NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. Neuro means brain, linguistic means speech or communication, and programming is a deliberate process of organising information to get the results you want.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of human excellence. It was created in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grindler. They wanted to understand how people produced excellence, so they studied a number of people who excelled in their field. Those they studied included: hypnotherapist Milton Eriksson MD, family therapist Virginia Satir and gestalt therapist Fritz Perls.

Once Bandler and Grindler discovered how these people produced excellence, they created a number of models, which others could use to replicate the excellent behaviour in themselves and others.

NLP has developed into a set of tools and techniques, which shows you how to run your mind and to create effective change in your thoughts, beliefs, behaviours and state. But it’s more than just a set of tools and techniques it is also an attitude and a methodology. NLP is about curiosity, a willingness to experiment and the use of modelling, experimentation and processes.

Ultimately NLP allows you to achieve excellent results in both your personal and professional life. You can think of NLP as a way of programming your brain to communicate information both to yourself and others in order to achieve your desired goals by changing human behavior. We learn our behaviour from our experiences and the people around us as we grow up, and this programs our brain to perceive things and to react to the world in a certain way.

NLP allows you to understand what these programs are, and then reprogram them. Because our behaviour is learnt, we are able to unlearn it! NLP is concerned with ‘how’ we do something, and not the ‘why’ (that’s for psychoanalysis).

Many of us know how to program the machines around us to get the results we need, such as using the GPS in our car to navigate our way or programming the recording devices on our TV to enjoy our favourite shows. However, few of us understand how to make deliberate choices in what we say to ourselves and to others in order to get the success and enjoyment we want from our lives.

Your brain stores all its experiences as pictures, sounds and feelings, if you change how your brain recognizes these experiences, you can change how you respond to them. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what happens in your head. Your imagination is always more powerful than your will power. Everyone has their own view of the world.

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to effectively and rapidly aid changes in the unconscious mind – which controls our behaviours, feelings, and habits. It allows you to work with the part of the brain that makes the real decisions – your unconscious mind!

Hypnosis is simply the deliberate use of the imagination, paralleled with strong focus and relaxation, done well, it can work in the same way as when you are dreaming. So when you go into hypnosis, you simply get very involved with an inner reality, it’s just like when you read a good book. Hypnosis is an entirely natural state lying somewhere in between day dreaming and the initial stages of sleep.

It is very important to dispel the myth that hypnosis ‘disempowers’ you. You will not do anything you do not want to do, as you retain the resources to be alert. Of course your session is also monitored. You are fully aware of all sounds and what is happening around you, you just feel deeply relaxed, calm and enjoy a pleasant almost dreamlike experience. You remain fully in control and cannot be made to do or think anything you do not agree with! (All those people you may have seen on a stage show, actually want to do those things, they just don’t normally!)

The great thing about hypnosis is that the therapist can communicate directly with the subject’s unconscious mind. This is a far more powerful part of the mind where emotions and intuition come from. So, hypnosis is a safe way to access natural intelligence. Issuing new instructions to create real change in the way you feel and behave. There are no real limits to what you can achieve – the only limit is your desire to change and your ability to identify the changes that you want to make.

Literally anything where there is an unconscious element to the feeling or behaviour. Common areas are – smoking cessation, weight release, confidence, phobias, depression, anxiety, pain control, emotional release, and stress.

• You are more successful and effective in all aspects of life
• You feel happier and are more fulfilled
• You communicate more effectively, creating better relationships at home and work
• You have more self-confidence, and the ability to control how you feel
• You have more fun, are less stressed, and more successful
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• Career decisions and development
• Confidence and self esteem
• Relationship decisions
• Increasing motivation or creativity
• Overcoming procrastination
• Anxiety and fear
• Setting life goals
• Work life balance, and stress management
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• I help you make decisions and set goals
• I help you understand what you want out of life in the future
• I help you set goals and determine your values, beliefs and identities
• I help you understand how and why you think and feel the way you do
• I help you remove your fears, anxieties, or compulsions. I use the latest techniques from the field of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
• Above all, I listen to your issues and enable you to solve them
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• Patronise you or make value judgements
• Promise what I can’t deliver
• Give you all the answers – I will, however, help you decide what you want for yourself
• Predict your future, cleanse your aura, or rearrange your furniture (ala fengshui).
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• I am a Certified Master NLP Practitioner, Master Hypnotist and Certified Practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnosis.
• I also hold a Doctor of Philosophy, where I read psychology, drama therapy and cultural media between 1998 and 2003.
• I limit the number of clients I have to ensure everyone receives my full attention. I believe your happiness is crucial and not to be compromised. I respect and value you as a client, and as a human being, and I adhere strictly to my Code of Practice.
• I take a pragmatic and realistic view of how the world works, which is reinforced by my practical work experience and background.
• I have an intuitive understanding of human behaviour and am always looking to be challenged, improved and invigorated.
• Finally, while I am always open to new effective methods, I don’t bombard you with any ‘new age alternative’ approaches that involve reading your fortunes, moving around your furniture or analysing your tea leaves!
• I only use techniques that I find actually make a difference.
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Who do I work with:

