Our specialism is working with people in "active" addiction and helping them to get better. We also provide the best ongoing support and aftercare to ensure you keep getting better. Geting better is a process - not an event!

Would you like to meet someone who has already overcome addiction to speak to you impartially about the various options open to you? I have on my team lots of different specialists who are "recovered" in their own words and who now peer-mentor people with addiction issues - this is a much more cost effective long term solution. If you are interested then email me. mark@markthehypnotherapist.com

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Has your search for help and  information about addiction been confusing?

"These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely."  George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Sometimes people use legal and illegal drugs (like Prozac, cocaine, alcohol and heroin) to help cope with adverse life situations. This is neither "bad" nor "good" - it just is. Is addiction an ethical issue? A medical issue? Or a person issue?

Mark and the team thinks and feels it is a person issue and that is why we work with people "in active addiction", in "recovery" and with people who are unsure if their addiction is actually an addiction.

We care about the people!

We also work confidentially with partners and family members of those affected by addiction.

ADDICTION ISSUES:

May include, Alcohol dependency, benzodiazepine, cannabis, codependency, cocaine, crack cocaine, crystal meth, eating disorders, ecstasy, gambling, heroin (smoking & injecting), ketamine, methadone, methamphetamine, opiates, overeating, poly drug use, prescription drug use, sex addiction and normally is a combination of two or more of the above.

COMPLETE ANONYMITY IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL ADDICTION TREATMENT

Mark and his team have worked with people from all walks of life with addiction issues - from homelessness to rock stars, royalty to sex workers, "normal jobs" to city whiz kids.

Addiction is the one thing that Mark and his team have found that does not discriminate in regards to age, sex, culture or social class.

 Addiction once it takes hold of someone is real and needs lots of ongoing support if it is to be addressed successfully.

There are many different definitions of addiction - chemical - disease - social - genetic - self identity - excessive appetite - choice - synthetic - attachment -  etc etc and to be honest the definition is not that important.

The person is the "thing" that is important.

And normally there is more than one person involved and that is why Mark and his team also offer advice and support for family members, parents, partners and anyone else affected by the person who currently has addiction issues.

Mark has worked in both residential treatment and therapeutic aftercare and has helped hundreds of people just like you to get better.

Why have Mark and his team been so successful?

• Because we understand what people are going through and we co-create each intervention based on what you need to get better. 
• assessment - Professional ongoing treatment planning - diagnosis and direction.
• uncovering core values -
• looking at what motivates people -
• strengthening their resources (internal and external) -
• helping people to understand their current reward system -
• creating a social support system -
• helping people to choose maturity -
• setting constructive co-created goals and exploring spirituality -
• providing ongoing support for as long as someone needs it.
• External verification - letting people create the markers that will let them know they do not have an addiction issue anymore.

We do all this by being there and listening, by having one of the most knowledgable teams in regards to addiction and by actually caring about whether people get better or not.

We get paid by results - we are privately funded and we do not want to become part of a system that collects statistics and ticks boxes. We are people working with people who believe that we make a difference for real.

Addiction work for Mark and his team is not a job or career - it is a vocation. We are passionate about helping people get better and we know people just like you can create a better life and overcome addiction.

Mark co-managed one of the most successful drug projects in the UK and then left to continue helping people using a blend of talking, listening and a co-created treatment plan.

Also because we are not as bothered about profit concerns and statutory funding opportunities we can tailor the treatment plan to what you want, what you can afford and for as long as you need.

There is no 6 session cut off - or 12 week success rate - we can provide what you need to help you on your journey of getting better.

Mark has helped hundreds of people overcome their different addictions and can help you or your loved ones get better.

I am borrowing and bastardising Dr Schaler's advice: "Watch the Wizard of Oz, the original version with Judy Garland. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion all symbolise parts of you. You're suffering, in part, because you imagine there's a wizard (or substance)out there who is eventually going to give you what you think you need - a home, a brain, a heart, and courage.

That's all a myth,maya or illusion as the Buddhists would say (you can never get enough of what you don't need).

There are a few good magicians and wizards out there and I am lucky to have known some of them. What makes a good magician or wizard is that when you have conversations with them you realise that everything you've ever really been searching for is already within you.

The rest is up to you. The more responsibility you take for your own actions the more freedom you take too. You hold your life in your own hands.

What you do with it is your choice!"

Good luck on your journey - Mark Stipanovsky (italics mine)