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Do you find yourself drinking more than you would like, or struggling to stop once you start? At Canberra Hypnotherapy Clinic we offer a compassionate, non-judgemental path to regaining control and changing your relationship with alcohol for good.
Alcohol dependence rarely arrives all at once. It builds gradually, blending social drinking with emotional reliance until it becomes hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. It can affect anyone, at any age and from any background, and it is often tangled up with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or grief that was never fully dealt with. Over time, alcohol stops being a choice and starts being a coping mechanism.
That is the part hypnotherapy works on. Rather than relying on willpower to hold a line, we work with the subconscious patterns underneath the drinking — the triggers, the emotional associations, the automatic reach for a glass at a particular hour or after a particular kind of day. Here is how hypnotherapy works if you have not come across it before.
Suddenly stopping after a long period of heavy drinking can be medically dangerous, and in some cases life-threatening. It is not something to do on your own or on the strength of a hypnotherapy session. If you drink heavily or daily, please speak to your GP about how to withdraw safely before you change anything — and then hypnotherapy can do its work alongside that medical support.
This is a non-clinical service. We don’t diagnose or treat alcohol dependence medically, and we are glad to work alongside your GP, your psychologist or a drug and alcohol service rather than in place of them. If you need to talk to someone today, the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is 1800 250 015, free and open 24 hours.
Free 20-minute consults can be booked by phone, text or message — no obligation, no pressure
Most people who come to us aren’t only worried about the drinking itself — it’s everything around it that has started to give way.
Drinking causes conflict at home and at work, and the guilt that follows makes the next drink more likely, not less. Repairing that trust is often what people want most.
Long-term drinking affects the liver, the immune system and sleep, leaving you tired and unwell. Many of those effects do improve once the drinking changes — your doctor is the right person to track that.
Alcohol pulls mood around, often making anxiety, low mood and irritability worse rather than better. Working on what sits underneath the reliance tends to steady all of it.
Dependence clouds judgement and flattens motivation, at work and at home. Clients regularly describe the return of mental clarity as the first thing they notice.
The cost adds up quietly and quickly. As the drinking changes, a good number of clients find the relief is financial as well as emotional.
The hours spent drinking, and the hours spent recovering from it, compound across months and years. Breaking the pattern gives those evenings and weekends back.
Call or text Stella on 0421 206 918, or send a message and we’ll come back to you.
Spiro Apostolopoulos and Stella Jones are Clinical Hypnotherapists, Strategic Psychotherapists and NLP Master Practitioners, and have been working with Canberrans on addiction since 2012. Sessions work at the subconscious level, where the cravings, the emotional associations and the habitual stress responses around alcohol are held, and we move through a structured process that takes those patterns apart and builds something better in their place.
Whether your goal is to stop completely or to get back to a mindful, balanced relationship with alcohol, the work is shaped around your situation rather than run from a template. Meet Spiro and Stella →
Your first session starts with a private conversation about your history, your triggers and what you actually want to be different. From there your therapist guides you into a deeply relaxed but alert state, where the subconscious mind is far more open to change. Together we identify the patterns driving the drinking, reframe them, and build up your own sense of control.
Each session builds on the last, you leave with practical tools and a recorded audio to use in between, and online sessions by secure video are available anywhere in Australia. See what to expect from your first visit →
Call or text Stella on 0421 206 918, or send a message and we’ll come back to you.
It can work well, because it goes after the part willpower can’t reach. Habits and emotional responses are held subconsciously, and that is the level hypnosis works at. We combine clinical hypnosis, strategic psychotherapy and NLP to surface and reframe the patterns feeding the drinking. Clients commonly describe clearer thinking, steadier emotions and real confidence in their own choices again.
How well it works does depend on the person and the situation, which is exactly what the free consult is for — we would rather be honest with you up front than promise something we can’t deliver.
Hypnotherapy itself is safe and drug-free in the hands of qualified practitioners. Withdrawal is the part that needs care: if you have been drinking heavily or daily, stopping abruptly can be medically dangerous, so please talk to your GP about doing it safely rather than going cold turkey before an appointment. Hypnotherapy then supports that process rather than substituting for it.
No. This is a non-clinical service — we don’t diagnose or medically treat alcohol dependence. What we do is work on the patterns and the emotional drivers behind it, and we are glad to do that alongside your GP, your psychologist or a specialist service. Many clients work with us and with them at the same time, which is often the strongest combination.
It varies. Some clients notice meaningful change within a few sessions; others want longer-term support, particularly where the drinking has been doing a job for a long time. Every session is tailored to the person, so we will give you an honest sense of it at your free consult rather than selling you a package before we have met. We also teach self-hypnosis so you can reinforce the work between appointments.
That depends entirely on your goal, and it is your goal to set. Some clients choose to stop completely. Others want to get back to drinking moderately and by choice rather than by habit. We work towards whichever outcome genuinely supports your health — and if your doctor has advised you not to drink at all, we work with that.
Not from us. What you share in a session stays between you and your therapist, and we don’t contact anyone else about your care without your consent, other than in the rare circumstances the law requires. Plenty of clients come to us precisely because they want to deal with this privately.
Yes. We run secure online sessions for clients across Australia, including the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and further afield. They carry the same personalised guidance as sitting in the room with us, and some people find it easier to talk about drinking from their own home.
That describes a lot of the people who walk through our door. Willpower, medication and talk therapy all work on the conscious level, and the drinking isn’t being driven from there. Hypnotherapy engages the subconscious directly, which is why it often gets somewhere when other approaches have stalled. It is also not a reason to abandon what is already helping — we are happy to add to it.
Call Stella for a free 20-minute consult — no obligation, no judgement, and nothing you say goes any further.
Monday – Friday, 10:00am – 6:00pm · 42 Geils Court, Deakin ACT 2600 · online Australia-wide
We're confident you'll benefit from hypnotherapy, so we'd like to offer you a free 20-minute discovery call to see if it feels right for you.
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