ADDICTIONS
Break Unhelpful Patterns.
Create Healthier Choices.
When a behaviour has become difficult to change, understanding the pattern can open the door to new choices. Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP Coaching can help you work with triggers, urges and learned responses while strengthening healthier ways forward.
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Understanding Addictive Patterns
Unhelpful or addictive behaviours often develop for understandable reasons. A behaviour may initially provide relief, comfort, stimulation, distraction or escape, particularly during periods of stress or emotional difficulty.
Through repetition, the connection between a trigger and the behaviour can become increasingly familiar and automatic. Even when you consciously want something different, the established pattern may continue to influence what you do.
Understanding what triggers the behaviour, what it provides in the short term and what keeps the pattern going can create greater awareness and more opportunity for choice.
Change is not simply about fighting an urge or relying on willpower. It involves understanding the pattern and developing healthier ways of meeting the needs that may sit behind it.
How Clinical Hypnotherapy Can Support Change
A personalised approach to understanding established patterns, developing resources and creating more useful choices.
Understand Patterns
Explore the triggers, thoughts, emotions, physical responses and behaviours involved in the cycle, including what the behaviour may currently provide for you.
Access Resources
Strengthen calmer and more resourceful internal states while exploring alternative ways of responding to triggers, urges and emotional needs.
Rehearse New Responses
Use hypnosis, imagery, mental rehearsal and appropriate NLP approaches to practise alternative responses and reinforce healthier patterns.
What We Can Work With
Support can be tailored to a range of unwanted habits and repetitive behavioural patterns, depending on your individual circumstances and goals.
Smoking & Vaping
Explore the triggers and learned associations connected with smoking or vaping while developing alternative responses and choices.
Food-Related Patterns
Work with unwanted eating patterns, emotional triggers and established associations while developing more supportive responses.
Technology & Internet Use
Explore repetitive patterns around screens, online activity or technology and develop greater awareness and choice around their use.
Other Unhelpful Patterns
If there is a repetitive behaviour you would like to change, we can explore whether it falls appropriately within the scope of HMCY support.
The Change Process
Lasting change is usually built through awareness, new choices, purposeful action and reinforcement.
Awareness
Recognise triggers, urges and the established pattern without judgement.
Understanding
Explore what maintains the pattern and what the behaviour may currently provide.
New Choices
Develop and practise alternative responses that better support your desired outcome.
Reinforcement
Strengthen new responses through repetition, experience and evidence of change.
A Personalised Approach to Change
There is rarely one explanation for why an unwanted behaviour continues. Your experience, triggers, beliefs, emotions, environment and the role the behaviour currently plays can all be relevant.
At HMCY, the work is personalised around you and the outcome you want to achieve. Rather than treating the behaviour as an enemy, we explore the pattern with curiosity and identify more useful ways of responding.
Throughout the process, you remain actively involved in deciding what you want to change, what feels appropriate and how you move forward.
See How Hypnotherapy Can Support Change
In this video, I explain how unwanted patterns can become established and how Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP Coaching may be used to develop greater awareness, strengthen new choices and support behavioural change.
The work is personalised to your particular pattern, circumstances and desired outcome.
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Common Questions
Answers to common questions about unwanted patterns, Clinical Hypnotherapy and how sessions at Healing Mind CY work.
