NLP
(Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

NLP is a sensory communication model and an alternative approach to psychotherapy that uses language and communication to produce personal change. It was developed in the 1970s by co-creators Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, after studying and then modelling three key outstanding therapists of their time. Notably these were Milton Erickson (Clinical Hypnosis), Virginia Satir (Family Systems Therapy) and Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy).

NLP has grown popular in many areas of life other than that of therapy from where it originated and today its models and tools have been used widely in advertising, sales, business communication, management training, teaching, executive coaching and motivational seminars. Like Clinical Hypnotherapy and EFT, it works positively to alter the beliefs that we have in our unconscious minds that may be hindering us from health, happiness and reaching our full potential. It helps to uncover our limitations and find new ways to be and act in the world that ultimately will give us even greater feelings of control, love and security.

Our unconscious minds are continually attempting to get us to experience these states on a daily basis, through all of our behaviours and habits. Our personality is even made up of a tendency to have one of these states as our core modality, in operating within the world. How healthy and balanced this is in our unconscious, determines how happy and well we are in life.

As a Master Practitioner, I consistently use NLP with clients as a therapy in itself and the framework of it exists in much of my Clinical Hypnotherapy, Life Coaching and EFT work.