Take back the choice
Confidential, judgement-free therapy for dependency, loosening the grip of the habit and rebuilding your trust in yourself.
Compassionate Help for Dependency & Compulsive Behaviours
Whether it is alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography or overspending, dependency can feel impossible to escape. Please know this: it is not a weakness, and it can be overcome. With caring, confidential support, you can understand what drives it and take back control of your life.
Dependency is rarely about the substance alone
Whether related to alcohol, gambling, pornography, drugs or other behaviours, dependencies are driven by similar compulsive urges. These are frequently rooted in deeper psychological and emotional needs, and are shaped by environment, past trauma and personal experience. That is why understanding the root, not just the behaviour, matters so much.
By combining hypnotherapy, counselling and CBT, we offer a powerful, integrated approach, helping you understand the causes of your dependency and equipping you with the strategies to overcome it, for lasting recovery and resilience.
Support for a range of dependencies
How therapy helps you regain control
Hypnotherapy and counselling are powerful tools for changing your mindset, developing healthier coping mechanisms, and gaining control over cravings. Together, subconscious work and practical guidance support real, long-term recovery.
They address the root causes, exploring the emotional issues or trauma often driving the behaviour. They reduce cravings and triggers, helping reprogram the subconscious while teaching practical ways to cope. And they build self-esteem and resilience, so you feel empowered to make healthier choices and stay committed to your recovery.
Break the cycle, and prevent relapse
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is highly effective for managing dependency. It helps you recognise and change the negative thought patterns and behaviours that drive the habit, and identify the triggers and emotional responses behind it.
CBT teaches practical techniques to handle cravings, reduce impulsive behaviours, and replace them with constructive alternatives. It also focuses on relapse prevention, helping you understand the situations or emotions that raise the risk, and build a personalised plan to handle those moments with confidence.
No one sets out for this
No one sets out to become dependent on drugs or alcohol. Most often, substances become a way to mask or escape emotional or physical pain. Yet rather than making problems go away, they tend to make them worse, affecting health, and affecting the people around you too.
If you are finding you need drugs or alcohol to get through the day, or to cope with stress, hypnotherapy and counselling can help. We offer confidential, caring treatment, in person in Fareham or online across the UK.
Help for problem spending
You may have a problem with spending if you buy things to feel better, to fill something that feels missing, or to feel loved and cared for. Over time, that can chip away at your sense of rationality around money.
The immediate lift from spending can far outweigh the consequences, debt, guilt, shame, or hiding purchases and statements. If that feels familiar, hypnotherapy, counselling and CBT can help you understand the pattern and gently change it.
Award-winning care from people who understand
Voted Hypnotherapy & Counselling Centre of the Year, with over two decades of experience helping people break free and rebuild their lives.
Dependency therapy FAQs
Can therapy really help with dependency?
Yes. Hypnotherapy, counselling and CBT all help, by addressing the root causes, reducing cravings and triggers, and building the coping skills and resilience that support lasting recovery. We tailor everything to you, and results vary from person to person.
Will I be judged?
Never. Dependency is not a weakness or a moral failing, it is usually a way of coping with deeper pain. Our therapists are warm and completely non-judgemental, and everything you share is confidential.
Should I also seek medical support?
For some dependencies, particularly alcohol and drugs, it is important to involve your GP or a medical service, especially where physical withdrawal may be a factor. We are very happy to work alongside your medical care as part of your recovery.
Which therapy is right for me?
You do not have to work that out alone. During your free consultation we listen to what you are going through, then guide you to the most suitable approach, or combination, for you and how you like to work.
How many sessions will I need?
It varies from person to person, depending on your situation. We will give you an honest, realistic idea at your free consultation so you know what to expect from the start.
Can I have sessions online?
Yes. You can be seen in person at our Fareham practice or online from anywhere in the UK. Many people find online sessions a comfortable, private way to take part, from the calm of their own home.
A different future is possible
Book a free, no-obligation consultation and we will gently talk through how we can help you take back control. Every call and message is completely confidential.
Prefer to talk first? Call 0800 970 4776 or email hello@oliptherapy.co.uk