01/06/2026
07 August, 2026 – Working With Addiction and Dependency Patterns in Hypnotherapy Practice
CPD Event title: Working With Addiction and Dependency Patterns in Hypnotherapy Practice
Brief Description Of Event:
A Half-Day Zoom Workshop for Hypnotherapists and Students
Clearer boundaries. Better questions. Safer practice.
Date: Aug 07, 2026. Time: 09:30 – 13.30 BST
Would you know how to respond if a client disclosed that alcohol, drugs, gambling, compulsive behaviours, or other coping patterns had become part of the way they switch off, manage emotions, escape stress, or get through the week?
Many hypnotherapists will encounter clients where alcohol use, drug use, gambling, compulsive online behaviours, compulsive shopping, or other dependency-related patterns form part of the wider presenting picture.
This practical and thought-provoking half-day workshop has been created to help hypnotherapists and students feel clearer and more confident when addiction, dependency, or compulsive coping patterns show up in the therapy room.
This is not a workshop about detox, rehab, or working outside your role. Instead, it is designed to help you understand where hypnotherapy can genuinely support change, how to work more effectively with these presentations, and what to look out for when habits, urges, routines, emotional coping, compulsive behaviours, or dependency-related patterns are present.
This workshop does not train practitioners to diagnose addiction or manage medical withdrawal, and clear guidance around referral, safeguarding, and professional boundaries will be discussed throughout.
Drawing from an integrative and solution focused hypnotherapy perspective, this training will explore how to work with the underlying patterns that can keep clients stuck, including repetition, relief-seeking, shame, avoidance, and behavioural loops.
You will also gain a simple and practical understanding of why addiction and dependency-related patterns can become so difficult to shift, including the role of habit, reward, learned association, emotional regulation, and the brain’s tendency to repeat what brings short-term relief or escape.
Throughout the workshop, we will stay grounded in clear, realistic, and professional practice, helping you feel more confident in how to approach this area in a way that is useful, thoughtful, and appropriate.
You will also receive a pre-workshop workbook to help you begin thinking about the topic before the day, along with a large post-workshop resource pack filled with step-by-step explanations, tools, techniques, therapeutic language, guidance, and useful resources to support your learning afterwards.
Work More Confidently Within Scope
Gain clarity on what is appropriate to work with as a hypnotherapist when addiction, dependency, or compulsive coping patterns are involved, and feel more confident in how to approach these conversations and presentations.
Understand the Pattern Beneath the Behaviour
Explore why people can become stuck in cycles of use, including habit loops, reward, relief, emotional coping, and the role of repetition.
Know What to Look For
Learn what to pay attention to during the initial consultation, including patterns, red flags, and the wider picture that may be sitting behind the presenting issue.
Use Solution Focused and Integrative Tools More Effectively
Discover practical ways to structure sessions, ask better questions, and use hypnosis more effectively when working with urges, routines, coping patterns, and behavioural repetition.
Leave With Tools You Can Use Straight Away
Come away with practical ideas, therapeutic language, clinical guidance, techniques, and resources that can support your work in both online and face-to-face practice.
Learning Objectives:
What You Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will have a clearer understanding of:
What is and is not appropriate to work with as a hypnotherapist.
How to recognise red flags and when extra support may be needed.
How to structure the initial consultation when substance use, dependency, compulsive behaviours, or coping patterns are disclosed.
How to use solution focused questioning more effectively in this area.
How to work with urges, routines, coping patterns, and future change using hypnotherapy.
How to use language and therapeutic tools that support change without confrontation or shame.
How to feel more confident and grounded when this kind of presentation appears in practice.
What We’ll Cover
The difference between habit, coping pattern, harmful use, addiction, and dependency.
How alcohol use, drug use, gambling, compulsive online behaviours, compulsive shopping, and other repetitive coping behaviours can become linked with relief, avoidance, identity, and repetition.
The role of the brain, reward, emotional regulation, and reinforcement in repeated behaviours and use patterns.
What to notice and explore during the initial consultation.
Solution focused questions that are genuinely...
CPD Event title: Working With Addiction and Dependency Patterns in Hypnotherapy Practice Brief Description Of Event: A Half-Day Zoom Workshop for Hypnotherapists and StudentsClearer boundaries. Better questions. Safer practice. Date: Aug 07, 2026. Time: 09:30 - 13.30 BST Would you know how to resp