Frequently Asked Questions

What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP arose from studying high-achievers who consistently attained exceptional results in their personal and professional lives. What has been learned from these exceptional people has been shaped in to models which anyone can learn and apply. In fact, NLP is so fundamental to our communication and thinking, that it is applicable to virtually all areas of your life.  

What kind of issues can be treated with NLP?

NLP techniques can help you achieve, maintain and enhance excellence in all areas of your life.

NLP techniques give you the tools to:

• Advance your career & make more money
• Increase motivation and energy
• Increase Self Confidence
• Overcome Procrastination
• Destroy Fears and Phobias
• Improve negotiation and Problem solving skills
• Create your desired self-image
• Communicate to produce the kind of results you want
• Inspire and Engage others
• Attract the right person for you
• Create ideal relationships
• Build strong rapport with others
• Attain peak performance in athletics, creative arts, academia
• Manage your moods
• Find your life’s work

And More

What are typical NLP applications?

Collapsing Anchors, Visual Squash, 6-step Reframing, V/K dissociation, Change Personal History, Belief Change, are some of the techniques that were derived from applying the models.

Who owns NLP? 

NLP is a field like psychology or business. It is not a brand name or company. It belongs to everybody.

Who uses NLP?

Anyone who:-

Interacts with people in any way.
Desires to improve their ability to connect with others.
Is searching for ways and means to personal growth.
Knows there has to be more to life!

Educators and Trainers who support students/clients in achieving their objectives. Students who learn and integrate new resources for coping with the pressures of school and recognize what needs to be changed and become willing to engage the learning process more directly.

Parents who become more comfortable and adept at interacting with their children in a way that leaves everyone feeling seen, heard and respected; and develop the practical skills to assist their children with learning issues, school problems or more effectively navigate the tricky waters of life.

Managers and Business people who use NLP to enhance their communication skills, build stronger and more resourceful teams/staff members, augment their leadership skills, and more effectively participate in win-win negotiation and problem solving sessions.

Sales people who learn how to quickly and effectively establish rapport, determine the client's needs and expectations, position their product or service and establish long-term win-win relationships.

Mental Health Professionals who learn how to take care of themselves, and assist their clients with the new insights and skills gained from working with the powerful and generative interventions that NLP invites.

Medical Practitioners who learn how to establish greater rapport and work as a team with their patients, gain an enhanced understanding of the role that beliefs and secondary gain can play in the health or disease of a patient.

Athletes, Entertainers who learn how to focus on their goals, to draw on their inner resources and to identify those strategies/activities that do not support who they see themselves capable of becoming.

Anyone who wants more out of life, who wants to improve communication at home or at work, who helps others, who wants to improve their health, who ... can benefit from NLP

 How is NLP different from psychotherapy?

While Psychotherapy offers tools for understanding your limitations and blocks, NLP offers the tools for change. Although Psychotherapy can assist with insight and understanding, psychotherapy alone is often unable to change the problem behaviour, as many long-term psychotherapy clients will attest. Whilst valuing the process of understanding and insight, the outcome of change is equally important. NLP creates change in behaviour and is designed as a short-term treatment, as compared with the longer-term treatment seen with Psychotherapy. Most issues are resolved in one to five treatment sessions with NLP.

What makes NLP treatment so effective?

NLP is so effective because your subconscious mind, or emotional center, stores all of your earliest emotional and experiential imprints, both positive and negative. These imprints create the beliefs that you have about yourself. These beliefs along with your unique way of processing information create the patterns at work in your life today.

We have all had the experience of seeing a "pattern" at work in our lives that we feel unable to change. Perhaps you have difficulty establishing healthy relationships, you have repeated conflict in your work environment, or continued "bad luck" with finances. Perhaps you struggle with addictive behavior, low self worth or chronic health problems. The basis of all your experiences originates in your subconscious mind and the "programming" you have created based on this subconscious information. Working with these subconscious beliefs by modifying negative programming allows you to break these old patterns and create positive, long-term change.

Can NLP be combined with hypnotherapy?

NLP can be combined with hypnotherapy to successfully treat a variety of issues including:

• Weight loss
• Smoking Cessation
• Optimal Health
• Insomnia
• Compulsive Behaviors
• Anxiety/Depression
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

What are NLP sessions like?

NLP sessions are a comfortable and emotionally safe environment.

During the session we discuss what you would like or what you would want, and work on clarifying your desires. We will look at important areas of life, (e.g., finances, work of career, relationships, education, health & fitness, family & friends). The goal is for your values to be supported and any blocks that prevent you from achieving success to be eliminated. Through this journey of discovery, you may see possibilities and resources that you may not have been aware of.

An NLP session involves identifying the present state or unwanted behaviour, determining the desired outcome, and then doing specific techniques that help you get from one to the other. Through a series of questioning techniques, the strategies (or patterns) for doing the unwanted behaviour are elicited, and new strategies are created that will produce your desired outcome. NLP is different from other forms of personal growth change work because it focuses on goals instead of problems; want can be rather than what was.

NLP can help to give you more choices, to discover new and better resources and to have more of the life that you are wanting. 

What is hypnosis?

A swinging pendulum and a droning hypnotist are the most popular images we get form the media. Hypnosis is actually much more sophisticated. It is primarily a relationship between the hypnotist and the client and the use of very specific language and communication patterns.