn't want me, there must have been something wrong with me.

And if the sentence "I'm not whole without this person" is older than the relationship, then we're not working on the breakup — we're working on the emotional dependence underneath it. That usually only shows up in the second session.

What we work on, in order

First the pressure, because it eases fastest. Then the idealising, so the only possible person becomes a person again. And last, what comes after them: a picture of the future with no one in it you have to convince, and a self-respect that doesn't depend on whether someone currently wants you.

What you learned, you can unlearn — a search pattern like anything else your unconscious has ever practised.

Grief needs time. It just doesn't need as much time as it's currently taking.

Hypnotherapy for lovesickness with hypnotherapist Jan Mion — In focus
The question isn't how to forget them. It's why your system is still searching for them.

The change

What it's like when the name is just a name again

Not indifference — that would be a bad trade. Just a day when you stop keeping score of who reaches out first.

Their name on your screen, without your pulse spiking
Conversations that stop replaying themselves at night
Looking at memories instead of pushing them away
Appetite back, sleep back, an ordinary Sunday again
A picture of the future that doesn't need to include this person

Who it's for

Who is this suited for?

Most people who come to me for this have waited a long time. Not because it got better, but because they didn't think this was reason enough to call someone.

The breakup was months ago, you're functioning again — and nothing has moved inside.
You replay every conversation, searching for the moment you could have saved it.
You know full well the relationship wasn't good for you, and you miss it anyway.
You think it's ridiculous that a breakup can throw you this far off balance.

If you're hoping this brings your ex back: hypnosis has no influence on that. And if you only want the feeling gone so you can reach out again right away, we'd be working against each other — better to wait.

In a session

What happens in a session

No questionnaire, no stage theory, no off-the-shelf programme.

Two to five sessions is the usual frame. Booked one at a time — you decide fresh after each one.

01
What's still open today
I don't ask what the relationship was like, but what's happening today: when it hits you hardest, which thought comes first, and what you do when it does. And whether there's still contact — that changes the work considerably.
02
The way inward
You lean back, and I guide you into a calm, focused state. You stay awake the whole time. For many people, it's the first hour in weeks where their head isn't working overtime.
03
Getting at the charge
We work with the images that still pull at you: the one scene that keeps coming back, the idealising that blanks out everything that was hard, and the alarm that fires every time. The memory stays. What changes is what it does to you.
04
Surfacing and making sense of it
You come back at your own pace, and we look at what surfaced. Often it isn't the breakup itself that needed the most room.

Online or in person

Hypnotherapy for Lovesickness & Breakup — online or in the practice

With this topic, the last thing you usually want is to be around people. Which is exactly the case for working from home.

Online by video

A quiet room, laptop or phone, headphones. You don't have to cross town with red eyes and then sit on the tram while everything inside is still wide open. I work this way across Switzerland.

More about online hypnotherapy

In person in Zurich

Two practices, Zurich Enge and Zurich Hottingen, both a few minutes from the station. If your flat is currently full of this relationship — the mug, the sofa, the side of the bed — a room with none of it in it can be exactly right.

Serious hypnosis

Serious hypnotherapy for lovesickness

What people hear about hypnosis for this — and what actually happens.

What you hear

Hypnosis erases the memory of your ex.

Serious therapy

No, and it wouldn't be a good idea either. Making a few years of your life disappear doesn't make you freer. We take the charge out of the memories, not the content.

What you hear

Hypnosis can get them to come back.

Serious therapy

Hypnosis works on the person sitting in the session. It has zero effect on someone who isn't in the room.

What you hear

You have to relive the whole relationship in trance.

Serious therapy

You don't. I don't need a record of four years, just the handful of moments that still pull at you today. And we approach those with some distance, not from the middle of it.

What you hear

One session, and the heartbreak is gone.

Serious therapy

Would be nice, but it isn't true. What often eases after the first session is the pressure to finally be over it. The rest gets quieter week by week, not all at once.

Will it work for me?

Yes — the only question is how much time it needs

For almost everyone, whether it works is the smaller question. The bigger one is the pace — and that depends more on you than on the breakup. Two people with the same story need different amounts of time, and that says nothing about their strength.

What speeds things up: when it's genuinely over and you want that too. What needs more time: when this person is just the latest in a line, and the feeling of not being whole without someone is older than they are.

Usually quick

2–3 sessions

A good relationship has ended, and you want to go through the grief, not around it.

It's clearly over, and you've accepted that
There's no contact left
Outside of this, your life still holds

The most common case

3–4 sessions

It's been months, everyday life is running again, and inside everything has stopped.

At night you replay the conversations
There's still contact, or you check their profile regularly
Rationally you know it all, and feel none of it

When more is tied to it

5 or more

The loss has opened something older than this relationship.

Being left behind isn't new — you know it from before them
Without a partner you don't feel whole, full stop
The relationship was bad, and you miss it anyway

My honest promise: If I get the impression after the first session that you need time more than hypnosis right now, I'll tell you — even if that means we stop here.

Your therapist

About Jan Mion

I'm a hypnotherapist and have been self-employed since 2015. With this topic, almost the same wish shows up every time, usually within the first few minutes: 'Make me stop feeling anything for them.' My answer has been the same for years — I won't do that, and you don't actually want me to.

Hypnotherapist EZC
1500+ hours of training
5000+ individual sessions
In private practice since 2015

I don't take anyone's love away. I take its grip off their throat.

Investment

Simple, fair pricing

CHF 200 for about 60 minutes. No packages, no commitment, no minimum number.

Hypnotherapy session

CHF 200

per session, approx. 60 minutes

There's no free introductory call with me. The first session is already the work — after that, you decide whether a second one follows.

Good to know

Common questions about hypnotherapy for lovesickness

Can hypnosis help with lovesickness?

Yes — not by undoing the breakup, but by working on what holds the pain in place: the images that keep coming back, the search for your own mistake, and the idealising. What's left is the memory without the grip.

What helps right away against lovesickness?

The pain itself rarely changes right away. What eases first is the pressure to finally be over it — and once that's gone, the grief has room to move and runs its course on its own.

When is the worst phase of lovesickness?

In my experience, not the first week. It's usually hardest once everyday life is back, everyone else has moved on, and nobody's asking anymore. That's exactly when most people first reach out to me.

Can hypnosis make me forget my ex?

No, and I wouldn't do it even if I could. Cutting out memories leaves a hole where your life used to be. What's possible is taking away the emotional charge — you can think of them without it knocking you off balance.

Does hypnosis help even if the lovesickness has lasted a long time?

Yes, and that's more the rule than the exception. If something still hurts after years, it's no longer a grieving process that just needs time — it's a pattern that's stuck. That's exactly what can be worked on.

How many sessions does hypnosis for lovesickness take?

Two to five sessions is the usual frame. Where you land depends more on you than on the topic — I've seen both, with the same story. Booked one at a time.

What does hypnosis for lovesickness cost?

CHF 200 per session, about 60 minutes. At two to five sessions, that's between CHF 400 and CHF 1000, and you decide fresh after each session.

Start here

You don't need to know today how it goes on

Book a first session. After that, you'll know what it feels like when the pressure eases — and whether you want a second one.

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