What kind of issues can an NLP practitioner help with?

Chris Harrison - June 2007
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It’s an unfortunate aspect of some NLP Practitioner trainings that they leave the practitioner thinking they can fix anything.

One thing I have learnt is that working with individuals on a practitioner course is not the same as working with ‘members of the public’ with real problems (well as real as a behavioral problem can be).

The easiest issues to solve with NLP are issues that are very context specific.

For instance, a Flying phobia has a very clear context, whereas Social Phobia may occur is a number of contexts, and is therefore often more complex.

This will obviously affect the ease with which a practitioner can resolve the issue.

That is not to say that an NLP practitioner cannot help with Social Phobia, they certainly can, but that it may involve many more interventions and 'adjustments'.

And don’t forget that NLP techniques are not only used to fix problems, they can be used to improve things that you are already good at.

So here is a short list of common problems that practitioners may offer help with:

• Weight Loss
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Decision Making
• Social Phobia/Anxiety
• Smoking Cessation
• Compulsions
• Interview and Presentation Nerves
• Breast enlargement (yes really)
• Phobias ( I define a phobia as any stimulus that gets a strong negative response that makes you move away - quickly. Anything from spiders to baked beans).