Last Updated on 16 June 2025 by Brisbane Livewell Clinic
Wondering How Hypnosis and Alcoholism are Linked?
Ready to Break Free from Alcohol? If alcohol is interfering with your health, relationships or peace of mind, you’re in the right place. Hypnotherapy offers a structured approach to help identify and change the patterns driving your drinking.
Jeremy Walker supports patients from his Wavell Heights clinic or online via videoconference. His work focuses on subconscious change, emotional awareness, and long-term behaviour shift – especially for those seeking a non-judgmental way to reduce or stop alcohol use.
What Is Hypnosis for Alcoholism?
Hypnosis for alcoholism uses guided techniques to help you access and change the subconscious beliefs, memories and emotional responses behind your drinking.
Many people drink to manage discomfort, including stress, anxiety, trauma, shame or boredom. These responses often become automatic. Hypnotherapy works to break that pattern by helping you build new emotional and behavioural responses from within.
How Hypnotherapy Works with Alcohol Habits
Jeremy guides patients into a calm, focused state where their mind becomes more receptive to change. Each session is targeted to help reduce the influence of triggers and restore control over drinking.
Common techniques include:
Reframing beliefs such as “I need alcohol to relax”
Addressing unresolved emotional drivers
Strengthening confidence and resilience
Practising new reactions to old triggers
Subconscious Triggers and Emotional Patterns
Alcohol is often used to avoid emotional discomfort. Over time, the mind creates connections between stress and drinking, social settings and alcohol, or boredom and substance use.
Jeremy helps patients identify these subconscious associations and resolve the emotional discomfort underneath them. When those feelings are addressed directly, the drive to drink often reduces naturally.
What to Expect in a Hypnotherapy Session
Your first session includes a detailed consultation about your alcohol use, past experiences, and goals. Jeremy then guides you through a structured Hypnotherapy process.
Sessions may involve:
Exploring emotional origins of alcohol habits
Guided mental rehearsal of new responses
Positive suggestions that strengthen decision-making
Visualisation techniques to support a sense of calm and self-control
Sessions are comfortable, confidential and fully tailored to you.
Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Alcohol Use
Patients who work with Jeremy for alcohol support often report:
Reduced cravings
Stronger self-awareness
Improved emotional regulation
Better boundaries in social or family settings
Increased confidence in maintaining change
These changes tend to build session by session, forming the foundation for long-term behaviour change.
About Jeremy Walker
Jeremy Walker is an experienced Hypnotherapist at Brisbane Livewell Clinic Wavell Heights. He also sees patients online via videoconference.
Jeremy is the author of Freedom from Addiction – a practical guide for understanding and changing compulsive patterns. He has also recently published the companion book, Freedom from Anxiety.
Jeremy’s therapy process draws on both Hypnotherapy and Mindset Therapy to help patients move beyond resistance, avoidance and internal conflict.
His work is ideal for patients who want a structured, emotionally aware process to understand why they drink and how to stop.
Mindset Therapy Available as an Alternative
If you’re not ready for Hypnotherapy or prefer to begin with conscious conversation, Jeremy offers Mindset Therapy. This is a non-hypnotic process designed to explore emotional patterns and shift behaviour gently over time.
Some patients begin with Mindset Therapy before progressing to Hypnotherapy once trust and clarity have been established.
Patient Case Study
Patient: Male, 44
Background: Daily alcohol use after work, increasing to weekends. Triggers included stress, loneliness and low self-worth.
Approach: Six Hypnotherapy sessions plus follow-up Mindset Therapy.
Outcome: Patient reduced alcohol intake by 80%, re-engaged with exercise, and developed improved coping strategies for stress.
In Our Experience
In the Experience of Our Practitioner
“Alcohol is often used to escape pain – but once that pain is understood and processed, the need for alcohol drops away. Hypnotherapy gives patients tools to do that safely and calmly.”
Jeremy Walker, Hypnotherapist at Brisbane Livewell Clinic Wavell Heights
In the Experience of Our Patients
“After years of trying to control my drinking with willpower, I realised I needed a different approach. Jeremy helped me understand what I was actually trying to avoid. Once we worked through that, I didn’t need the alcohol anymore.”
Nicole S., Patient
Booking Options with Jeremy Walker
Appointments are available at Brisbane Livewell Clinic Wavell Heights or online via videoconference.
Jeremy offers one-on-one sessions tailored to your needs, whether you want to reduce alcohol, stop completely, or explore the emotional patterns behind your habits.
You do not need a referral, however Jeremy is open to a referral from your GP or Specialist if you would prefer. Hypnosis sessions are confidential and based on fostering trust, clarity and lasting change.
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