The Behavior-Change Support Program
The Behavior-Change Support Program
Healthy habits for a healthy brain
With our behavior change support program, we help you develop skills and strategies to bring changes into your life that are sustainable and support cognitive wellness and health.
Why join our Behavior Change Support Program?
To promote and preserve mind-body wellness, we all need healthy lifestyle habits as unhealthy habits lead to poor physical health and cognitive decline.
Perhaps, a health practitioner has suggested you:
- Lose weight
- Stop smoking
- Increase your physical activity
- Change your food choices
But you have tried and could not maintain it for long. For any of these to take place, you need to change your “behavior”, your everyday habits which require minimal effort to maintain. Where would you start?
More often than not, removing bad habits can be complicated, like in the case of quitting smoking. Simply, knowing one must quit is not enough for the change to be implemented.
Changing “habits” is a challenging process, and most people need more than just “knowing” and motivation. Changing habits requires planning, developing specific skills and strategies, having some external support and sometimes a little “science”.
That is why we designed a program that offers you our science-based approach, clinical experience and personal support to implement durable, long term and healthy lifestyle changes.
When you sign up for our healthy habits program, you will receive:
- A personalised plan that fits your needs and skills.
- Weekly online face to face sessions with one of our wellness coaches.
- Access to regular (daily) messages.
- CBT and ACT strategies to suit your habit-changing needs.
- Reading materials and exercises on behavior change and habit formation to support your journey of change.
- Practical tips, exercises and strategies to maintain healthy behaviors and make them stick.
- Clinical Hypnosis or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) sessions for habit change support (where applicable).
We are offering 3-week support completely FREE when you sign up.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity.
How does the program work?
Our program is not a “one size fits all”. That is why we use a variety of habit formation, and behavior change approaches to suit each person’s specific requirements.
We use a combination of evidence-based strategies: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Clinical Hypnosis and Mindfulness, EMDR, all delivered via online face to face sessions with one of our wellness coaches to support you in everyday life, at home or elsewhere.
Acceptance and Commitment therapy
This is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy. We use it so you can explore why you want to make a change, what the triggers are that cause some of your unhealthy behaviors; and how to effectively handle thoughts, feelings, cravings and urges that could sway you away from implementing the changes you choose.
Mindfulness
Besides the considerable evidence of the health benefits associated with regular Mindfulness practice, we also use it as a way to develop greater awareness around your own unhealthy habits and break the cycle of mindless, unhealthy behaviors.
The Transtheoretical Model of Change
Not everyone who wants to change a habit is equally ready for the change. Some people may have successfully achieved several lifestyle changes and just need some cheering on to the “finish line”, others may be paralysed with “where do I start?”, and some may have had a small slip-up into old habits and need help getting back on track. This is what the TTM highlights: depending on your readiness for change, and what stage of change you are in, you need targeted support that meets you there.
Clinical Hypnosis
We may use Clinical Hypnosis to help you achieve a state of deep physical, emotional and mental relaxation. In this state, when the thinking mind takes a rest, suggestions for change are more easily accepted and readily implemented aiding the process of adopting healthy habits for a healthier you.
EMDR
EMDR (which stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a body-mind therapy that can be effective in changing habits. Behavioural patterns are desensitized and reprocessed by the use of various forms of bilateral stimulation (i.e. tapping or bilateral eye movement).
Habit Formation science
A large body of research and experience has accumulated on habit formation. We have condensed all the most useful tips and strategies so that your journey towards healthy habits is well planned and as easy as can be.
