Sometimes called “tapping”. EFT is used to teach clients where to tap on specific points on the body.  These points are always in the upper body on the “meridians” used during acupuncture. EFT gives clients a simple copying strategy to help themselves control behaviours and worries. It is particularly useful in controlling phobias and performance anxieties. It gives people the ability to overcome self-defeating emotional patterns, helping them to achieve a higher level of psychological well-being. 

NLP was developed in early 1970s with Dr Richard Bandler, an information  scientist and Dr John Grinder, a linguistic professor. They named it Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. They simply asked the question “How do people do that?” They discovered ways of producing extremely rapid change.

Doing something well, consistently,, is not an accident – it is a process.

Doing something badly, consistently, is not an accident it is a process.

NLP is a tool for improvement, using our neurology and thinking patterns (neuro), our way of expressing our thoughts and their influence on us (linguistic) and our patterns of behaviour and goal setting (programming.) It could be described as software for the brain .

We never lose the ability to change.

An age old practice that comes from Buddhism.  You do NOT need to be a Buddhist to practise mindfulness. It is the skill of being fully present in the moment.  By learning to become fully present, it enables us to gain clarity of thought and improved concentration. We are sometimes programmed to repeat and re-enact learned negative responses. This can result in the development of often unhelpful habitual behaviours and thought patterns that may lead to problems such as anxiety, anger or low mood.   By moving the focus away from ruminating about the past or fretting about the future, one can better engage with and deal with the here and now.  It sounds so simple, but few of us can achieve this consistently. By learning mindfulness techniques, one can learn to be more grounded, more resilient and even more creative.  Mindfulness creates the conditions for making healthy and adaptive choices in life.

Hypnoanalysis is sometimes used to help clients become comfortable or accepting of past events in their lives.  These events might have been very painful at the time, but they have happened and cannot be changed. Sometimes past events are still having a strong effect in a person’s life.  Analysis can help clients move past these events letting go of old anger and pain, enabling them to live their life in the present moment.

Dr. Ronald Ruden is the creator of The Havening Techniques. The Havening Techniques  are a psycho sensory method which use input (touch) intended to eliminate the consequences arising from stressful or traumatic events. It is a series of actions (including counting, repetitive movement, humming, moving eyes laterally, deep breathing) to disrupt the working memory. It can be done with a havening practitioner, or  by oneself once learned. It can be useful for panic attacks, and stress responses,