Something has to change. You just haven’t found the right approach yet.

A programme for people who have tried to stop the behaviour — and are ready to understand what’s been driving it all along.

Something has to change. You just haven’t found the right approach yet.

A programme for people who have tried to stop the behaviour — and are ready to understand what’s been driving it all along.

Why Most Approaches Don’t Create Lasting Change

Here at The Circuit Break Programme, we understand that most approaches focus on stopping the behaviour. But the behaviour isn’t the problem — it’s the response to one. It’s meeting a need. Until you understand what that need is and where it came from, long-term change is rarely possible.

How The Circuit Break Programme Actually Works

Understand

We work with you to identify the root cause behind the behaviour — the emotional driver that’s been running beneath the surface, often for years.

Interrupt

Using the Addict Brain framework and structured therapeutic tools, we help you recognise unhealthy patterns in real time and begin breaking their hold at the source.

Rebuild

Supported by both a dedicated therapist and a Programme Guide, you build a relationship with yourself that no longer needs the behaviour to cope.

The Programme Overview

The Circuit Break Programme is made up of six structured modules, each one building on the last. Unlike approaches that focus on managing behaviour, every module is designed to take you deeper into understanding what has been driving it. You work through the content at your own pace, supported by a dedicated therapist and a Programme Guide throughout. You do not need to be abstinent to begin. For some people, the goal is complete abstinence. For others, it is regaining control — being able to choose when and whether they use, rather than feeling driven to. As the programme addresses what has been driving the behaviour, the need to use in order to manage emotions often naturally reduces. The programme meets you at your goal, not ours.

Who This Is For

For the person ready to change

You don’t need a label, a diagnosis, or a reason that sounds serious enough. You don’t need to have lost everything. If there’s a behaviour you keep returning to, even when you don’t want to — something that’s taken up more space than you want it to — that’s enough. The Circuit Break Programme is for people who have managed their symptoms and are ready to understand what’s actually driving the behaviour. Alongside weekly sessions with your dedicated therapist and Programme Guide, you’ll also have access to a private community, therapist-led group sessions, educational video content, and continuously updated resources and tools. You don’t need to have already stopped to get started. The programme is designed to work alongside real life.

For the family standing beside them

When someone close to you is caught in a pattern they can’t seem to break, it can feel impossible to know how to help — and well-meaning support can sometimes make things harder without either of you realising it. The Circuit Break Programme includes a dedicated private community for families: weekly therapist-led sessions, educational video content, an active forum with staff support, and continuously updated resources — including a real weekly story from someone navigating this from the inside out. Everything here is designed to help you understand what’s happening beneath the behaviour, and how to show up in a way that genuinely helps.

Meet the Founder

Hi, I’m Lisa. I’m a qualified psychotherapist specialising in addiction, trauma, and emotional wellbeing — and someone who has lived it herself. I built The Circuit Break Programme because I kept seeing the same gap: approaches focused on stopping the behaviour, and almost none asking why it started. My approach is direct, honest, and grounded in both clinical expertise and personal experience. I know that shame is often at the heart of what keeps the pattern running — and that real change doesn’t come from adding more of it. It comes from understanding what’s underneath. That belief sits at the centre of everything The Circuit Break Programme does.