• People who want to feel differently about their lives and their future they are they are not satisfied with the status-quo
• People who want to change their beliefs and priorities, and feel more ‘comfortable in their own skin’
• People who want to get pass their existing negative emotions which they feel are holding them back from moving ahead
• People who are willing to explore what really matters to them and seeking clarity and resolution on what it is important
• People who have relationship concerns or what to find a relationship that works.
• People determined to make the most out of life
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For coaching to be successful, it relies on you being willing to take action to move you closer towards your goals.

Once you accept responsibility for your own achievement (and maybe even stop blaming others or situations) you will rapidly move towards your chosen outcomes. Are you willing to be held accountable for your own actions/inactions? I will expect you to take regular action and report on your progress.

Whereas coaching is not therapy, it does require you to be open and honest with yourself and your coach.

Have you reached a point in your life where you are no longer willing to put up with what is going on?

People come to coaching when they have tried other ways to achieve their goals and aren’t yet happy with their achievements so far. Or if they are just fed up and unhappy with the way their life is going. A popular phrase is “I feel like I am in a rut”

Whether it is a holistic life change or just squeezing out some more performance or passion out what you do coaching can help you.

Achieving your goals may take a little while, and may involve you spending some money with your coach and in other areas – are you willing to see this as an investment in achieving what you want? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you are ready for massive changes in your life.

This is another one of the great benefits from working with a coach. Your coach is totally supportive of you achieving of your goals – friends and loved ones often have their own agendas that, despite their love for you, may affect them helping you to achieve your goals.

The truth is, what you need to do can be very simple but you may have some limiting beliefs stopping you from taking action – your coach will help you identify and eliminate these.

Initially we will complete a Detailed Personal History, which typically takes 2 hours, depending on the presenting problem.

The next part of the program will be focused on the interventions (or change work) to remove the blockages and to create access to new resources. NLP techniques and hypnotherapy strategies will be used to achieve these outcomes. This part will also include goal setting, which is critical for achieving successful outcomes in the future.

The duration of this program is very much dependent on the presenting problem, but typically will be 3-4 hours in total (or between 3 to 4 sessions.) More sessions may be required, depending on the issues that arise.

All breakthrough sessions will be tailored to the individual needs of the client, not just in terms of interventions but also the number, duration and timing of sessions.

We are here to make your own personal breakthrough session just right for you and you can be guaranteed of our full support, care and attention.
Remember: Coaching is not therapy or counseling for psychological illnesses. If you believe you need those services, seek those professionals to help. Coaching is about helping you to achieve your personal goals, from financial goals, to relationship goals.

The method of coaching I employ uses a combination of coaching best practices, Neuro Linguistic Programming and hypnotherapy. I trained with the Christopher Howard training programs and I’m certified as a Master Practitioner of NLP, Master Results coach, Performance Consultant and in the following techniques of Master Hypnosis and Advanced Neurological Repatterning™.

I currently coach from Ellenbrook, but are able to service suburbs north of Perth city and meet with you at your home. Any distance further than that, including southern suburbs, may incur additional charge for travel.

It is important to stress that the environment must be quiet and conducive for coaching. There must be no distractions from children, animals or telephone.

• I refer and adhere to the Australian Neuro Linguistic programming Association Code of Ethics.
• My mission is to provide my clients with the help and support they need.
• I place responsibility on the client to inform me if they feel they are not getting value from us working together.
• Throughout the coaching process, the client is under no obligation to undertake further sessions.
• The client’s progress will be reviewed at every session and feedback is actively encouraged
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