Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Neuro refers to how the mind and body interact. Linguistic refers to the insights into a person’s thinking that can be gained by careful attention to their use of language. Programming refers to the thinking and behaviour patterns that people use in their everyday lives. NLP is a sophisticated technique, and its benefits are far greater than this brief explanation; however, in simple terms, a therapist can draw your attention to how the words you use on a daily basis can affect how you feel, how you perform, how you create and accept your own possibly erroneous beliefs about yourself. By being aware of and changing your use of language, you can re-programme your unconscious mind to enhance your confidence in your own abilities and to discard limiting beliefs.  

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a way of talking about how you think about the world, yourself, and other people; and how what you do affects your thoughts and feelings.  CBT can help you to change how you think (‘Cognitive’) and what you do (‘Behaviour’). These changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it focuses on the ‘here and now’ problems and difficulties. Instead of focussing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now. It has been found to be helpful in Anxiety, Depression, Panic, Agoraphobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other conditions. CBT can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you.

 

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is a specific therapeutic method that now receives worldwide recognition, particularly in the field of trauma. EMDR appears to work as a form of Accelerated Information Processing (AIP) that unblocks painful perceptions, emotions, beliefs and meanings which somehow have got locked into the nervous system at the time of a traumatic event. It is still not clear which mechanisms are being used in this process, and it is therefore a working model based on a hypothesis.   (Various theories have been put forward to explain AIP)

Evidentially, it has been a successful therapy since it was developed in 1987.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

EFT is a powerful technique that combines two well-established sciences so that you can benefit from both at the same time, i.e. Mind-Body Medicine and Acupuncture (without needles). There are volumes of evidence that each of these methods singly applied can provide impressive relief; when you combine them both using EFT, a profound synergistic effect is possible. EFT uses the tapping of certain meridian points, whilst at the same time re-processing the thoughts connected to the anxiety, phobia, or previous stressful event. It can also be used in weight-management, by helping to control cravings for certain foods.  Results are often amazing, with long-standing issues disappearing immediately; other clients might need to repeat the process for a few days to control or eliminate a problem; and some clients like to use it whenever they face a potentially stressful event (e.g. fear of flying). EFT is a technique that can be learned very easily and quickly, and requires no special diagnostic training. 

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