Bernadette Bustin CPsychol; AFBPsS
Chartered Psychologist
Counselling Psychologist
Serving Brecon and surrounding areas and UK-wide online
Psychological Therapy
for Addiction
and Compulsive Behaviour
Are you wondering if talking to someone would help?
Perhaps you're stuck or struggling to see a way forward from an addictive behaviour or a repeating pattern that you don't understand. You might have tried to make changes by yourself but found that you just don't stick to them.
This can be a frustrating and upsetting place to be and can feel very lonely. You may be hiding your behaviours and masking how you feel from people around you.
You might start to doubt your value, competence and hopes for the future. Overthinking, anxiety, emotional outbursts, depression or anger can then start to increase - as well as your addictive behaviour.
"I'm not someone who likes to ask for help"
Even if we are used to being seen as strong and independent, no one can resolve everything for themselves all the time. We might believe that we ‘should be able to deal with this on our own’. But there comes a point where our established patterns of living, relating and coping are either overwhelmed by current circumstances or are just not letting us move on to the life that we want.
Working with a qualified psychological therapist can help you to find a path forward - possibly in ways that you had not thought of before. A path unique to you - your history, your circumstances and your hopes for the future.
I'm Bernadette Bustin, a fully qualified chartered psychologist and counselling psychologist
I work with adults of any age as well as older adolescents, and specialise in issues relating to every kind of addiction or compulsive behaviour. I have particular expertise in resolving these issues where ADHD or trauma are also present.
I help people to:
Overcome substance addictions
Such as alcohol, drugs and food as well as behavioural addictions such as pornography, gambling and internet addictions so that they gain freedom from the emotional, financial, career and relational consequences of these behaviours.
Find, and benefit from, the strengths in their ADHD tendencies
I devise strategies to help them thrive in a world designed for neuro-typical people.
Resolve specific past traumas
And also the complex trauma from the ongoing experience of being 'ADHD different' in a neuro-typical culture.
Transform the anger, low self-esteem, emotional extremes, anxiety and depression
Associated with having an addiction and/or having ADHD.
Alcohol Street-Drugs Eating Sex Porn Gambling Shopping Exercise Gaming Self-harm Social-media Love Food Nicotine Prescription-Drugs Work Inhalants Loot-boxes & Skins Marijuana Caffeine Plastic-surgery Smart-phones Tattoos Risky-activities Vomiting Hoarding ...
A Perspective on Addiction
Despite what you might have read, or even what you might believe, people struggling with addictions and compulsive behaviours are not diseased, weak-willed, self-indulgent or in denial.
It is more accurate to say that addictions develop over time from a complex interplay of wide-ranging factors.
Book a free consultation
I offer a free 15 - 30 minute introductory video consultation to help you decide if therapy with me is right for you at this time.