Gambling Addiction Treatment

There are many types of gambling addiction from sport, horses to pokies, and no one starts out expecting to become addicted. It usually starts out as just a bit of casual entertainment but once you are hooked; you are hooked. The thing about gambling whether Lotto or Pokies is that the odds are just not in your favour. The more you play the more you lose; the odds are set up that way, the house always wins.

In Australia Pokies machines earn around ten billion dollars a year through around 200,000 machines. It is estimated that around 60% of all revenue comes from people with a gambling addiction problem. It is estimated that about 2.3% of the population has a gambling problem, that’s around half a million people and for 75% of those it is the Pokie machines.

Any addiction is a habit and gambling addiction is a habit that destroys lives and families. Another survey has suggested that for every problem gambler ten people will be affected.

We have worked with problem gamblers for horses, sport and pokies for over ten years.

Our program works to change habit patterns of the mind at a subconscious level with a weekly one hour appointment for counselling and clinical hypnotherapy.

We also have hypnosis recordings to be used between sessions. It takes four to six weeks to change habit patterns of the mind. Our sessions are one on one and confidential.

Our gambling addiction treatment is covered by some health funds.