Addiction Therapy

Addiction therapy is a process in which we will work together to understand how your current life circumstances, your history and experiences, your habits and your natural traits have come together so that you find yourself not being adequately in control of your choices and behaviours. With this understanding of you as a unique individual, along with knowledge of how addiction works neurologically in the brain, and drawing on evidence-based methods, we will then co-create a plan that will work for you.

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of individual therapy is gaining insight into, and then overcoming, exactly what combination of factors made you susceptible to developing the addictive behaviour. This will help us to anticipate what could make it harder for you to give it up and what might make you more vulnerable to going back to it even though you don’t want to. In this way, we will build a comprehensive and robust plan that will make life easier in the short term and, in the longer term, give you the resilience to keep taking your life forward towards your goals and values.

The particular combination of therapeutic approaches will be individual for each person but are likely to include some cognitive and behavioural methods to develop beneficial structures. This will be complemented by approaches that explore, uncover and lead to positive change in how you understand yourself; in your confidence to make the transformations you want and in your resilience to maintain those changes.

This personal growth is achieved through approaches from the Memory Reconsolidation branch of psychology such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Coherence Therapy (CT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

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