The user manual for your brain

Access the creative and problem-solving power of your unconscious mind with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Choose how you respond to any situation. Always be at your best. Kick unhelpful habits. Get more of what you want, more of the time.

• Tap into your unconscious as an important resource
• Generate choices, opportunities and options for any situation
• Learn how to analyse and copy how successful people do it
• Get rid of bad habits, bad attitudes and unhelpful mindsets
• Minimise phobias and negative experiences that hold you back
• Co-create easy, personalised hacks that keep you on track
• Remove internal barriers to experiencing creative flow

What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming?

Known as ‘the user’s manual for the brain’, NLP is simple and effective, interesting and fun. It’s a set of techniques developed by psychologists with the aim of increasing your choice of how you think, feel and behave. Rooted in an attitude of curiosity, it helps us move from our present state (known as our Model of the World) to our desired state.

As its name suggests, NLP draws upon the science of the brain and academic studies of the use of language, plus our own unique subjective processes, experiences and beliefs. A qualified NLP practitioner has been trained to identify and use techniques that are appropriate and helpful to you and your situation. These techniques range between:

• Deep questioning - utilising language to reveal hidden beliefs and remove blocks.
• Sensory rememberings and imaginings - find internal resources, solve problems and strategise.
• Scripted exercises - deceptively simple, sometimes unusual, but always effective activities that loosen limitations and push boundaries.
• Resource anchors - programming yourself with a personalised hack that enables you to summon your desired state, like calmness or confidence, whenever you need it.
• Modelling - exploring how other people have successfully done what you would like to do, and adopting an attitude of excellence.

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How does NLP work?

NLP builds and strengthens a good relationship between your conscious and unconscious minds. This allows you to control and change your thoughts, emotions and actions, and be at your best in any situation.

• Your conscious mind holds what you’re experiencing in the present moment. 'Now' is relatively small so, like the tip of an iceberg, spreading out below it is…

• Your unconscious mind, which holds back-up information so you can make sense of everything. It’s vast, powerful, and has all the resources you will need.

While the NLP techniques themselves are creative, interesting and fun, they do demand complete engagement and a commitment to bringing about your own success.

What is NLP good for?

NLP techniques empower you to make positive changes in your life by helping you help yourself - sometimes through consciously understanding yourself, your capabilities, strengths and goals; other times by working with your unconscious mind to get the job done. Use it to change issues around:

• Self-confidence
• Relationships
• Motivation and direction
• Creativity
• Decision-making
• Self-imposed limitations
• Phobia and fear
• Positive attitude setting
• Negative past experiences
• Confusion between ‘comfort’, ‘stretch’ and ‘panic’
• Managing change when others are involved
• Planning and visualising success
• Revealing what you really want from your life
• Setting good habits, ditching unhelpful habits

Can NLP cure me of X, Y, Z...

While NLP has been described as 'the user’s manual for the brain' (see Bob G Bodenhamer & L Michael Hall’s book), there’s no implication it can fix everything. It’s not psychotherapy or counselling, which tackle things like emotional distress or mental health disorders; nor is it mentoring or coaching. However, NLP something practitioners of these disciplines might have in their toolkit. 

NLP is an active process of planning to bring about positive change. It often draws upon positive past experiences to facilitate this, with a forward-looking intention. NLP can also be used to minimise the impact of negative past events, resolve anxiety and cure phobias, though not in a way that explores or analyses them. The techniques and exercises work with the power of your unconscious, within a safe space, and this is the key to its success. 

NLP on its own cannot be used to treat the effects of trauma, extreme anxiety or other serious issues. It has limits. If we’re working together and I assess that you’d benefit from a different therapeutic approach, I’ll raise it for discussion. While it might mean losing your business to a counsellor or therapist, I’d rather you get what you need to thrive.

What happens during an NLP session?

• Please bring a notebook and pen. 
• In your first session, we’ll explore and agree upon what you want to achieve and get going. Thereafter, at the start of each session we’ll review any actions you took or what has transpired since last time. We may touch on your long-term outcome and set a goal for this session.
• Richard Bandler, one of the fathers of NLP, described it as “an attitude of curiosity that leaves behind a trail of techniques”. This curiosity is ours, yours and mine. A feature of our sessions is the asking of questions that will help you explore your goal. Sometimes this - the ‘linguistics’ element of NLP - is all that is required. Other times, it will give me clarity on what might be holding you back and suitable techniques to help.
• I will explain options to you so you can decide whether the suggested technique is something you’d like to try in that moment. Some of these techniques include visualisation, while others involve brainstorming ideas, or verbally exploring your situation and gently bringing unconscious knowledge to the front of your mind.
• There is sometimes the opportunity to create an ‘anchor’ - an easy tool you can use whenever you need to summon certain feelings or an emotional state outside the session. We might also have the opportunity to get rid of unhelpful anchors that have been created accidentally - such as reminders of negative experiences - that aren’t helpful.
• The minimum number of one-hour sessions for Neuro-Linguistic Programming is three. This is to make sure that the work we do is bedded in, and we can eliminate negative influences. This might be enough for a particular single outcome, or you can choose to extend sessions into other goal areas. 

Confidentiality

Naturally, sessions are confidential to the client receiving the treatment. Personal information you disclose to me will not be repeated - even if someone else has paid for the session. Notes taken during sessions are anonymised, stored securely and destroyed upon completion of our work together. The only times I break confidentiality is if there is a serious welfare issue or a crime has been or will be committed.

Sessions & Bundles

• NLP needs a minimum number of 3 x 1 hour sessions in 3 weeks to identify and work with a simple specific goal or outcome. 1 session costs £40 (minimum 3 sessions is £120). If there are several things you’d like to tackle, there’s a discount if you pay for 5 sessions in advance.  
• Services for businesses & organisations are available on a bespoke retainer package with discounts applied, depending on the size of your workforce and your requirements. 
• Vouchers are also available as gifts for single or multiple sessions.
• In certain circumstances, I can offer remote services. 
• My services are available to adults aged 18+.

How do you know that I know my stuff?

I qualified as an NLP practitioner in January 2025 with The Coaching Academy, a course which is accredited by the ANLP (Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming). 

To continually improve my skills and knowledge, I attend regular CPD sessions with my tutor and other practitioners. I’m insured and you can see this certificate on request. 

I’m an ethical practitioner - I only deliver what I’m trained and qualified to deliver. I focus on empowerment, which is forward-looking for the most part and doesn't sift through the past (like psychotherapy or counselling do).

Additionally, I’m neurodivergent and trauma-aware and will work with you in a sensitive way. If I feel you need a different type of personal development work that I can’t provide, I will speak with you about this - for example, if I think you’d benefit more from psychotherapy, mentoring, counselling or similar.

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