NLP THERAPY: THE APPROACH YOUR GP HAS NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT

You’ve probably heard the term NLP before. Maybe a friend mentioned it, or perhaps you stumbled across it in your search for something - anything - that might help you better understand and resolve your symptoms. Here’s what it is, how it works and why it produces results that other approaches often can’t.

Demand for mental health services are at an all time high - with government provided services having waiting lists that are painfully long. Nearly all these services focus on your conscious thoughts and experiences. Where NLP is different is that even though we recognise, discuss and explore your conscious existence, our focus is on the subconscious programming - and identifying ways to alter this, in order to generate calm and peace where chaos and instability once was.

Let’s dive a little deeper into what NLP actually is:

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming

NEURO = How your brain processes experience

LINGUISTIC = The role of language in shaping that experience

PROGRAMMING = The patterns and sequences your brain runs automatically

In practice what this means is we identify (both consciously and subconsciously), the triggers, memories and experiences in your life that have led you to feel the way you do. 

Your subconscious programming (from other life experience) and the language in which you unconsciously use to process these experiences shape the emotions that you feel. 

Essentially....

• You experience something 

• Your brain processes this experience as dangerous or potentially harmful (based on prior experience and responses to that) 

• Then you reflexively react

These reactions can come in the form of anxiety, which will also manifest in a physical manner to some degree. This then cements a new baseline upon which future experiences use as a reference point of how to react. This is known as recursion - a loop formed of new reactions to an experience, controlled by previous responses.

This is where the really important realisations occur - and one of the main reasons why I use NLP therapy as part of the wider treatment strategy here...

If these powerful, draining emotions are subconscious responses to previous events - how do we interrupt the unconscious and replace the old reference points with new ones, centred around calm, grounded responses?

This is where the tools of NLP come into play.

We use methods to identify the core elements of the trauma/triggers/experiences/memories where you felt these core emotions, the language you use to describe them to yourself, how and where you feel the emotion, the sensory memories of these experiences - all are crucial pieces of the puzzle.

Finally we work through ways of eliminating the subconscious responses that drive your symptoms, replacing them with genuinely neutral states of calm. We might use methods designed to shrink and replace an emotion or feeling. We may use methods designed to help your subconscious realise its innate power and brilliance. We may even help your unconscious mind reset itself to a point further back in your timeline, before any of these symptoms existed. The memories are there, the neutral or positive states are there, they just need to be accessed.

This all happens very fast.

This is where NLP differs from CBT and other standard counselling approaches. Instead of trying to talk your way through a memory or emotion, or attempting to logic your way back to calm - we use methods to treat directly, the causes for your symptoms, allowing the calm to be there for all future reference points. 

We neutralise them one by one until the symptoms no longer exist.

Sometimes this is achieved in a single session. Other, more complex histories of trauma, anxiety or fear that go back a long way in your timeline, can take a little more attention.

This is why my treatment structure offers single sessions for the low hanging fruit. And for those that are ready to commit to a once in a lifetime treatment experience, there is the 4-week core program - which is specifically designed to help those that may be lost in their lives, carrying the weight of their anxiety, trauma or fears.

Before you make any decision, let’s start with a free phone consultation. No commitment, no pressure - just an opportunity to connect to see if we are right for each other in this next chapter of your journey.

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