Treatments Archives - Andrew M Richardson

Relationship Tools

Communication Guidelines

Be calm – and so have awareness and if needed, ask for time outs.
Be specific – avoid generalisations.
Avoid blame and who is right discussions
Acknowledge your partners feelings and point of view
Speak non-defensively by changing your mindset of your partner
Use your imagination to creatively put yourself in your partner’s place.
Be accountable for the things you say and do
Stay with the recent past when you talk about your problems.
Catch your partner doing something right and give them credit for it.
Find pleasurable activities to do together

Addictions can be destroyers of lives by striking at the heart of self confidence and affecting your capacity to live a life that works. So why does your addiction strike so hard and why is your willpower so weak. And how do you move on to a better life? [Continue reading]

Addiction Treatment

For all addiction treatment, the powerful emotion anticipating the pleasure from indulging must be weakened and replaced by healthier motivation. Sometimes this can be quickly achieved but at other times, one must go slowly. [Continue reading]

Substance Abuse

Drug addiction is what most of us think of when we think of addiction. And this is understandable because there is a physical dimension – the addiction is not just psychological but has physical effects. [Continue reading]

Binge Activities

Bingeing is typically understood in terms of either alcohol or eating. In fact there are differences between the two. For binge drinking, the setting is typically in public and so there is a social dimension. Eating disorders by contrast are normally a solitary pursuit. And while eating disorders can be hidden from public scrutiny (for a time at least), binge drinking is often fuelled by social anxieties. [Continue reading]

Smoking Cessation

Although the physical addictive impact of nicotine is pretty high, smoking cessation can normally be achieved quite quickly using hypnotherapy. [Continue reading]

Weight Loss

Weight loss has become a factor in many of our lives – from simply wishing to lose a few pounds … and all the way up to a chronic and unfulfilled desire for major change to body shape and image. [Continue reading]

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

OCD, Obsessive and Eating disorders begin as an addiction like response to a life where needs are not being met and in all likelihood also, there is trauma and extreme anxieties that cannot be controlled. [Continue reading]

Compulsions

We all have compulsions – which are patterns and habits and moods and motivations, which when we think about them, don’t make much sense. For many, these can be a little odd or annoying. But for others, they can take over and destroy lives. So what can be done?
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Addiction Case Studies

These case studies are representative of the many addicted clients that have seen me over the last few years. In all cases, names and other details have been changed to preserve complete anonymity. [Continue reading]