Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP

Kausar Syed

Qualified Cognitive Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner
DipCHyp, MNLP, MNCH(Lic.)
West London

Cognitive Hypnotherapy

Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a brief approach which uses a modern understanding of trance to enable the client to let go of what restricts them, and create what would empower them.

It uses the client’s natural trance states (like you experience when driving, daydreaming etc) to assist in uncovering the feelings, thoughts and memory patterns that led to the problem, and which continue to maintain it.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy employs techniques to modify these patterns so the client is able to take control of their behaviour.

It is an interactive therapy where the therapist acts as a guide. The principle is that the client can find their own solutions with skilled assistance. It does not involve the therapist as a “controlling” agent, or someone who dictates what is “best” for the client. It has been found that the most effective approach is for the therapist to work within the client’s model of the world, not force the client into the therapist’s.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP was developed in the 1970′s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. It is the end product of a curiosity which began by asking the question “How do people do that?”

Bandler and Grinder started by looking closely at how people who were excellent in their fields achieved the results they did. They noticed certain patterns of human sameness and difference which could be used by others to improve individual performance in many areas.

As a result of this initial curiosity a large number of techniques have been developed which can be used by people to improve their lives, and the lives of others around them.

Each of us uses an internal “map” to make sense of the world around us. By understanding the structure of our map we can identify negative thought patterns that inhibit us and change them.