Hypnotherapy acts quickly to help achieve the crucial turning point for someone looking to embrace a new direction in their life. During the hypnotherapy process, I work with clients to identify a step-by-step plan to allow them to generate a steady flow of seratonin so they’re not reliant on a ‘quick fix’ of dopamine to try and fix their mood.

And, of course, we recognise that the ‘quick dopamine fixes’ tend to result in cravings for more of the same and a decrease in energy levels. Unfortunately, these negative effects run alongside a spiralling addiction to whatever it is that is providing false comfort to a client (such as drinking alcohol, smoking or over-eating).

A recent article in the Evening Standard described how hypnotherapy helped the writer of the article to overcome their ‘binge drinking’ tendencies. 

The article noted how the lockdowns had resulted in an increase in people turning to alcohol for solace. It is perhaps not surprising that the primitive brain (with its prime goal of keeping you safe in a crisis situation) will try to deal with the issues it faces with a quick fix of dopamine. 

Online hypnotherapy allows a way forward by helping reduce a client’s stress bucket levels to a point whereby the intellectual brain can take full control over the primitive brain’s responses to perceived stress.

When this ‘transfer of power’ happens between the two parts of the brain, then clients really start to notice positive improvements in their lives and, crucually, in their ability to reject the things that used to offer false comfort.