Nick Kemp - an NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist and Provocative Therapist

The founders of NLP

The creators of NLP were concerned with the "how and what questions" rather than "the why questions". In other words both Richard Bandler and John Grinder sought to determine what each client was doing to create "the problem" rather than "why" they had the problem.

Both co-creators of NLP originally studied Gestalt Therapy, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Provocative Therapy and other successful therapeutic approaches. All these forms of personal change are far more common place these days than in the 1970s and lots of therapists, life coaches, NLP Practitioners, NLP Master Practitioners and NLP Trainers will use aspects of these different ways of working in their practice.

Some people when first exploring Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, may be interested in focussing on specific NLP techniques. These include working with timelines, which has been also referred to as "Timeline Therapy".

Finding the Best Therapist

Before deciding to invest any time or money in seeing a therapist or NLP Practitioner, first explore what they have to offer. Look at their website and explore how long they have been working in this sphere, what training they have had and especially their own philosophy for change work. Frank Farrelly originally studied Client Centred Therapy or CCT with Carl Rodgers before then creating his own Provocative Therapy.

Nick Kemp

I have been fortunate enough to study with Richard Bandler since the 1990s and then from 2004 onwards spend considerable time with Frank Farrelly, I use an integrated approach in my Leeds private practice of NLP, Hypnosis and Provocative Therapy. In Sept 2008 and 2010 I gave a number of presentations at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Health or IASH conference in San Francisco detailing the differences between NLP, Provocative Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis. Read the many different articles on this website and then get in touch to find out even more about working with Nick Kemp

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