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Clinical perspectives, case studies, and practical guidance on integrating gut-brain therapy into your DGBI care plan.

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The future of IBS – Expert panel on digital therapies

January 24, 2025

Join IBS experts to explore the future of digital therapeutics, including Monash RCT breakthroughs on GDH and how it can support you and your patients.

Beyond the guidelines: Clinical reasoning in pediatric functional GI care

How two pediatric gastroenterologists approach complex gut-brain cases in practice

Could your IBS patients get gut-brain therapy covered by Medicare?

Cost is the number 1 reason patients don't follow through on gut-brain therapy. A new Medicare model could change that.

Managing pediatric patients with gut-brain disorders

Catch up with the webinar for practical insights into managing these complex cases

February 19, 2026

Rethinking obesity care in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction

Gain practical strategies for managing complex patients with obsesity and gut-brain disorders.

January 29, 2026

If food heals, why are we taking it away?

How evidence, misinformation, and bias are shaping the future of brain-gut care with Dr. Kim Bretz

December 16, 2025

Nerva's 2025 Research Round-Up

We’ve compiled this year’s key findings from our research collaborations with the Mayo Clinic, Mass General, Monash University, Mount Sinai, and the NHS.

December 3, 2025

Rethinking nutrition in IBS and IBD: Evidence-informed care for real-world patients

Nutrition is one of the most discussed – and most misunderstood – elements of IBS and IBD care

November 7, 2025

The GI-Eating Disorder Connection: Managing Comorbid Symptoms

When digestive symptoms and disordered eating overlap, effective care depends on clinician collaboration.

October 30, 2025

How to talk about brain-gut therapy with skeptical patients

Discover how to confidently introduce brain-gut therapy to even the most skeptical patients

October 18, 2025

Nerva vs The Calm Gut App: What’s the Best IBS App?

Nerva has become the default choice for gut-directed hypnotherapy - used by hundreds of thousands and recommended by thousands of clinicians. As you explore your options, you might come across The Calm Gut app.

October 15, 2025

How new pediatric guidelines inform integrated care for adolescent IBS

A growing evidence base and new pediatric guidelines are reshaping IBS management for adolescents.

October 15, 2025

How the Patient Assistance Program expands access to affordable brain-gut therapy

Nerva's Patient Assistance Program supports your patients with reduced costs and doesn't add to your administrative burden.

October 14, 2025

How Nerva is bridging cost and access gaps in IBS management for your patients

Digital brain-gut therapy lowers IBS care costs – and Nerva’s Patient Assistance Program makes it accessible to every patient.

September 17, 2025

The digestive health in dysautonomia: Practical strategies to improve patient outcomes

Watch UCLA dietitian and gut health expert Nancee Jaffe explain the connection between digestive health conditions and dysautonomia.

September 5, 2025

Listen: Hypnotherapy vs diet for IBS – Exploring the gut-brain connection

Listen to this podcast for a deep dive into IBS care beyond food – with insights on hypnotherapy, diet, and emerging research.

August 18, 2025

Integrating brain-gut therapy into IBS care

Transform how you deliver IBS care by seeing how brain-gut therapy fits within a truly integrated model.

Diagnoses that fool the scope: The great imitators of IBS

IBS is one of the most common diagnoses in gastroenterology – but not all patients with IBS-like symptoms actually have it.

Mind your gut – Personalizing multidisciplinary IBS care

Kate Scarlata and Dr. Megan Riehl dive into personalizing IBS care for your patients.

Breaking the IBS-stress cycle: What patients need, but aren’t getting

New insights from the State of IBS Report reveal why brain-gut therapies should play a larger role in how we care for stress-responsive IBS.

What Dr. Gary Elkins’ new book teaches us about hypnotherapy, symptom relief, and the mind-body connection

'Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy: What You Need to Know' is a practical guide to understanding hypnotherapy in evidence-based care.

Connecting the dots in DGBI: A patient-centered pathway

This webinar explores practical ways to improve communication in gut-brain care.

Nerva Completes Mahana Therapeutics Acquisition to Expand Access to Digital Therapies for IBS

Bringing together two evidence-based brain-gut therapies, this acquisition supports a more accessible, integrated approach to IBS care delivery.

State of IBS 2025 webinar

Explore key clinical insights from the State of IBS 2025 report, designed to help clinicians deliver more effective, patient-centered care.

Unlock the State of IBS 2025 report

These are the emerging insights and trends shaping the future of IBS management – and where care is falling short according to 3k+ patients.

Program overview & referral process

Learn how gut-directed hypnotherapy works, why it matters for IBS care, and how to easily refer patients to Nerva in this quick clinician explainer.

How to refer Nerva

Watch the 2-minute video explaining how to introduce the program, set patient expectations, and use the online referral form to help patients get started.

Optimizing IBS care with Nerva's co-CEO

Watch Nerva's co-CEO share the best ways to talk about Nerva and how to get patients started.

