Nick Kemp - a Provocative Change Works™ Approach to Therapy
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My approach to client therapy is to tackle the unwanted thinking and behaviour. This approach, using Provocative Change Works and hypnotherapy approaches working with each client as a unique individual to produce a greater sense of well being and importantly make those changes that provide the positive outcome in relation to the problem.
Some of the most common things clients work with me on:
- Blushing
- Jealousy
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Improved public speaking
- Developing relaxation strategies
- Better Relaxation
- Stress
Although the above conditions may appear entirely different on the surface, there are common patterns that emerge in each instance. By changing the patterns and the emotional responses that create these patterns, many clients finally discover greater freedoms and choices in life.
All unhelpful habits are an abnormal response to a place or thing. It has been said by many that the only natural fears are sudden loud noises and fear of falling, so all abnormal responses are 'learned behaviours'. A person could have created the abnormal response in a number of different ways and of course how they created it is not the central issue. What's important is how they break out of the unhelpful cycle so they have a more appropriate response for their own sense of well being. The most common anxieties are fear of public speaking, flying, spiders, enclosed spaces and large crowds. PCW focuses on changing the behaviours of clients so they are provoked into new ways of thinking and feeling.
During my BBC appearances I found that changes to anxieties can happen in a very short period of time, regardless of how long the person had the condition. One person who had been scared of birds for 50 years was out feeding birds within twenty minutes of the session!
Other common issues like Blushing, jealousy, anxiety and anger management benefit from creating better 'state control' in the client. In many of these situations the client finds themselves caught in 'an emotional loop' where they keep exhibiting the same behavioural pattern over and over again regardless of how much they analyse or think about 'the problem'. Clients can change the emotional response that triggers the problem and recode the old behaviour to create greater freedom of choice for the client so they know useful change has occurred.
The client may have already thought almost everything there is to think about the problem and sometimes spent hours, days, months and even years talking about it, without changing the actual behaviour! Clients may fall into the trap of researching what they consider to be 'the problem' and then self diagnose so that they now refer to themselves with generalised labels. It's extremely important to seek proper medical assessment so that significant conditions can be assessed and treated effectively. However, there is a growing recognition that persistent sub-diagnosis threshold issues can still cause considerable distress, and may benefit from assistance. Hypnosis and Provocative Change Works focus directly on changing these old patterns of thinking so that clients can then practice new responses in the circumstances which previously they had an unhelpful response to.
On the right hand side of this site, you will see a list of some of the conditions I have helped clients overcome
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