Do you experience one or more of the following?

Feeling you drink too much
Worrying about how much porn you watch
Feeling sexually compulsive or out-of-control
Worrying about your recreational drugs use
Using your devices more than you’d like to
Feeling at risk of engaging in illegal behaviours
Worrying about the type of porn you watch
Feeling disconnected from people
Feel you have a problem with Chemsex
Worrying that your problematic behaviours are escalating
Worrying you might be a sex addict
Feeling guilty or ashamed about what you’re doing
Feeling you use behaviours or substances as a form of escape

How counselling can help:

Addictions and compulsive tendencies are often misunderstood. There is often an unhelpful focus upon the person’s behaviour e.g. watching porn or drinking excessively, and less on the nature of the addiction itself and why it’s there in the first place.

Counselling can help you abstain or change your behaviours but also to understand what the addiction is about. Only the latter will ensure there is long-term and sustainable change. Early counselling sessions typically focus upon relapse prevention tools and techniques. Later sessions help you better understand how you got here in the first place which may have its origins in trauma or past relationship difficulties.

Psychoeducation, including the latest developments in neuroscience to better understand the addictive process are often helpful. This paves the way for you to develop healthier ways of managing life’s inevitable difficulties.

There is a growing consensus amongst researchers and practitioners that addictive and compulsive behaviours are learned ways of being, dispelling the myth that ‘once an addict, always an addict’. This gives a huge amount of hope for clients wanting to change their lives for good.

Do you experience one or more of the following?

Feeling you drink too much
Worrying about how much porn you watch
Feeling sexually compulsive or out-of-control
Worrying about your recreational drugs use
Using your devices more than you’d like to
Feeling at risk of engaging in illegal behaviours
Worrying about the type of porn you watch
Feeling disconnected from people
Feel you have a problem with Chemsex
Worrying that your problematic behaviours are escalating
Worrying you might be a sex addict
Feeling guilty or ashamed about what you’re doing
Feeling you use behaviours or substances as a form of escape

How counselling can help:

Addictions and compulsive tendencies are often misunderstood. There is often an unhelpful focus upon the person’s behaviour e.g. watching porn or drinking excessively, and less on the nature of the addiction itself and why it’s there in the first place.

Counselling can help you abstain or change your behaviours but also to understand what the addiction is about. Only the latter will ensure there is long-term and sustainable change. Early counselling sessions typically focus upon relapse prevention tools and techniques. Later sessions help you better understand how you got here in the first place which may have its origins in trauma or past relationship difficulties.

Psychoeducation, including the latest developments in neuroscience to better understand the addictive process are often helpful. This paves the way for you to develop healthier ways of managing life’s inevitable difficulties.

There is a growing consensus amongst researchers and practitioners that addictive and compulsive behaviours are learned ways of being, dispelling the myth that ‘once an addict, always an addict’. This gives a huge amount of hope for clients wanting to change their lives for good.