Addictions

Start with what a dependence is not: a character flaw, or a willpower that simply needs strengthening. Research describes addiction as learning — a behaviour rewarded often enough to become automatic, and kept in place because it still performs a service: easing a tension, filling a gap, giving the evening its shape. That service explains why the habit is so tenacious, and why the decision to "just stop" rarely holds on its own. Honesty applies to the tools too: outside tobacco, the specific evidence for hypnosis in addiction remains limited, and no serious practitioner will promise release in a single session. What the work offers is a structured way of reaching the part willpower reaches badly — the automatic layer.

Everything begins with an anamnesis — a first session of roughly ninety minutes to two hours — to map without judgment: what the dependence calms, avoids or replaces, the triggers, the moments, what comes before and what comes after. The work then turns to those exact situations. Medical hypnosis is used to rehearse them in a calm, focused state — the end of the day without the drink, the phone left where it is, the craving that rises, peaks and falls without being obeyed — until the body knows other routes. Steps are agreed together and sized to hold; slips are treated as what they are: information about what still needs work, not a verdict. Session length varies with what a session holds.

One boundary matters here more than anywhere, and stating it is part of taking you seriously: severe dependence on a substance — alcohol, medication, drugs — belongs first to medical care, and some withdrawals should not be attempted without medical supervision. This work accompanies that care; it does not replace it. The goal is not a life without craving — no craving disappears on command — but a craving that no longer decides for you, and days that take their shape back without it.