NLPtCA
Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association...
...the only professional association for psychotherapists and counsellors using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP).
Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP, first emerged in the early 1970’s from the work of John Grinder, a linguistics professor and Richard Bandler, a mathematics and IT research student, at the University of Santa Cruz, California. Drawing on the work of Noam Chomsky, Alfred Korzybski, Gregory Bateson, Fritz Pearls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson, they identified a practical approach to self exploration through connecting specific and direct links between language – verbal and non verbal – (linguistic) and our internal processing (neurology) and habitual behaviours (programming).
Our ability to working incisively with language means that our therapists can quickly get to the source of the problem, without dwelling too much on peripheral history. Our highly interactive approach aligns us with the Brief Therapy movement, but not at the expense of rigour. Obviously depending on the presenting issue and, more significantly the desired outcome, the therapy can be short term – up to 10 hours, medium term or long term. The therapy may be structured or flexible depending on the needs of individual clients.
Our accredited members are all UKCP Registered and are a group of friendly individuals who welcome the opportunity to network with professionals from other modalities and to contiuously keep abreast of developments within the therapeutic field.