What is alcohol dependency?

Alcohol dependency describes that moment when you realise you need to drink more to get the effect your are seeking, or find yourself cracking open a bottle at a time when it really doesn’t make sense. People who are alcohol dependent will often prioritise having a drink over other activities or obligations (such as work or family life), are known in the friendship circle as the one who always gets drunk, and may even be at the stage when they continue drinking despite any harmful consequences they have recognised – for example, depression related to drinking or increasingly damaged relationships.

Hypnotherapy for alcohol dependency can help you take back control of your drinking, before you reach an even more damaging position.

How can hypnotherapy treat alcohol dependency?

I use a combination of three evidence-based and highly effective techniques to help my clients beat their dependency on alcohol.

Hypnotherapy

Using hypnotherapy, I seek to get to the root of the problem by inducing a state of heightened awareness in the patient – a dreamlike state where we can access the subconscious, where the responses we have to certain triggers are based. These responses are not set in stone; In this relaxed and open state, you become more susceptible to suggestion, which we can take advantage of by talking around different ways you can respond to triggers, whether these be stress-related, habitual or social.  By changing the way your mind responds to situations we can change your physical response too – meaning that the things that would usually trigger your need to drink will no longer affect you in the same way.

Brainworking Recursive Therapy (BWRT)

Our ingrained habits, repetitive behaviours and automatic responses to events may seem ‘hard-wired’ into our brains, but this is not the case.  Habits or patterns of behaviour are hard to break, whether it be drinking, smoking, gambling or even infidelity – but they are not impossible to break.  Using BrainWorking Recursive Therapy, we can rewire your brain – just like when an electrician re-wires your home and simply threads new wires around the old, disconnecting those no longer needed or safe to keep – and putting new, healthy wires, or responses, in place.

Visual Coding and Re-patterning Technique (V-CART)

V-Cart uses exciting discoveries in the field of neuro-science around how the brain encodes information.  Often, people turn towards addictive behaviours as a way to forget about, or block out, the stuff we’re dealing with in our day to day life.  In V-Cart, I use patterns of lights in a sequence that can wipe out the feelings of trauma and subsequently the urges that drive you towards the behaviour you want to stop.  Put simply, quite often my clients have chosen alcohol to stop them from ‘feeling.’ – feeling stress, anxiety, grief, fear, etc. When you take away that feeling, the desire to turn to alcohol goes with it.  I can even use V-Cart to install a mental repulsion towards certain foods or drink, so making it so much easier to abstain as you no longer have any desire for it.

The satisfaction of success

I have worked with many people suffering from alcohol dependency and find it one of the most satisfying treatments.  Beating alcohol dependency is a hard fight, and even harder when you attempt to fight it alone.  With my help, you can literally alter the way you think, behave and react, breaking the patterns that have led to the dependency on drinking, and getting drunk, that threatens to control you and potentially destroy your life.