Experiment for FREE with our basic behavioral change support strategies
Plans comparison chart
| Subscriptions (duration): | Three months | One month | 21 days challenge |
| Number of face-to-face sessions | 12 | 4 | 3 |
| Individualised step by step plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited text support | Yes | Yes | No |
| Evidence-based strategies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| How to deal with urges, cravings, impulsive behaviours | Yes | yes | No |
| How to deal with low self-esteem, low motivation and negative self talk | Yes | yes | No |
| Tips to support habit formation | Yes | Yes | No |
| Materials and workbooks | Yes | Yes | No |
| Relapse prevention plan | Yes | Yes | No |
| Clinical Hypnosis | Yes | No | No |
| EMDR | Yes | No | No |
| Cost (USD) | 840 | 320 | FREE |
This is what our customers say
“The experience was very helpful…. I’m learning to hear myself and to be gentle” (a client commenting on the exercise program)
“I would like to express my gratitude since the (sessions) have enabled me to explore solutions where previously I had not thought”
“Each session helps me become more aware of the possibilities to improve my health and find the resources to have a healthy and active aging”
“The materials you send are very good, they support my decision taking and lead me to acting to change what doesn’t fit with my values” (clients commenting on the “eat healthy” program)
“I had been smoking for 2+ years and had made many promises to myself to quit, unsuccessfully. There was always a reason not to stop or something more important to focus on. When the opportunity came up to work with BrainFit on healthy habit forming, it was the prompt I needed to make a serious change in my life. Checking in once or twice a week helped to keep me on track and accountable for the change I needed to make. Working through different techniques to manage cravings and reduce smoking helped me to gradually work towards completely stopping. I would not have committed to stopping smoking had I not been a part of this program. I’m very grateful for the patience and support Susanna has provided in keeping me focussed on getting to my goal” (A client commenting on the stop smoking program)
“The experience was very fruitful, I achieved my goal to stop smoking after 3 weeks of sessions. The high quality of the professional that supported me in this process made a difference in the whole experience”. (A client commenting on the stop smoking program)
“I highly recommend Susanna Zito as a Brainfit Personal Transformational Coach. Changing habits can be scary and daunting, but with Susanna, you receive gentle guidance, someone who never judges when you stumble and fall, and celebrates all your wins with you. She makes this often turbulent journey we’re on, a little sweeter and easier. Her life experience, education, empathy, intelligence and wisdom are a truly rare combination.
Susanna has an extremely calming and heart-centred voice, manner and style, which centered me immediately when I was feeling scattered and unfocused. She has a real gift: being able to listen deeply to both what you say, and what you don’t say.
I am trying to write every day, and ultimately write a book. I needed help to get into a daily writing habit. Susanna and I worked together on my struggles with procrastination and self-doubt and self-sabotage. Together, we worked on identifying that feelings of overwhelm and unrealistic expectations were two of my biggest stumbling block. I was challenged to break my writing tasks down to smaller chunks.
It really helped to know that, once a week, Susanna was there to discuss my progress – or lack of it, and was such an enthusiastic, and compassionate supporter, especially when I struggled most. She would gently add another exercise or insight to apply the following week, so that forming new habits was a layering process and not more overwhelm.
There were a lot of helpful tools and reading material, and even if I forget the name of the methods, I still apply them daily. Asking myself: what do I value? What am I doing today to express that value in my life? I won a writing contest while working with Susanna by applying the techniques to deal with overwhelm. Susanna offers techniques and tips to gently change habits so they become life-long positive changes and not dramatic, radical changes that are short-term, and unrealistic to maintain.
I found, over the weeks, that once I had taken that initial step to being open to coaching, that I became open to change and creating new habits. Thank you Susanna for giving me tools that I can apply to many aspects of my life. I’m exercising more, eating better, living more mindfully, and writing almost daily”.
“Thank you Susanna, i’m a proud nonsmoker!”
“I started the program with little desire and plenty of skepticism to quit my 20 years habit of being a heavy smoker. 2 months later, I didn’t feel like smoking anymore, shortly after, i didn’t smoke over a month and I don’t have any desire, cravings or a feeling of depravation, which I was so concerned about while imagining myself not smoking. I know that I will never light another cigarette again in my life and it doesn’t require any effort”.
“… Sussana helped me to reconnect to my inner self and develop my mindfulness which reflects on other factors of my life. I’m absolutely overwhelmed with the outcome of the program and insist that anyone and everyone who wish to make changes in their life will do the program!”
“I learned a new tools and how to control stress”.
“I especially liked the “hypnoses”.
“The sessions were great and really beneficial and I would highly recommend this service to all. I want to thank you for being so supportive and encouraging to me”.
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