Unlocking the Truth: Treatment for Compulsive Lying or Pathological Lying
Have you often told 'little white lies'? Has lying become an addictive habit or an effective technique to help you progress through life?
While lying may have seemed to make life easier in the past, you have probably already realised it can have a significant negative impact on loved ones, friends, colleagues and even strangers. It can ruin your career and destroy relationships. Counselling and hypnotherapy treatment can help you gain relief from compulsive lying and its causes.
If you are concerned about the role lying plays in your life, then face-to-face hypnotherapy and counselling services are available in my Melbourne clinic or online via skype.
Do I need treatment for compulsive or pathological lying?
Compulsive or pathological lying manifests for different reasons. Often compulsive lying starts during childhood as a way of coping with difficult feelings of shame or anxiety. Many compulsive liars end up telling themselves lies too.
In many cases, they believe deep down that their true self is 'not good enough' and that they are unlikely to be accepted by the people they value if they do not continue to tell lies. Over time, lying becomes and addictive habit that seems more comfortable and more normal, than telling the truth.
Admitting to a professional psychotherapist that you have a problem with compulsive lying is the first, courageous step in overcoming your problem. Counselling and hypnotherapy can help you stop lying.
As you begin to overcome the causes and habits of compulsive lying, you will notice a significant increase in your self confidence and an improvement in your relationships with others.
What can I expect from my treatment sessions?
Your counsellor takes a person centred approach to help you discover the causes of your compulsive lying without feeling excess guilt, rather than just treating the symptoms. I offer an environment that is safe, supportive, accepting and non-judgemental for you to work in. My aim is to help you achieve genuine progress.
During your first visit, you'll be able to discuss your problem in confidence, ask any questions, and decide if I am the right psychotherapist to help you. The initial session will give us an insight into the issues involved and find out what you want to achieve so I can prepare a treatment plan that is tailored to you as an individual. In some cases, compulsive lying can be managed by changing habitual thoughts and responses through hypnotherapy; thereby resolving the underlying cause of lying.
I draw upon a variety of counselling approaches and hypnotherapy treatment to assist you to overcome compulsive and pathological lying.
Depending on your individual circumstances, these natural approaches could include one or a combination of humanistic person centred therapies, Buddhist Mindfulness Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Existential, Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, dream work, NLP, hypnotherapy treatment or similar techniques.
How long will treatment for compulsive lying take?
For many people, the treatment brings about changes within the first few sessions. In the unlikely event that there is no noticeable progress in the first 3-4 sessions, then, with your permission, I will begin to introduce different techniques to address your problem. Progress can also be helped or hindered by your attitude towards resolving your lying problem, your participation and the nature of the underlying causes.
At my Brighton clinic in Melbourne, I utilise an outcome and session rating tool that allows us to measure the effectiveness of every session. This tool helps us to closely monitor your progress from your point of view and mine, and to ensure you continue to feel comfortable with your treatment.
How can I make an appointment today?
Call me now on 9530 6353 to set up your confidential appointment.
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