ADDICTION
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Addiction support therapy and coaching in Colchester, Essex
Breaking free from addiction can feel like an overwhelming challenge. Whether you’re struggling with substance dependence, or any other habit that has taken control of your life, hypnotherapy offers a powerful, compassionate approach to help you regain control and live your life to the fullest.
How Hypnotherapy Can Help with Addictions
Addictions are often deeply rooted in the subconscious mind, driven by patterns, beliefs, and emotions that can be difficult to change through willpower alone. Hypnotherapy works by addressing these underlying causes, allowing you to make lasting changes at the core of your being.
Combining hypnosis with addiction psychology and coaching tools, is a powerful way to help support you in getting your life back on track.
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Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Addiction Recovery
- Break Old Habits: Hypnotherapy helps you weaken the power of addictive urges by reconditioning your mind to respond differently to triggers and cravings.
- Address Emotional Root Causes: Many addictions are linked to unresolved emotions, trauma, or stress. Hypnotherapy can help uncover and heal these root causes, promoting emotional well-being.
- Enhance Self-Control: Hypnosis can reinforce your ability to manage cravings, make healthier choices, and develop a stronger sense of self-discipline.
- Boost Confidence: Through positive suggestion, hypnotherapy helps you build self-confidence and belief in your ability to overcome addiction and create lasting change.
- Non-Invasive & Drug-Free: Hypnotherapy is a natural, non-invasive method of treatment that doesn’t involve medications or harsh interventions.
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How I work with Addictions
As with all my clients, you will be treated as an individual as there is no one-size-fits-all therapy for addiction.
In our first session, we will sensitively and confidentially explore the history of your addiction. In some instances, you may find it difficult to discuss details and specific memories. That is absolutely fine, we go at your pace. In this session we also look at what is motivating you to resolve the addiction at this point in your life, and what your future would look like free from it.
Over the course of the subsequent sessions I will use a variety of techniques to resolve your cravings, triggers and beliefs so that addiction can become something in the past that no longer has power over you.
This is achieved through a combination (where appropriate) of traditional hypnosis, EMDR/EMI eye movement therapy (used by the British Army to resolve PTSD in soldiers returning from war zones), Rewind Therapy, NLP, EFT (known as tapping) and other healing modalities.
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My approach to Addiction therapy
Initial Contact
Your first step is to send me a message via the contact form on this site, by email to info@victoriawardhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07813 251 152
You can say as much or as little as you’d like, as we will arrange a convenient time to speak on the phone so that you can tell me a little about what you would like help with, ask any questions that you have, and I can explain the practicalities of working together.
This first contact is a brilliant way for us to get to know each other a little, so that you can be sure that I am the therapist you would like to work with, and I can be sure that my approach is going to be a good fit for you.
Trauma can often be difficult to talk about, so you don’t need to go into detail here if you’re not comfortable doing so. We take this all at your pace, and every interaction is done in complete confidence without any judgement.
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The Initial Face-to-Face Session
If we decide to work with each other, then we’ll set up the initial face-to-face consultation at my comfortable practice near Colchester, Essex. It is a non-clinical environment, where you can be comfortable to speak in confidence and be heard without judgement. It is a supportive environment, conducive to healing.
Most of this session will be spent sensitively exploring your addiction at a pace that is comfortable to you. You can tell me as much or as little in this session, as there is much work that can be done content-free until you feel more able to discuss what has happened to you.
We will explore the events that have led up to you coming to see me and the impact it has on your life. We will also look at your motivation for changing, and begin to create the image of the you you will become once you are free from the effects of addiction.
Depending on the time, we may then start with a gentle introductory technique, that could be a simple relaxation hypnosis, or one of the tools that I have to work directly with the addictive part of your brain.
The initial session last approximately 1.5 hours
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