Support for habits that feel hard to stop

Behavioural addictions can involve patterns of behaviour that become difficult to control, even when they start causing stress, shame, relationship issues, financial problems, or disruption to everyday life.

At Recover Psychology, we work with adults who are struggling with repetitive or compulsive behaviours, including gambling, gaming, pornography use, sex-related behaviours, spending, internet use, social media, and other habits that feel difficult to manage.

Therapy can help you understand what is driving the behaviour, reduce shame, build practical strategies, and work towards change at a pace that feels realistic.

Common areas we support include:

• Gambling and betting concerns

• Gaming and internet use

• Pornography use and compulsive sexual behaviours

• Spending, shopping, and financial impulsivity

• Social media, scrolling, and phone use

• Repetitive habits that feel difficult to control

• Urges, cravings, secrecy, and shame

• Relapse prevention and maintaining change

• Anxiety, stress, low mood, and emotional regulation

• Relationship impacts and rebuilding trust

Behavioural addictions often do not exist in isolation. They can be connected with stress, boredom, loneliness, trauma, low mood, anxiety, relationship difficulties, ADHD traits, or attempts to escape uncomfortable feelings.

Therapy takes a whole-person approach, looking not just at the behaviour itself, but at the broader emotional and life context around it.