A category of everyday change

Hypnotherapy for habits and change

From smoking, drinking and emotional eating to nail-biting, procrastination, excessive screen time, pornography, shopping, gambling, constant hand washing or other habits that feel difficult to control, many unwanted behaviours happen almost automatically. Hypnotherapy helps address the subconscious patterns that keep them going, allowing change to feel more natural and less like a constant battle with yourself.

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Why this category exists

Habits form below conscious awareness, so that is where we work.

A habit rarely begins as a decision you keep making. It becomes automatic: reached for without thought, in response to a particular mood, moment or trigger. That is precisely why willpower alone can feel so unreliable, and why the same promises to yourself can be so hard to keep.

Hypnotherapy addresses the subconscious associations underneath the habit itself, helping you build calmer, healthier automatic responses in their place. The pages below cover some of the most common habits and changes clients bring to me, from stopping smoking to changing your relationship with food or alcohol.

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Habits and change: further reading.

Stop smoking

Work with the automatic routines and associations behind smoking or vaping, without relying on willpower alone.

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Stop smoking with Todacitan and hypnotherapy

If you and your doctor have chosen Todacitan® as part of your plan, hypnotherapy may offer complementary support. An English translation of the leaflet is also available for your convenience.

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Hypnotherapy for weight loss

The ShapeShift Hypnosis programme looks beyond diets to explore triggers, cravings, habits and beliefs around food and your body.

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Hypnotherapy for alcohol overuse

Whether your goal is cutting down or stopping, we can explore what alcohol has been doing for you and find healthier ways to meet that need.

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Looking for something else?

Browse every issue hypnotherapy may help with.

Habits and change is one of several areas where hypnotherapy may help. If your concern sits elsewhere, or you would simply like to see everything in one place, the full overview brings all current topics together.

See everything hypnotherapy may help with

Ready to talk it through?

Let’s have a chat first.

I can explain everything and you can ask me any questions you like, whichever habit or change you would like support with.

Contact Kathleen
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Qualified and accredited hypnotherapist