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How Clients ‘Do’ Their Problems

By Steve Andreas NLP can help you do the ‘briefest’ therapy  Published in: Psychotherapy Networker, November/December, 2007, pp. 63-67 Recently I watched a public demonstration at a large psychotherapy conference conducted by a celebrated therapist with a female clinician in her forties. The therapist connected quickly with full attention, warmth, humor, understanding, and many other …

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Changing the “Not Self”

by Steve Andreas ©2002 This is chapter 11 of Steve’s book: Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be. An earlier version was published in Anchor Point, Vov. 16, No. 7, July, pp. 4-13        When people speak of a “negative self-concept,” what they usually mean is that someone has a self-concept that is negatively-valued.  …

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Building a New Quality of Self-concept*

by Steve Andreas ©2002 Excerpt from the book, Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be          We have been exploring the impact and the interaction of both process and content variables in making a quality of your self-concept durable and responsive to feedback. We have also explored the importance of integrating counterexamples, and …

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“Kinesthetic Swish”*

by Steve Andreas ©1998 Introduction         In their recent Anchor Point article (September 1998, pp 33-37),  Michael Hall and Debra Lederer present a procedure which they call  “The Kinesthetic Swish Pattern.”         I am sure that the pattern they present is useful to clients, since it includes the following elements or patterns:      1. “At least” four spatial …

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