Laurence DELINOT
Hypnotherapist
16bis rue du Docteur Roux
75015 PARIS
My name is Laurence DELINOT, a hypnotherapist based in Paris and offering online sessions. For over 15 years, I have been supporting individuals facing relationship difficulties, deep emotional deprivation, or painful romantic patterns, often including emotional dependency.
Through hypnosis, it is possible to soothe these internal mechanisms and restore a healthier relationship with oneself and others.
On this page, I invite you to better understand what emotional dependency is, why it develops, its consequences, and how hypnosis can support an emotional transformation journey toward greater emotional autonomy.
Emotional dependency is characterized by an excessive need to be loved, reassured, or recognized by another person. A person with emotional dependency often feels that their self-worth depends on the attention or presence of others. They may experience great difficulty being alone or feeling emotionally secure without a relationship.
Psychologically, emotional dependency is closely linked to emotional wounds and attachment mechanisms developed during childhood. When fundamental emotional needs were not adequately acknowledged or secured, the adult unconsciously seeks to fill this void through romantic relationships.
Certain life events, such as a breakup, can reveal or amplify this dependency, making separation particularly painful. In these situations, specialized hypnosis support can be beneficial to ease attachment and navigate relational grief.
Emotional dependency manifests through recurring behaviors and feelings. This may include intense fear of losing the other person, jealousy, a constant need for reassurance or attention. The person may tend to over-adapt, self-sacrifice, or say “yes” when they really mean “no,” out of fear of being abandoned.
Attachment can become very quick and very strong, sometimes at the expense of one’s own needs. These patterns are rarely conscious: they repeat from one relationship to another, generating suffering, frustration, and a sense of helplessness.
Emotional dependence is often rooted in childhood experiences. Lack of emotional security, feelings of rejection, lack of emotional support, anxious, absent or unpredictable parents… all these experiences can undermine a sense of inner security.
The child learns that love can be lost, that attention must be earned or expectations conformed to in order to be accepted. In adulthood, these experiences influence love relationships, and can become part of what is known as an adult adult attachment disorder.
Emotional dependence is also linked to fragile self-esteem. When a person deeply doubts their own worth, they look to others for what they can’t give themselves: recognition, security, validation.
Reinforcing self-esteem and learning to position oneself in the relationship is an essential part of therapeutic work. Hypnosis can help you rebuild a more stable and accurate self-image.
Emotionally, emotional dependence generates considerable instability. Fear of loneliness, anxiety about abandonment, sadness or jealousy take up a lot of space. The feeling of inner emptiness can become overwhelming as soon as the other person moves away, even temporarily.
In relationships, emotional dependence often leads to unbalanced or toxic relationships. The person may be attracted to unavailable, distant or domineering partners, and have difficulty leaving a relationship that is causing suffering.
Break-ups are experienced as real emotional collapses, sometimes requiring specific support, particularly through hypnosis, to soothe the bond and rebuild.
In the long term, emotional dependence can lead to a loss of autonomy, self-forgetfulness and emotional exhaustion. Personal, social and professional life can be impoverished, as so much energy is mobilized by the relationship and the fear of losing the other person.
Overcoming emotional dependence is possible, but it’s a gradual process. It’s not a matter of erasing your past or denying your need for a relationship, but oflearning to secure your inner world.
This path involves recognizing wounds, understanding relationship patterns and developing emotional autonomy. Therapeutic support ensures that you don’t remain alone in the face of these often deeply rooted mechanisms.
Hypnosis enables us to act at the unconscious level, where deep-seated fears reside: fear of abandonment, fear of rejectionof loneliness. By entering an altered state of consciousness, the person can calm his or her emotions and reduce the intensity of emotional attachment.
This approach is also relevant when affective dependence is accompanied bygeneralized anxiety or ruminations.
Hypnosis helps to identify and transform repetitive relationship patterns that are unconsciously replayed. It then becomes possible to distance oneself from these automatisms, to make new relationship choices and to get out of dependent or controlling relationships.
Depending on the individual’s sensitivity, I useEricksonian hypnosis, which is more indirect and metaphorical, orhumanistic hypnosiswhich allows you to remain fully aware and active in your therapeutic work.
A central focus of our work is to reinforce self-esteem. Hypnosis helps to revisit limiting beliefs, restore a sense of self-worth and develop the ability to set limits.
This work is similar to that carried out by a hypnosis for assertivenessto promote a more accurate position in relationships, without dependence or sacrifice.
Gradually, people learn to feel emotionally secure on their own. They can then enter into relationships by choice, rather than out of need or fear. The aim is to regain emotional autonomy, compatible with more balanced, respectful relationships.
Support always begins with a period of in-depth listening, enabling us to understand your emotional history, your past relationships and your current difficulties. This time is essential if we are to define a personalized approach.
The first hypnosis session is then based on the approach best suited to you: Ericksonian hypnosis or humanistic hypnosis. Work can focus on emotional release, transforming unconscious patterns and strengthening inner resources.
Sessions can take place in a Paris office or online, with the same quality of support.
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