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Coaching is a long-established method to help sportspeople and business people achieve their goals. But did you know that coaches can help you achieve your health goals? A coach is someone who consistently holds the focus for your highest potential, believes in you, and guides you through, using their knowledge of the issues and pitfalls en-route. Coaching is about spotting opportunities for improvements as well as sharing tools and tips to help you to move forward. A coach helps remind you of how far you have come and supports you to recognise your qualities, skills, and achievements

Meditation and mindfulness are vital practices that focus on increasing your awareness and deepening your understanding of your experience and the world around you. Developing the skill of observing and witnessing your own experience gives you precious access to how you function in your everyday life. This gives you clues to what needs changing in order to feel better.

Emotional Freedom Technique, often referred to as EFT, is a method of bringing together the Chinese meridian/energy-lines system used in acupuncture with western psychology. Instead of stimulating the meridian points with needles, with EFT you tap on the meridian points with your own fingers while speaking about what’s going on. The effect is aligning your brain and your body, to bring your whole system into balance. EFT is a field within Energy Psychology.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, referred to as NLP, is a model about patterns of behaviour, thoughts, and experiences. NLP facilitates improving your experience by mapping how you travel from where you are now to where you want to be. As the name suggests, it is about how your neurology (or brain) is programmed to the way you use language when you think, talk, and feel. Neuroscience shows how this can be reprogrammed and that you can change the way you think, talk, and feel. NLP draws on Behavioural Psychology, Hypnosis, Gestalt and Family therapy.

We are all in some form of hypnosis all of the time unless we are truly in the now, the present moment. We might be remembering a conversation from earlier, remembering an event from the past, anticipating what is going to happen later . What are we saying to ourselves about the the things we are thinking about? We might be in hypnosis of anxiety, hypnosis of depression, hypnosis of worry, hypnosis of self-judgment, OR is it a hypnosis about excitement of the future?  

Clinical hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, uses methods where you gently close your eyes to more easily access your subconscious with the help of your practitioner. Closed-eye protocols help you use your own imagination and knowledge to feel better. This method can help release past trauma and change unhelpful habits. It is invaluable to reduce experiences such as stress (including PTSD) and address symptoms like physical pain. The style of therapeutic hypnosis used is permissive and empathic, and so although very powerful, it is driven by ethics and compassion.