Hypnotherapy for Alcohol Addiction Harley Street, London

If your drinking has crept up over the last few years and you’d like to bring it back down before it becomes a real problem, hypnotherapy can be an effective approach. It works particularly well at this stage — earlier than crisis, before formal medical dependency, while change is still possible without specialist intervention.

Important note about severe drinking

Hypnotherapy is for moderate drinking habits that you want to reduce or moderate. It’s not the right tool for severe alcohol dependency.

If you’re physically dependent on alcohol — drinking heavily every day, experiencing tremors or sweats when you stop, or hiding drinking from people close to you — please contact your GP or a specialist alcohol service first. Sudden cessation in physical dependency can be medically dangerous and needs supervised support.

How the work goes

Sessions combine clinical hypnotherapy for changing the unconscious associations between alcohol and reward, transition, comfort and identity, NLP for the cognitive patterns that maintain drinking, and coaching for building alternative responses to the underlying needs alcohol has been meeting.

Usually 4 to 8 sessions, depending on how embedded the habit is.

Stop completely or moderate

You decide. Some clients want to stop entirely; others want to drink occasionally and socially without the habit running away. Both can be realistic goals, depending on your situation.