Razzy, some people like hypnotherapy, and others are sceptical about it. You are probably thinking about something like the stop smoking programs that attempt to lessen the desire and help motivate you to break the habit? Hypnotherapy really is just advanced relaxation techniques, and relaxation can be a good coping strategy to have. It could be useful in conjunction with the rest of your therapy. My concern with relying on just hypnotherapy is that it would not address the emotions and stress and whatever there is that you are not dealing with effectively in your life such that you need to resort to maladaptive coping methods. It really is important to face the problems, hard as that is, and learn to take care of them effectively.