Since then I have learnt so much more about NLP but still have that wonder at what its techniques are able to achieve, often incredibly quickly.

For me, the core message of NLP is that how you feel, how you think and how you behave are all much more malleable than most people believe.

Thought Pattern Management is an extension of NLP and light hypnosis.  It is amazing for letting go of stored negative emotions in the most comfortable way.  Its main applications are in the health field.  Its founder, Robert Fletcher cured himself of the effects of a stroke using "the engineering model."  It is immensely powerful with depression and I have used it with a client with bi-polar disorder, whose moods became more balanced afterwards. It is powerful healing with metaphor and storytelling.

IEMT is another therapy for bringing about powerful shifts in emotions and identity without needing to talk about it in any detail.  This works fantastically well with teenagers who can find it particularly hard to express how they are feeling.

Weight Loss is an area that really interests me and many of my clients come to me for this.  It is incredible that a client who genuinely wants to lose weight can find so many different ways to undermine themselves.  It should be a simple matter of calories in, calories out but it is far more complex and fascinating than that.

Separation & Divorce can take an enormous emotional toll.  Here the priorities are usually to enable the client to clarify their feelings then to let go of the past and develop a new vision of the future.  Click HERE for more details on this.

Another area I love is working with children.  They are often very quick to pick up the ideas of NLP, such as being able to change state (see home page for more details on this) and are quick to see the possibilities.