One of the most common areas that comes up when I see clients is to help them resolve internal conflict. Quite often when we want to make a positive change in an area of our life there can be another part of us that stands in the way, stopping us from fulfilling what we sometimes…
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Seeing the Bigger Picture
When looking to make a change and move away from something you don’t want, towards something you do, it can sometimes seem difficult to know where to start and where the changes need to be made. Below I will outline a core model from NLP that puts some structure and therefore understanding around any specific…
Change the Viewing to Change the Doing!
Learn a powerful exercise to better manage specific situations that cause you stress or anxiety. This exercise is more in depth than previous ones outlined and so does take about half an hour to complete. When you get anxious or stressed about something it can be pretty intense when you are “in” the anxiety and…
Emotional Completion- A Key Strategy for Managing Stress
We all know how frustrating it is when we forget the name of somebody and have that “it’s on the tip of our tongue” feeling, or unexpectedly and temporarily stop a task we are in the middle of. There is a sense of relief and achievement when we remember the name or finally get to…
A Door is a Door? Pattern-Matching Revisited
As some of you will know from my past articles one of the key elements to human learning is through association and matching to previous experiences. This is, in most circumstances, an extremely helpful mechanism that allows us to manage the huge amount of information that we are constantly absorbing through our senses. In practical…
Self observation and awareness-the path to a more stress free life
We all have internal dialogues going on inside our minds to varying degrees…with this voice of ours typically focused on either the past or the future. Of course this ability to be aware of the concept of past and future is essential for us to live in the world around us. Unfortunately this dialogue can…
See your potential – access your inner strengths and resources
Probably one of the common and also simplest ways I see my clients really change for the better is when they access and re-experience their inner strengths and resources. Really connecting to the potential we have for change is a powerful and important reminder of what we, as humans, are capable of. I, like many,…
My Therapeutic Approach
In a snapshot: I work using three established and proven, solution-focused approaches that enable you to reach your goals in an average of four sessions. We will take into consideration all elements of your life with the understanding that each can affect the other, recognising your unique personal make up, history and circumstances, before focusing on targeted, managable…
Managing Stress by Understanding our Innate Knowledge Patterns
Caveman instincts The fight/flight response or stress response is an emotional and physical way of coping that has been part of human behaviour since we were living in caves, fighting off big scary sabre tooth tigers! As you could well imagine the emotional response needed by our ancestors would have needed to be quick and…
Human Givens
Part of my training encompassed what is called The Human Givens approach and a key element of this is understanding a set of needs essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing, identified as important for everyone to live a healthy and happy life. Each of these needs are important yet everyone will have different priorities…