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Kath Elliott recognises her former self in some of her clients seeking support to change the way they drink. Many are high-performing, aged in their 40s and 50s, with big jobs, families and numerous stress factors.

Elliott describes herself as a former “social binge drinker”, able to spend days off alcohol but then going hard.

“If I look back at it, a lot of it was around relieving stress and the pressure of juggling motherhood, working a corporate job and trying to keep that perfect veneer,” she says.

Elliott quit…

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