25 Apr Help with Substance Abuse: Support for High-Profile Professionals
Help with Substance Abuse: Support for High-Profile Professionals and Celebrities
In 2025, the pressures of modern life are more intense than ever—especially for high-profile professionals and celebrities and many are seeking help with substance abuse. Behind the curated social media feeds and polished public appearances, many are silently battling substance abuse as a form of escapism. If this is your reality, you are not alone—and support is available. I have been there and come out the other side.
My Journey
By aged 13 I was abusing alcohol, and by aged 15, a prolific raver, I was also abusing drugs. For over 2 decades I would consider myself a regular, functioning abuser of my body through drugs and alcohol. I was taking cocaine and ecstasy most weekends and smoking weed to knock myself out at bedtime every night, often combined with a concoction of sleeping tablets and alcohol.
I sought help with substance abuse and now I sleep soundly at night, completely naturally and have no need to seek escapism through alcohol and drugs. It was a combination of hypnotherapy and Inner Child Healing combined with learning practical techniques to navigate and process emotions that got me where I am today after decades of abuse. EFT was the game changer for me emotional management and resilience.
Why Success Doesn’t Equal Immunity
The expectation to perform, deliver, and maintain a perfect image can lead to chronic stress, burnout, and emotional dysregulation. Generation X professionals, often juggling caregiving, career, and unresolved trauma, are particularly at risk—especially those who may be neurodivergent. Many with undiagnosed ADHD use substances to self-medicate overstimulation, executive dysfunction, or emotional overwhelm.
How Hypnotherapy and Coaching Can Help with Substance Abuse
I offer discreet, tailored hypnotherapy and coaching for high-functioning professionals struggling with substance use. These sessions work beneath the surface to reprogram subconscious triggers, heal core wounds, and build healthier coping strategies.
5 Practical Tips to Start Managing Substance Use Now
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- Identify Your Triggers: Notice when you crave substances—is it after stress, overstimulation, or a performance? Awareness is step one.
- Keep a Diary: A simple app to monitor daily mood e.g. will help identify your ‘cycle’. Perhaps you can go through 6-12 weeks clean, before ‘falling off the band wagon’ and having a blow-out.
- Create a Calming Ritual: Replace the substance with a daily practice like breathwork, music, or guided hypnosis to down-regulate your nervous system. EFT is a simple tapping technique I teach for emotional regulation.
- Reach Out Confidentially: You don’t have to do this alone. A safe, judgment-free space can make all the difference. Admitting you have problems with substance abuse is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength, and is a step towards accountability.
- Be Curious: And write a list. What are the limiting beliefs you hold around yourself, and substances? E.g. I need substances to have a good time. If I can’t control my substance use, I’m a failure.
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How I help my clients
When I’m working with anyone who has compulsive behaviours around food, alcohol, drugs, sex or gambling, we always focus on the gains and not losses. Focussing on losses in my opinion = failure because the subconscious mind seeks to ‘find’ what it has lost. For example, if someone links substance use to fun, then letting go of substance abuse is also letting go of fun, which let’s face it no one wants to lose ‘fun’ from their life.
A gain could look like the quality of life one would have without the substance abuse, the things they could do with their weekends…. maybe take up a new hobby like paddle boarding, golf or hiking. So, another exercise I get my clients to do is write a list of all the gains of letting go of the behaviour, and to use that list as a screensaver on their phone.
If you’re looking for help with substance abuse that honours your high-performance lifestyle and neurodivergent mind, book a confidential session with me here. Let’s create lasting change—without shame, and at your pace.
Or contact me here: https://rebeccadakin.com/
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