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Originally Posted by lisamarie
With all due respect, do you not see the contradiction in the two sentences I put in bold? If they have almost the same premises, how can one be effective and one not? 
For the record, I am a licensed, insured, and certified hypnotherapist. I do have a psychology background (BS in Health Studies with a minor in Psych)and am beginning a master's program in psych in January. |
It all depends of what you do with it. Just like there are millions of people that read the bible but not everyone of them does the same thing. Some people who will go to a NLP-oriented therapist will see an improvement, but this doesn't mean that NLP is a valid theory in itself. There's a placebo effect in psychotherapy, which means that people who see anyone (therapist or not) for something that they believe to be a therapy, there will be an improvement. Only a handful of therapies have been proven to be more effective than the psychological placebo, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) being one of them. And it's not because someone follows the CBT guidelines that he's successful with it, there has to be some formation that last years because when there's someone giving you access to their private life and believe that you are competent, the results can actually be worse.