Addiction & Recovery

Addiction is not a disgrace

People with an addiction do not have lasting control over what they are doing, taking or using.

Are you or someone you care about struggling with addiction? I offer support to active addicts and their families to help find a way out of addiction and into recovery.

Are you already in recovery? I offer therapy and coaching that aligns with that healing process.

I have over thirty years experience guiding and helping addicts attain freedom from active dependency.

Addiction SOS

Addiction is not just the old man down the road who has been an alcoholic since before you were born. Or the young film stars grappling with far too accessible prescription drugs. Addiction comes in many shapes and forms, but mostly in two categories:

  • Drugs, cigarettes, vaping

    Alcohol

    Prescription medicines

  • Eating disorders

    Over exercising

    Sex and pornography addiction

    Love addiction and relationship dependence

    Out of control gambling, spending or shopping

    Internet and gaming addiction

    Workaholism

Recovery

Do you need support achieving your goals, creating meaningful structure in your life and gaining deeper self-understanding? I can help you find your own formula for success in this brave new world. Perhaps there are traumas to be healed and lost parts of yourself to reclaim. Or maybe you sense an empty hole that needs filling with meaning and purpose? 

Together we can:

  • Develop a relapse prevention plan

  • Help uncover all the hidden blocks that may have tripped you up before

  • Establish new thinking, habits and behaviours

  • Create healthy relationships

  • Set new goals for getting and living the addiction-free life you’ve dreamed of

My own journey with addiction

After losing my teenage and early 20’s to various dependencies - primarily drugs, food and alcohol - I was fortunate enough to find recovery and have been living clean and sober since 1992.

Codependency, nicotine and ‘Relationship Addiction’ took a little longer. Balance remains somewhat evasive.  

It’s been quite a journey, at times wild and unpredictable, often calm and peaceful, but always an adventure enjoyed with enormous amounts of gratitude for being free of my primary addictions. Given my passion for people, there is little that gives me more of a sense of fulfilling my life purpose than witnessing another’s, or their family’s, recovery from their own addiction nightmare.

This is why I qualified not only as a life coach, counsellor and hypnotherapist, but also specifically working with addiction and relationships. I have also found hypnotherapy to be a very useful adjunct in attaining an easier  freedom from compulsion and obsession. 

Testimonials

  • “I began attending sessions with Lisa after spending 10 years in the grip of an eating disorder. I could see no way out of it and had begun to lose hope and thought maybe this is just me and the way I am. Slowly, she guided me through the healing process and enabled me to discover and accept things about myself.

    The last few months of my life have opened up a new world to me. I feel confident, independent and most of all content and happy with life as it is. The control food had over my life seems like a distant nightmare that belongs to some other person. I had tried so many therapies and will be forever grateful for the path that led me to Lisa.”

    Sarah, Abu Dhabi

  • “When I first contacted Lisa, I was looking to try hypnosis to help me stop smoking. But as the process started, we realized that success would be difficult if some unresolved issues were not addressed first, for which Lisa came back with a plan both as a coach and a hypnotherapist. I’m truly happy to say that in no small part thanks to her, I have managed to stop smoking… and you know what? It was easy.”

    Lina, Abu Dhabi.

  • “I just wanted to get in touch and say thank you for the sessions we had. I am 7lbs away from my goal, and have not touched sugar since our first meeting on Sep 01 last year. That’s all down to you (and some small changes from me!) so thank you.”

    Caroline, Abu Dhabi

  • “Hi Lisa. I saw you in November. Haven’t smoked since. Got engaged at Christmas. You helped me keep a very important promise. Thank you very much.”

    Emmet

  • “I would recommend Lisa as a coach to change habits on alcohol and life. She is non-judgemental, non-threatening and her insights are powerful. I found I changed my habits quickly and easily with simple suggestions she made. She maintains an even balance in the coaching relationship and her suggestions and forward looking approach is very practical and revealing. ”

    Anne Dubai

Could this work for me?