Is being hypnotized to stop overspending a New Year's resolution worth making?

Subconsciously, someone who overspends does it out of fear.

It could be a fear of not being validated by their friends and family for not having the latest gadgets, a fear of feeling they don't deserve their job so they spend their money while they have it, or a deep fear that goes back to childhood.

At least that's what I was told by Sanjay Burman, a Toronto hypnotherapist who says over spenders can be hypnotized to stop spending so much money.