Addiction Help
Hypnosis for Habits and Addictions
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Millions of people around the world suffer from many forms of embarrassing habits like nail biting or teeth grinding to more serious addictions such as drugs, alcohol or gambling. People typically develop an addiction or a habit in the first instance as a way to deal with a difficult or unpleasant emotion or feeling. Because these emotions and feelings reside in the subconscious part of your mind Hypnotherapy is a very effective way of helping you change these behaviours. Using hypnosis and psycho-analysis techniques including CBT, Gestalt and Parts Therapy we are able to find and make sense of the root cause of the problem and then help you make whatever changes you need to make to starting living a better life, the life where you have both choice and control.
Recognising, understanding and then dealing with the reasons behind the habit or addiction can change your life. Whether it’s to do with relationships, your health and well-being, your career, your family life or your finances, hypnotherapy can make a huge different.
Some Common Habits and Addictions Hypnotherapy Can Help with
- Shopping
- Work
- Eating
- Nail Biting
- Chocolate
- Caffeine
- Gambling
- Teeth Grinding
- Skin Picking
- Smoking
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Sex
- Internet
- Snoring
- Soft drinks
Alcohol Addiction
Maybe that glass of wine with dinner has now become a bottle a night. Perhaps you want to drink only when you’re out socially, and limit yourself to a glass or two; or, perhaps alcohol has become something you feel you cannot do without and you want to break free of it for good. Research has now shown how middle-aged women who said they drank in moderation, which is about 3 drinks a week, had a higher risk of liver, rectal and breast cancer, than those who drank less than 2 drinks per week. Studies also indicate that there are a larger number of women in the 50+ age group suffering from alcohol addiction. Statistics also show that those in the 25 and under age group and also at risk of major health risks in the future due to binge drinking.
Drug Addiction
Hypnotherapy has shown to provide benefits to people who have addictions to chemically addictive drugs through the lessening of both anxiety and stress. It is recommended that hypnotherapy is used as an adjunct treatment to traditional drug counselling.
Smoking Addiction
Recent studies show that Psychotherapy using hypnosis has a 93% success rate compares to other quitting techniques. EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) has also had a wrap with clinical trial running both in the US and Australia showing impressive long term results.
Gambling Addiction
The emotional cost of gambling can be even harder than the financial cost. The urge to gamble can we so overwhelming and although the addict often feels a great sense of guilt they are powerless to control their addiction. It is recognised that boredom and stress can play a major part in this type of addiction and the dangers of symptom substitution.