The mission of the Center for Integrated NLP & CBT is to heal emotional wounds, resolve behavioral and interpersonal problems and support the personal development of our clients and students through the application of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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What is NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)?
NLP is an approach to understanding human behavior, and a set of explicit skills and techniques derived from that approach. It has been defined as the study of the structure of subjective experience.
NLP was originally developed in the 1970's by Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Robert Dilts, and others by modeling people (i.e., Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and others) who stood out as being exemplars in their ability to communicate and support people through the process of making important changes in their lives.
NLP examines the patterns or "programming" created by the interaction between the nervous system ("neuro") and langauge structures ("linguistic"), and their influence on our bodies and behaviors. From the NLP perspecitive, it is this interaction that produces both effective and ineffective behavior, and is responsible for the processes behind both human excellence and pathology.
NLP Trainings offer interested people the opportunity to learn NLP through live demonstrations, hands-on supervised practice, and interactive group discussions. NLP trainings usually attract teachers, therapists, coaches, health care professionals, managers, sales people, HR personnel, lawyers, and other professionals who want to grow professionally and personally.
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the important role that an individual’s unique thinking (i.e., self-talk, images, perspectives’ etc.) has on the way he/she feels and behaves. CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, rather than the external events that are happening around us. In other words it is the unique meaning an individual is making about his/her external events rather than the external events themselves that cause him/her to feel and behave in a dysfunctional (or functional) way.
The originators of CBT (Aarron Beck, Albert Ellis, etc) identified the main distorted thinking patterns that cause a person to feel anxious, depressed, enraged, and hopeless and developed cognitive and behavioral techniques that have been proven (in many large clinical trials) to help relieve these emotional/behavioral problems.
The benefit of the CBT perspective is that if we focus on changing the way we think, we end up changing the way we feel and act even if the situation around us does not change. CBT also actively trains clients how to effectively solve problems. This unique focus on changing one’s thinking and applying effective problem solving sets CBT apart from the more traditional psychodynamic therapies which focus more on understanding where interpersonal problems and patterns developed by focusing on the individual’s childhood experiences. Though CBT spends some time looking back into a person’s past, it's main focus is on the present.
The CBT therapist actively teaches and applies cognitive and behavioral techniques during therapy sessions while the client implements these techniques and completes homework assignments between sessions. It is this active, collaborative relationship that helps the client to reduce their emotional distress and begin making positive changes in their life.
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What is Personal Development Coaching?
Personal Development Coaching is a professional process where by a coaching-client is invited to "think out-loud" with their coach on a regularly scheduled basis with the intent and purpose of personal development growth and goal achievement. As your personal development coach, I will intently listen to you, affirm who you are and who you are becoming and what you are striving to achieve. Together we engage in a problem solving process where we seek to gain clarity of the various issues you are facing. As your coach, I support and challenge you and offer my experience as well as use NLP and Cognitive Behavioral techniques and personal development exercises geared toward moving you toward the achievement of your goals and personal growth.
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What kind of Psychologist/NLP-Trainer/Coach Am I?
My background and interest is in the positive psychology of the people I am working with. I bring my training and experience from the fields of Psychology, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Hypnosis, Leadership and Business to my clients. My primary focus is on supporting you in the process of your self-actualization as a person. I strive to help you become a better communicator with yourself and with the important people in your life. I strive to help you to gain clarity of the goals you desire to work toward achieving and I strive to help you gain a greater understanding of what you value in life and support you in creating a life that satisfies you.
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