My aim is to use all possible available resources, so that clients find their well-being and emotional balance in the shortest possible amount of time.  

For those of you that have attended Counselling or similar therapy, I would like to offer you an insert from a Richard Bandler speech taken from one of his worldwide seminars: ‘Evening with Richard Bandler’ Event – 20 October 2010.

Bandler is talking, “learning”(?) from a therapist – << He looked at me and he went, ‘Maybe you’ll learn something by watching.’ And he turned around and said to this woman, he said, ‘Louise, how are you doing today?’ And she absolutely burst into tears. It was like clockwork, it was like it’s now time to begin and bang, she went off like an explosion, crying and sobbing and muttering something about her father and blah, blah, and she was going on and on and on, and he kept asking repeatedly, ‘And how do you feel about that?’ Which, by the way, I later found out, translates in psychotherapy language to, ‘I have no fucking idea what to do about this!’ So if a therapist looks at you and goes, ‘And how do you feel about this?’ it’s basically their way of saying, ‘I have no fucking idea what to do at this moment and I’m hoping something pops up along the way.’ But then he turned back and looked at me and I had my arms and legs crossed, and by the way that was to keep from laughing, because I thought the whole thing was rather silly. And he said to me, ‘You’re closed to new ideas.’ And I said, ‘What?’ And he looked at me, and he said, ‘Your arms and legs are closed. You’re closed to new ideas.’ And I looked down at my legs and I said, ‘That’s not where ideas go in! I don’t think!’ >>

A few clients of mine have been critical about their previous therapist – “she/he is simply-listening” – he/she was not providing any input, very much to their annoyance. One client of mine got frustrated with the therapist. He was very upset with his ex-wife because she would not allow him to see his children, and the question posed to him was, in fact: ‘And how do you feel about this? I let you guess his reply.

Now, for one moment, imagine that you have only one tool or, maybe, even two to do a job – do you think that if you had more tools the job could be easier and, most important, it could be terminated faster?  

In a Blog entitled “NLP Experts Speak Out”, this Psychologist states: “Admittedly, despite having a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, I know very little about NLP, so I looked up the technique and indeed, a very similar version had been reported by NLP practitioners decades ago – [Guy Winch Ph.D].

Many psychologists don’t like NLP – they think it is not “real”, it works in an orthodox way or perhaps, it even works too fast. If psychology is 120 years old NLP, in comparison, is the young grandson.

One must not forget about the roots to any application. Early computer operating systems were using DOS and when you now type in your search box, for example, “*.doc”, you are using a DOS wildcard. Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, CBT and many others are excellent “DOS tools” but in the new Millennium new approaches are available and we ought to work with as many of those as possible to ensure better and faster well-being for all.