Nerva reviews

I did the six weeks and experienced small changes, then another three weeks on top and really saw some big changes. This app is a game-changer for my IBS symptoms. My flare-ups are less intense than they were before using Nerva a year ago. I use it still for flare-ups and they are reduced in intensity & length. I find it particularly effective for stress-related flare-ups. I’m really, really grateful for this app.

Ibs had turned my anxiety onto overdrive especially around food, I couldn’t to eat out without suffering diarrhea even if I stuck to a low Fodmap meal. Since starting the app I’ve had no diarrhea even with a high Fodmap meal(just to check if it worked) I highly recommend this if you are suffering from anxiety based ibs.

Like many of us, I found myself down a research rabbit hole during a particularly bad flare up. I was so frustrated just wanting a straight answer about what I could eat that wouldn’t make it worse. One of the articles mentioned this hypnotherapy app and I was skeptical but desperate. Would I really no longer have to log my food and avoid so many favorites? Either way I was willing to take the risk and give it a go and I’m so glad that I did. We all know that IBS is exacerbated bu stress, but I didn’t realize that so much of my problem was caused by essentially living my life in fight or flight. With a brain running forever on panic mode so many normal functions go by the way side. Nerva helped me rewire and be all over less anxious and more resilient. I have a better relationship with my gut, appetite, etc. I eat what I want, but I rarely want very much of “trigger foods” but it now feels less like a stressful avoidance and more like listening to my body. I haven’t had a pain flare up since starting the program and think about my IBS less than I have in years.

I had been suffering from abdominal pain for over a year, doing all the recommended tests including a colonoscopy(!) without any findings. The doctors couldn’t find an explanation to my pain and said “it’s probably IBS”. I have been doing meditation and yoga, and then decided to try Nerva. The results were incredible, and I wasn’t sure what to believe when I noticed that my stomach cramps subsided almost instantly after using this wonderful app. Now, 3 months later, my stomach pain is not bothering me any longer, and the pain has almost vanished! I used to have pain every single day for a few hours before, and now I only get it for a few minutes a few times a month. I believe a lot of pain can be caused by anxious thoughts in the subconscious mind, and this app targets that right away. Thank you SO much for creating this app, it has really helped me get back to how I was before my stomach pain all started!

I am on to my third week. I feel like my digestion has slowed right down - it is such a different feeling to what had become my “normal”. I feel so much more relaxed and less anxious lately. I have never been hypnotised before... I listen just before bed and I almost always feel like I’ve slept through the entire thing only to wake up just as it ends. Pretty amazing if you ask me. Worth every cent.

This app has opened up a new door for someone who has been thrown medication after medication for so long. As my dietitian and I are fairly sure the biggest contributor to my IBS is stress, i’m hoping this gut therapy technique will offer some relief. Worth the money so far, in my opinion.

I’ve been struggling with IBS for a long time. Even with good nutrition and health routine, the stress and nerve factors of this condition make discomfort, stomach pain, bloating and unpredictable bowels are literally a thorn in my side. This condition is complicated and misunderstood, even by some doctors and nutritionists. I’m so grateful that the science is catching up. Making the connection between the brain, the stomach and the nervous system is the missing link. Tailored nutrition, sleep, regular exercise and managing stress are of utmost important and this app has become part of the healthy routine.

I started this program during an episode of gastric distress (not sure if ibs or smthg else) and I really do think it’s helped me. After each session my gut feels physically calmed. I listen to each session twice a day, and I think the soothing words are already permeating and quieting my anxious mind. Looking forward to the next weeks. Week four update- I am rly enjoying the app, and the texts so far this wk are especially insightful. I do wish there was more variety in the scenarios, bc that would be more engaging, but I still benefit from hearing them repeatedly. Overall very thankful for this app!

I’m on week 3 and have not experienced any flares since starting, which is amazing because they’d been frequent prior to using this app, and not even my usual prescribed medication was helping ease. I’ve noticed I’m now much calmer (even with Covid work stress), sleep better, and most importantly feel better! Great app and glad I invested (very reasonably priced vs a specialist or ongoing medication). Would recommend to anyone who is struggling to manage IBS!

I started this program during an episode of gastric distress (not sure if ibs or smthg else) and I really do think it’s helped me. After each session my gut feels physically calmed. I listen to each session twice a day, and I think the soothing words are already permeating and quieting my anxious mind. Looking forward to the next weeks.

It’s been a lifesaver!! I can’t express how grateful I am. I was hesitant at first about the ability of hypnotherapy to help, and about the money, but I’m convinced. It’s been incredible. I now want to try hypnotherapy for other issues I’ve struggled with as well, it’s been so helpful! I love how optimistic it’s making me feel. I have come to the conclusion that my gut symptoms were caused both by high FODMAP foods and by stress. But even more so, I had developed a mind-body link that was keeping me in a stress response around certain behaviors (eating, driving, sleeping being some of them) that would trigger an attack. I’ve never yet had a time that using a Nerva hypnotherapy session during one of these attacks hasn’t worked immediately (and I mean within the first few minutes of the session usually). PS. I am eating a low FODMAP diet as well, so I can’t speak to using the Nerva system alone, but I will say that the diet alone was not eliminating my symptoms. Adding the Nerva program helped tremendously!!

I’ve been suffering with IBS for decades. Stress and anxiety have always been a trigger for me and I really was focusing on my symptoms all day, nervous about eating certain foods, and especially symptomatic traveling because of fear of not having a bathroom if needed. I’m finishing week 6 of the program and I don’t even think about my gut anymore! I have symptoms here and there but they really don’t bother me. Nothing short of amazing!!!

