Nick Kemp - Magic Wand Mindsets

Client Expectations

When Paul McKenna ran NLP trainings regularly in London, I used to receive regular referrals from his office for my practice in Leeds. I had also trained with his company in the 1990s and assisted on numerous NLP and Hypnosis courses for a number of years up until 2003 before I set up my own training business. This was an invaluable apprenticeship in dealing with a huge range of individual expectational sets, especially as many clients (despite being repeatedly told) came to these NLP and Hypnosis courses for "therapy" Many such individuals expected what I term "the magic wand approach" where the practitioner would in a few moments magically remove all the clients problems without the client having to make any kind of change or do any kind of work whatsoever! I have trained with and spoken to many of the very best therapists on the planet, no therapist or practitioner can guarantee 100% success rate, and I would consider anyone claiming this as extremely suspect. When I see clients they receive my very best attention from years of experience working in this field and in most instances clients feedback that I have an extremely high success rate.

The "Magic Wand Mindset"

This "magic wand mind set" can also occur in private practice and can also result in some very strange requests for resolving problems. Memorable examples include a guy who wanted me to hypnotise him so he forgot he was ever married, stating "Just knock me out hypnotically!" and another client who wanted me to teach him to become a "babe magnet"! Tell tale signs of such behaviour can often be spotted in client communications and especially when I hear the immortal phrase "It's your job to fix me!" which translates to "I'm not going to do anything different in terms of how I think and act, BUT I expect change AND if I don't get it within 60 minutes I'TS YOUR FAULT! Most conditions will require two to three sessions for best results providing clients complete any exercises they have been given."

Magical Change

Fortunately many such clients having read the website and the client notes have an appreciation and understanding that although there can be all manner of magical change through the use of NLP, Hypnotherapy and Provocative Therapy, change requires co-operation from both parties involved in the session work. As I say to clients "Keep doing the same thing you always did, keep getting the same thing you always got!"

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