Hypnotherapy for Addictions — Alcohol, Drugs, Porn or Gambling
Clinical hypnosis in Newcastle for the pull you can't think your way out of
Clinical hypnosis to help change the automatic patterns driving addictions. Live Fully on Your Terms.
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What You’re Living With · Why This Helps · What Might Change · Working Together · Science Behind It
Most addictions start as a solution — to stress, pain, boredom or overwhelm. Over time the solution becomes the problem, and knowing that doesn't loosen its grip.
Hypnosis works with the triggers, urges and beliefs underneath the pattern, alongside the medical or specialist support that serious addiction often needs.
If this sounds familiar
Smoking or vaping more than you want to admit
Drinking to take the edge off and finding the “off switch” hard
Gambling, gaming, porn or scrolling that eats time, money, sleep or relationships
Substance use you've hidden, minimised or tried to stop before
"I'll stop after this weekend" — on repeat, and hating the loop
Part of you desperate to stop, part of you protecting the habit
How hypnosis helps?
1. Slows the trigger–urge–use sequence — so you can see where real choices exist.
2. Turns urges into waves — something you can ride out, not orders you must obey.
3. Strengthens the part of you that wants out — so it outweighs the part chasing quick relief.
4. Rehearses high-risk moments — the end of the day, certain people, certain places — going differently.
What Might Change for You?
Fewer “automatic” episodes of the behaviour
Shorter, less overwhelming urges
More days that line up with your intentions
Less shame and self-loathing around the pattern
Stronger sense that change is possible – and actually happening
What to Expect in Sessions?
Get honest about the addictions – what you’re doing, how often, why and what it costs you.
Assess safety – whether medical or specialist addiction support is needed alongside hypnosis.
Run tailored hypnosis – focusing on triggers, urges, identity and future self, not generic “you will never do X again” scripts.
Create support strategies – small changes to environment, routines and support network that back up the hypnosis work.
Next steps
You don’t have to just “put up with it”.
If you want research-backed, psychotherapy–literate support:
Book a Free 15-Minute Discovery Call – ask questions, feel the fit.
Or Book Initial Consultation to discuss your health challenges, goals and form a Hypnotherapy based treatment plan.
Or Book a Hypnotherapy Session if you are ready to start working on triggers, urges and positive change.
Research
Hypnosis has long been used as an adjunct in addiction work.
It is possible to harness the power of the mind using Hypnotherapy as a potential treatment for substance use, and other mental health issues.
Hypnosis was once a viable treatment approach for addictions. Then, due to hypnosis being used for entertainment purposes many professionals lost confidence in it. However, it has now started to make a comeback in the treatment of substance abuse. Using hypnosis for treatment, from studies effectively treating alcoholism by using intensive daily sessions. The treatment has been used with 18 clients over the last 7 years and has shown a 77 percent success rate for at least a 1-year follow-up
Scientific studies suggest that hypnotherapy is a powerful promoter of mental and behavioural change that can help clients experiencing out-of-control substance usage, dependency and addiction move towards sobriety and recovery by assisting emotional and behavioural change (O'Keeffe, 2020; O'Keeffe, 2017)
Hypnosis enhances motivation to conquer addiction by transforming the psychological factors that fuel substance abuse Conifer Park.
In the context of addiction recovery, hypnosis serves as a tool that may ease emotional distress and even alter a patient's sensory perception of pain NCBI.
The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association both approved hypnosis as a treatment for addictions in the middle of the 20th century.
All patients (100%) completely stopped use of any street drugs and results remained stable for 6 months after end of treatment.
Another study found that combining hypnosis and traditional treatment was more effective at helping people stop smoking than traditional methods alone.
A case study showed that hypnosis was used to help a patient overcome her chronic cocaine addiction. Following 4 months of hypnosis, this patient ceased use of all drugs, where previously she had used cocaine on a daily basis.Studies suggest that hypnosis can be a powerful tool when it comes to treating substance and alcohol use disorders.
Hypnosis is being used with great success in addiction treatment. There are quite a few studies that confirm its effectiveness in this setting. One study called “Group Hypnosis of Drug Addicts”. Of the study participants who receive hypnotherapy, 90 percent completed treatment. Within six months, 100 percent of those were still off of drugs and 78 percent remained abstinent at the two-year mark.
It needs no elaboration what addictions can do to one’s life and lives of people around them.
Hypnosis can surely help to get the Life back on track.