Choosing an NLP Practitioner or Hypnotherapist

A Check List for deciding who to see

Here are some pointers to deciding how to choose an NLP Practitioner or Hypnotherapist

• Speak to the potential practitioner before agreeing to see them and ask about their experience in working with the type of condition you are interested in working on to satisfy yourself that they can be of help
• Although certifications are in no way an indication of skills, check to see who the person trained with and how long they have been seeing paying clients.
• Ask if the client sessions are recorded and if you would be obtaining a copy of the session
• Check that the practitioner is not "a jack of all trades" offering NLP, EFT, TFT, Reiki et al, and that you know what you are going to be paying to receive. Informed consent is important in any therapeutic relationship, and to attend for one treatment modality only to receive another is not going to be particularly useful for a variety of reasons. Hypnotherapy can encompass all sorts of modalities currently, so specific discussion prior to booking an appointment will enable you to make appropriate informed decisions about whether or not to pick this particular practitioner.
• Check to see where the client session takes place. I would always advise a public building with appropriate receptionist staff and infrastructure, rather than a person's home. Let's also remember that hundreds of practitioners rent space in Harley Street in the hope that this association will bolster interest in business. No doubt there are some excellent practitioners who work in this particular location, but beware the person who name drops this association alone, as if this is all that is required to impress potential clients with claims of their ability without be able to substantiate their skills by additional means.
• Follow your instinct. If you don't feel comfortable with speaking to the person on the phone prior to a session, or have any kind of nagging feeling that this is not a good option for you, then follow your instincts and look elsewhere.

There are many excellent practitioners and hypnotherapists and it is an excellent therapeutic skill set, enabling people to make wonderful changes and be much more comfortable in life and have increased options in their future.

Most excellent practitioners run very busy private practices. It's often like booking a table at a restaurant; the best ones will always have some kind of waiting list, but are those are definitely worth waiting for.

I usually have at least a two week waiting list to see new clients. Prior to agreeing a meeting I always request that each client complete a full set of requested client notes, so that time is then used to best effect. I always record sessions so that clients can listen back to a session subsequently, and find this a very useful tool.

As a private practitioner one obviously has to fund one's own administrative and professional infrastructure and this is necessarily factored into the cost of a session. Some private medical insurance schemes will cover hypnotherapy and it is worth exploring this. I have not mentioned anything about my own prices in this article, and these can be found on my website under the section on pricing and location for sessions.

I hope this has been helpful, if you have further questions I can be contacted at info@nickkemp.com

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