What does an NLP Practitioner's certification mean? |
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When looking for an NLP practitioner, you may come across many different forms of NLP Certification. You will come across people with titles such as NLP Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, Confidence Coach, NLP Trainer, Personal Development Specialist, Time Line Therapist, NLP Coaches, NLP Therapist, and the list goes on. |
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So what does it all mean?The basic NLP certification is the NLP practitioner, followed by the NLP Master Practitioner. Both enable an NLP practitioner to help their clients with many issues. The main difference between the two certifications is flexibility. Both practitioner and NLP master practitioner have the same foundation of skills including rapport building, anchoring, and hypnotic language. On top of that an NLP Practitioner has a toolbox of techniques to use in particular instances, whereas a master practitioner has been trained to develop techniques themselves. This difference can be quite clear during a session. An NLP practitioner may spend a session trying to find out which of their methods to use for a specific issue, whereas a master practitioner will be working to create an intervention on the fly. |
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As to the other titles, these are usually chosen by the individual to help with their marketing. There is no internationally recognized training to become a "Confidence Coach", or a "Personal Development Specialist", and these titles are used simply to differentiate the practitioner from others and suggest their specialization. There are also several specialized NLP trainings for practitioners such as "Time Line Therapy" to add to the practitioners toolbox. There are also courses providing specific applications of NLP for people wanting to improve their lives. The Mythogenic Self process developed by Joseph Riggio is one such training. While some of these trainings are really useful, they are not developed to fix specific problems, but are more about generating new behaviors and skills. The key to choosing a practitioner is ensuring that they have either a practitioner or master practitioner certificate. Also it may be useful if they specialize in the area in which you need help. |
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