NLP offers ways to take charge of thought processes, which puts the therapist in the position of being more of a teacher. If you've had a bad experience in childhood that is creating difficulties in your present life, I will explain how to remember that event, not as you experienced it at the time, but as though you were an adult looking at that scene as though it had been filmed. This allows you to judge cause and effect, who had power and responsibility, as you were not able to as a child. This in turn helps you to have a different response to the memory, one which will change its effect in the present.
Or take that inner, self-critical voice that can drag you down. CBT will tell you to rationally understand that it is incorrect. A therapist working on 'thinking positively' will tell you to make affirmations that praise and encourage you. I will help you to listen to it, notice the tone, the volume, the other qualities of the voice, and invite you to experiment with changing these qualities.
One that often brings a smile is to suggest that you simply speed it up, until it begins to sound like Mickey Mouse, then like an unintelligible squeak. Training your mind to do this stops its emotional effect, and 'clears a space' for you to begin to think in more realistic ways about who you are, what your situation is, and how you could act effectively instead of being paralysed by self-criticism. Qualifications & Training
B.A. cum laude, Boston University, U.S.A., Psychology and Philosophy.
Diploma in the Teaching of Adults, University of Hull.
Graduate Diploma in Social Administration, University of Hull.
Diploma in Applied Social Studies (Certificate of Qualification in Social Work), University of Leeds.
NLP Practitioner, with Eric Robbie, Willie Monteiro and John McWhirter.
NLP Master Practitioner, ITS, with Ian McDermott, Tad James, Robert Dilts.
Human Design Engineering, Richard Bandler.
UKCP Accreditation as a Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist, from 1995.Experience
Nine years working at Pashby House, a Day Hospital run on therapeutic community lines, under Dr. J.Amor Ardis, doing group and individual work.
Two years as Intensive Care Social Worker, specialising in cases with a psychiatric component, East Hull.
Four years in charge of a Social Services Centre for clients with mental health problems, setting up and running the program and training staff in a new, purpose-built centre.
From 1989, working privately as a psychotherapist.Fees
£45 per session. I always charge the full fee for the first session, and during that session, if there is special need, set up an affordable program for that particular client. Usually NLP begins to be effective from the first session, so typically the course of work will be only a few weeks.
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