I found this very helpful- in times of serious COVID stress, this app provided me with fast (ie within a week) relief. I like the female voice, the guided meditations/ hypnosis scripts are just the ideal length - usually 16 minutes: enough to have time to relax into it, not so long that I wouldn’t do it because ‘I don’t have time’. It’s on the expensive end for an app, but as the add said: same price as one psych consult, but as helpful as a number of sessions would be. I agree with that. And I’m a psych, so I do know what I’m talking about. I also like that it is a program that you just follow, a no brainer, no decision. to make, rather than having too much choice between options, which I find frazzling.

For those of you who understand the mind-gut connection, I have good news! Nerva for IBS is working really well for me 😃 I have completed 6 weeks of therapy using the Nerva app & I have noticed tremendous improvement. I was desperate to try something & knew that a FODMAP diet approach didn’t make sense to me. I’m so glad I decided to try it. Since beginning the program, I’ve had only 3 flare-ups that lasted about an hour, with almost no pain 😱 That’s only 3 incidents in 35 days!!! I feel calmer, I can leave the house without anxiety, and I’m not obsessed with my gut all day long. I know this isn’t for everyone & I’m not “cured”....I’ll still have some bad days probably, but my IBS will no longer control my life. 🎉🎉🤗

I’m a naturally anxious person & I think have got into a negative feedback cycle with worrying about my GI issues, and my body then over-responding to fodmap ‘trigger foods’. So far this app is really helping break this loop & everything has calmed down a lot only a few days in.

I’ve only just started the program and I’m already starting to see an improvement in my symptoms! I love the simplicity of the layout and also the weekly readings- I’m learning so much more about my IBS and how the brain affects the gut Can’t wait to finish the program and be able to live my life again (plus eat without worry!) Thanks guys

Update: June 2026 Flares started up again early this year, I hadn’t used the app for a while but picked it up again in late Mar 2026. After just a few sessions my flare eased. I completed the program from start to finish in mid May and have been using 3-4 x week since. I’ve had only one flare during that time around week 4 that passed after 2 days and since then feeling very good with no substantial symptoms. I still avoid my high FODMAP trigger foods mist of the time, but don’t have to be as strict. When I start to feel discomfort coming on it tends to fade quickly and doesn’t escalate as it used to. This has worked better than anything else I’ve tried. ————- I first tried the Nerva app in March of 2024 when I was experiencing an IBS flare worse than I had in many years. The flare was undoubtedly caused by the stress of an in process international move where I was to start a new job. I saw an ad for the app and was skeptical, then read that Monash University was behind it and decided to give it a try. I didn’t expect much, but I saw a significant symptom production within the first week which I know it’s not common. But it did continue through the program and after. I stopped for the last few months and when another flare started. I went back to the program and again I’m experiencing a significant reduction of symptoms. I’ve been following a modified Low FODMAP diet, which also helps to an extent, but finding a more lasting effect and consistency with this program.

I was a bit skeptical at first in honesty. But I was so desperate willing to try anything. I was so bad with my stomach to the point where I was hospitalised a lot. And I have a lot of on going problems but honestly having stomach problems is unbearable. What I recommend to anyone trying this, is be open, read the information they give you. You must commit you must do it everyday. Make it a routine if you missed it in that time make it up and find time at some point in the day. I got to a really good stage but I fell really ill recently and was given antibiotics which really messed with my stomach lining. And then everything was triggering me so I’m back everyday now. I do recommend doing a blood test to find your allergies to see if there’s anything you can reduce even if you’re a bit allergic to it makes you more aware. I also think this app helps encourage you to be healthier and kinder to yourself. I know it feels expensive but omg so are pro and pre biotics, degas tablets, stomach spasm tablets (hyoscine butylbromide) herbal things, and not to mention any tablets your gp prescribes that til this day I don’t even know if they work do they do anything? I honestly think it’s worth it. I have taken a year to write this review because I wanted to make sure that if there was someone out there in the same position that I’m in then they get a good honest review. The healthy journey you’re on is hard, that’s what’s led you to my review and I just want you that this journey you’re on, you’re not alone and that you’re incredible for trying things to help yourself. That’s not easy, so firstly take a bow. And I hope that your pain eases, and so does your mind. You got this. You can find me if you need a chat via my username online 🤎 I’m not perfect and I have other health things to worry about but this is such a great tool to have in my life. Ps. If the app glitches and the sound isn’t coming on, you have to close and open the app if it still doesn’t work then your phone on and off it’s annoying but I think it’s to do with the phone and bother app hope that helps anyone I had to learn lol

This is my first week using Nerva Hypnosis. I started with doubts, having spent my whole life coping with IBS-D and searching for relief. I am an 84 year old retired trauma Informed mental health counselor. I am also a complex trauma survivor. During this first week I am noticing subtle changes in my conscious awareness of tension in my body and in my outlook on life. I am using breath many times during the day to relieve tension. I am also feeling a fragile sense of hope that I could feel better living with this body for the rest of my life❣️ I have been using NERVA hypnosis and breathing techniques for more than a year now. It has been a very challenging year for me at 85 and 1/2 years of age….many losses including my home and most of my belongings in Hurricane Helene. I use a hypnosis session every morning as my body awakens to tension and bowel activity. I seldom have explosive diarrhea anymore and for the first time in my life that I can remember, I experience regular formed bowel movements. I still have IBS symptoms during the day but am able to reassure myself that they are not a dangerous illness. Then I am able to cope with the symptoms with breathing and go on with my day. Eating is still a challenge as many foods in the USA exacerbate my symptoms. I have been using a plant based nutritional supplement from a company in California called Kate Farms which has helped me maintain my weight and soothes my digestive system. I am so grateful to have Nerva hypnosis sessions always available to help me cope with stress and anxiety in my everyday life. I can imagine using them also to ease my way through the dying process when that occurs for me. Thankyou NERVA❣️