Enabling Young Minds To Shine Brightly

My name is Jane Thomas and I am a qualified Master NLP practitioner specialising in children, young people and their families. I work in secondary schools and also with private clients in their own home or on Zoom.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) provides a framework to understand how you think and communicate, and then provides tools and techniques that enable you to make positive change. It looks at how we take in and process information and how that impacts our thoughts, behaviours and how we communicate with others. 

When looking for help for you or your family it is easy to get confused between the different types of support on offer. To help, here is a quick guide:

You probably have an understanding of what counselling entails? Counselling is a ‘talking therapy’ whereby you talk in depth about your feelings and the issues you are facing. The counsellor's role is to listen and reflect back and this is great for people who want time to talk and to offload their feelings.

CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) has some similarities with NLP. CBT focuses on changing any limiting beliefs that you might have and provides strategies for making change at a conscious level. 

NLP is the study of how we process information and how we communicate. It also works with limiting beliefs and provides many different techniques that work with your conscious and unconscious mind. As the unconscious mind is where 95% of our brain activity originates the NLP approach believes it is necessary to make changes at this level in order to create lasting change.