Nerva program overview

Curious how gut-directed hypnotherapy fits into your IBS care toolkit? Watch Research Lead Claire Hall break it down — and see how easy it is to start referring.

Optimizing IBS care – A Nerva overview

Here's how digital gut-directed hypnotherapy improves access, outcomes, and affordability for your patients.

AGA quality guidelines recommend gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS care

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) now officially recommends brain–gut behavior therapies (BGBT) and digital therapeutics.

Expanding insurance access to digital therapeutics: HIF partners with Mindset Health

As healthcare coverage evolves, so does the need for innovative, cost-effective treatments that address complex, chronic conditions.

February 27, 2025

Nerva Clinical Decision Tool

Nerva’s new tool helps you quickly assess if gut-directed hypnotherapy is right for your patient, streamlining decisions and supporting personalized care.

February 27, 2025

Determining patient suitability for gut-directed hypnotherapy with Nerva

Dr. Megan Riehl, a leading GI psychologist, speaks on integrating psychological care into IBS management.

February 24, 2025

Listen: A quick overview of how Nerva is supporting your patients

Quick insights into how Nerva supports IBS patients. Co-creator Dr. Simone Peters shares why gut-directed hypnotherapy plays a key role in care.

November 19, 2024

Listen: Bridging the gap – App-based solutions for IBS

Learn how gut-directed hypnotherapy transforms IBS care and equips you with practical tools to help patients better manage their symptoms.

October 15, 2024

From hypervigilance to healing with gut-directed-hypnotherapy (Podcast)

Tune in to hear Dr. Mary Pardee and Mindset Health's Claire Hall discuss how gut-directed hypnotherapy is a powerful alternative to drug therapies.

September 25, 2024

The conditioned food restriction & sensitivity trap

Managing food avoidance in patients? Watch Joanna Baker and Wendy Busse discuss effective approaches.

August 27, 2024

Watch IBS RCT panel highlights

Catch up with a quick summary of The Future of IBS panel event to learn how to integrate new management strategies into your practice.

August 22, 2024

RCT insights: Gut-directed hypnotherapy calms IBS symptoms & improves psychological outcomes

A new randomized control trial demonstrates the efficacy of gut-directed hypnotherapy.

Gut revolutions: How gut-brain therapies are revolutionizing IBS management (Podcast)

Listen to the podcast discussing the gut-brain therapies transforming IBS management.

IBS success with a multimodal approach (Case Study)

Here’s how dietitian Chloe Madigan helped a vegetarian student manage IBS with hypnotherapy and diet.

Updating dietary therapies for IBS

Dr. Prashant Singh from the University of Michigan shares the latest in dietary therapies for IBS.

Quiet the Diet - Patient resource (Podcast)

Nerva’s Claire Hall on the Quiet the Diet podcast speaks about shifting the dismissive “it’s all in your head” narrative on IBS.

December 19, 2023

Disorders of gut–brain interaction (DGBI) management strategies

For patients with IBS and other DGBIs, BGBT can address root causes and enhance treatment outcomes.

December 13, 2023

Polyvagal theory and IBS

A webinar for healthcare professionals to discover more about polyvagal theory and IBS and how this applies to your patients.

October 20, 2023

Improving accessibility – Ways to make IBS care affordable

IBS costs $21B a year – making digital health tools essential. Here’s how to guide patients to the best options.

October 20, 2023

Claim your spot on the Clincian Directory

Want to support more IBS patients and exand your reach? Learn how to join the Nerva Clinician Directory.

October 17, 2023

When a diet isn’t the answer – Managing a complex patient (Case Study)

With 20 years of symptoms and a negative mindset, Lily found help through gut-directed hypnotherapy with Keren Reiser.

September 4, 2023

What the hell is gut-directed hypnotherapy? (Podcast)

Dr. Brad Leech joined Body+Soul’s Healthy-ish podcast to answer the big IBS question: “What the hell is gut-directed hypnotherapy?”

August 18, 2023

The economics of IBS – How to help patients ease their financial strain

Managing IBS costs can be as tough as treating symptoms – here’s how to cut them in half.

Identifying and managing pelvic floor dysfunction in IBS: IBS Frontiers Summit

Dr. Angela Khera discusses how to best manage IBS patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.

Benefits of integrated care for DGBI: IBS Frontiers Summit

Dr. Bill Chey shares insights into integrated care, integrated medicine, precision medicine, & digital health.

The psychological burden of IBS: IBS Frontiers Summit

GI psychologist Dr. Megan Riehl presents on the psychological burden of IBS.

The role of gut-directed hypnotherapy in disorders of brain-gut interaction: IBS Frontiers Summit

Dr. Peters addresses misconceptions and shares insights into her research about the efficacy of gut-directed hypnotherapy.

Diagnosing IBS & building patient confidence: IBS Frontiers Summit

Building patient confidence is key to optimizing outcomes, said gastroenterologist Dr. May Wong.

Diet as a therapeutic for IBS: IBS Frontiers Summit

Dr. Emma Halmos of Monash University shared her insights into dietary therapies for IBS management.

