NLP,CBT and Hypnosis in New Forest

Clients seen from Southampton Ashurst, Bassett, Cadnam, Dibden, Fawley, Hamble, Hedge End, Holbury, Hythe, Marchwood, Sholing, Shirley, Totton
Convenient for - Beaulieu, Bishop's Waltham, Bournemouth, Chandler's Ford, Brockenhurst, Eastleigh, Fair Oak, Fareham, Gosport, Kings Worthy, Lymington, Lyndhurst, New Forest, New Milton, North Baddesley, Portchester, Portsmouth, Romsey, Southsea, Stubbington, Winchester, Waterlooville, Waterside, Hants

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is one of the most exciting new therapies to develop in recent times. It has an understanding of how the brain (and mind) works, which has developed even more in recent years as neuro science allows us the explore the brain in more detail.

As NLP has a deep understanding of how the brain works, and why we might react to certain situations in life, it can therefore know how to change this. So for example, when someone suffers from a past trauma, we know that the pictures made in the mind when remembering that trauma have a certain emotional tag that is used time and time again. By changing how the picture is produced in the mind, the emotional tag can be changed, and allow the person to feel differently about the trauma.
It can be used with phobias and fears, changes of behaviours and actions, and combined with other approaches is a powerful therapy and also part of a life coaching tool.

CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) is similar to NLP as it looks at how the brain/mind works, and ways to produce changes. Much of the therapy can look at how thoughts can create emotions, but behaviours can create thoughts and then produce the emotions. Much of CBT involves looking at what the person is doing to create all the thoughts, feelings and behaviours around an issue they wish to change, so then the work is at changing these to produce a better response and feelings.
CBT often carries on outside the therapy room, with tasks and experiments to use in life between the sessions and therefore speed up changes.
It has been proven to be a very successful approach in dealing with OCD, depression and anxieties.

Hypnosis has been used for thousands of years as a therapeutic tool and is completely safe. In fact the word comes from the Greek word ‘hypnos’ which means sleep, and is used because you may lazy and sleepy under hypnosis.

There is no way you can be out of control under hypnosis. You can talk and listen under hypnosis just as well as you can in your normal state. The power of hypnosis is it allows the subconscious mind to take on positive ideas in there purest form. This is why you can’t be manipulated under hypnosis. If you feel an idea is negative, you will reject it.

Most people go into a form of hypnosis a couple of times a day without realising it. Forget being in a trance or having no recall of being put under. You are just talked into a state of relaxation by the therapist. It feels different to each person, but as an example, remember a time when you were laying on the beach. The warmth of the sun is on your face, you have your eyes closed and gradually you feel relaxed, almost sleepy. The sounds around you; the sea, the children’s excited voices, the helicopter flying overhead, these all gradually merge into one sound as you feel totally still and relaxed. This is a form of hypnosis. In the therapy room, you may feel so relaxed that your mind wanders and you stop listening to what the therapist is saying. Don’t worry. Your sub-conscious mind will still take in everything that is being said.

Hypnosis is used so your therapist can work with you sub-conscious mind. It is here that things have been repressed or things have been coded wrongly ( As with smoking, where the sub-conscious mind has written a code to tell the conscious mind that smoking is a natural act. This then becomes an automated act. By re-coding the sub-conscious mind, the craving to smoke disappears). This form of hypnosis works wonderfully well for confidence building etc. Afterwards you will feel relaxed, and full of well-being.