Integrative approaches to managing gastrointestinal conditions & eating disorders

Supporting patients with GI conditions and eating disorders is complex – but possible, says dietitian Beth Rosen.

Transforming gut health, naturally (Case Study)

Dr. Lela Altman used gut-directed hypnotherapy to manage 40 years of SIBO symptoms and broaden a restrictive diet.

How gut-directed hypnotherapy calmed a complex patient (Case Study)

This case study examines how naturopathic doctor Kim Bretz challenged a complex patient to try a simple plan of gut-directed hypnotherapy rather than a dietary intervention to address her gut-brain interaction disorder.

Helping a high-stress patient (Case Study)

This case study shows how Dr. Shamistra Barathan helped a patient see the mind-gut connection through education and support.

Transitioning a patient from anxiety to calm (Case Study)

*Sarah’s IBS was fueled by anxiety. With diet and hypnotherapy, Miriam Mullard helped her reclaim control.

Pain & poor gut health for 30 years (Case Study)

A woman in her 70s with decades of gut issues and a lifelong meditation practice seemed the ideal Nerva candidate to dietitian Erin O’Neill.

Managing 10 years of diarrhea and despair (Case Study)

After 10 years of gut issues & diarrhea, a patient found relief with Michael Smith of Planet Naturopath through a simple, anxiety-focused approach.

February 3, 2023

The role of psychological therapies in IBS management

Dr. Meghan Riehl and Nerva co-creator Dr. Simone Peters talk about the critical role psychological therapies play in managing IBS.

January 5, 2023

Proving the doubters wrong (Podcast)

When patients ask, “What does my mind have to do with IBS?”, Nerva Co-Creator Dr. Simone Peters shares her journey from skeptic to expert on Australia’s Radio National.

January 5, 2023

In conversation with Gastro Girl and Dr. Simone Peters (Podcast)

“When patients arrive, they worry they’ll cluck like a chicken,” joked Dr. Simone Peters on the Gastro Girl podcast.

October 26, 2022

Helping patients through the holidays

Holiday appointment gaps? Here's how to keep clients on track through the new year.

October 20, 2022

NPR discusses the gut-brain connection (Podcast)

NPR’s Allison Aubrey highlights the gut-brain connection and gut-directed hypnotherapy with Dr. Megan Riehl of GI OnDEMAND.

September 26, 2022

The development of Nerva

Watch Nerva Co-Creator Dr. Simone Peters explain how the Nerva program was developed from her research.

September 7, 2022

Measuring symptom improvement in Nerva

The Nerva program is a six-week gut-directed hypnotherapy program that helps patients manage their irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms.

Nutrition, GDH and finding the missing piece (Case Study)

Rebecca* was referred to me by her family doctor in May 2021. She had been experiencing persistent digestive issues since 2013. She had been diagnosed with IBS, and also had a history of depression and anxiety.

Gut-directed hypnotherapy randomized clinical trial

Mindset Health and Monash University are conducting a randomized clinical trial comparing app-based gut-directed hypnotherapy to psychoeducation for IBS patients.

What to do when the low FODMAP diet fails?

We spoke to Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Joanna Baker, from Everyday Nutrition about what to do when the low FODMAP diet fails.

Gut-directed hypnotherapy: A new direction for IBS management

Mindset Health speaks with Dr. Simone Peters about gut-directed hypnotherapy, diagnosing IBS, and the gut-brain axis.

It’s not all in their head: Psychosocial factors associated with disorders of gut-brain interaction

This webinar with Dr. Christina Jagielski explores the complex factors that contribute to disorders of gut-brain interaction.

Low FODMAP and hypnotherapy for IBS: Which path is right for your clients?

Managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is complex—there are many moving parts to consider, and formulating a plan for your clients may even feel overwhelming at times.

The role of the low FODMAP diet in IBS symptom management

If you are one of the 15% of the population with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), chances are you have heard of FODMAPs at some stage.

Digital therapeutics: Six of the best

Digital therapeutics can fill a gap in the care model that traditional treatments are lacking.

Nerva patient survey: Analysis of self-reported satisfaction post completion of 6-week gut-directed hypnotherapy program

Role of a healthcare provider in adherence and outcomes of patients using gut-directed hypnotherapy digital therapeutic

IBS is the most common functional gut disorder affecting approximately 5-12% of the Western population [1].

Delivering digital therapeutics: What your patients need to know

Technology in healthcare has rapidly advanced, enhancing medical precision and empowering patients to manage their own health.

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*Disclaimer: Nerva is a self-guided program that may help people self-manage and live well with their diagnosed disorder of the gut-brain interaction. Nerva has not been evaluated by the FDA, TGA, MHRA or equivalent regulatory bodies. Users are directed not to make any changes to their prescribed medication or other type of medical treatment without seeking professional medical advice. Some in-app coaching content may be generated by an AI system for educational and wellness purposes only and does not replace professional medical care, diagnosis, or treatment.

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