Vancouver And Toronto Hypnosis Hypnotherapy And NLP

Hypnotherapy, NLP And Hypnosis In Canada

I am delighted to introduce my new website based in Canada - http://www.hypnosis-vancouver-toronto.com/. I say 'my' website but actually it has been designed specifically for some brilliant associates of mine who provide one to one NLP and hypnosis sessions for people in Toronto and Vancouver. Allow me to introduce them.

Harry Nichols - NLP Master Trainer - Vancouver

I have known Harry Nichols for more than ten years and am pleased to count him as one of my best friends. Harry was formerly an apprentice of Richard Bandler (the guy who invented and developed a great deal of the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (some would say almost all of the field but I don't want to get involved in any arguments over who did what - there is more to life...))

Anyway, Harry is the guy whose voice you will hear if you get the excellent, 'Adventures of Anyone' recording by Richard Bandler. Harry brings many skills to personal change work, and operates on many levels. He is brilliant.

Kathy Welter-Nichols - NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Healer, Hypnobirthing Expert And Much More - Vancouver

Harry's life partner, Kathy, is a woman of many talents and huge experience and has been working in these fields for more than 20 years. Literally thousands of people have come to her meditation and relaxation workgroups for people suffering from Cancer. Kathy trained with the originators of 'Therapeutic Touch', she is a former Vancouver 'Volunteer of the Year', and is an all round remarkable woman. You can get her recordings from this website here - Kathy Welter-Nichols Recordings

Elizabeth Payea-Butler - NLP Master Trainer - Vancouver

There are very few NLP Master Trainers on the planet who do much one-to-one client work, and we have two of them in Canada. Elizabeth has more than fifteen years experience in client work and is one of the key assistants to Richard Bandler when he conducts NLP trainings in the USA. I am delighted that Elizabeth is part of the JustBeWell.com international team and if you are in the Toronto region then I whole-heartedly recommend that you go and see her

Therapy Or Hypnotherapy Or Hypnosis Or Hypnotist Or What?

I don't want to turn this introduction to the new website into a rant but it does seem bizarre to me that there are a bunch of legal cases in Canada, especially in Toronto, about who is 'entitled' to use the word 'therapy' or 'therapist', or 'therapist' or 'hypnotherapist'. Apparently some psychotherapists think they own certain words and are taking legal action to protect them and to prevent anyone else claiming they do therapy or hypnotherapy. How anyone can think they own a word is beyond me.

What We Do Is More Like Training Anyway

If you consider that the definition of 'therapy' is making someone feel better (stopping them from being addicted, depressed, anxious or whatever), then we are all most definitely therapists. However, if you consider the definition of the word 'therapy' to mean going over the past and talking about how awful things are in the hopes that this will make you feel better, then we are most certainly not therapists.

I am not saying that all psychotherapy is rubbish. There are some wonderful people working in the field of psychotherapy, especailly those using more pragmatic approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy.

NLP is concerned with where you are at and where you are aiming yourself, not where you have been.

Anyway, these are my opinions, not necessarily Harry's or Kathy's or Elizabeth's they are relaxed about it all and quite happy to do 'hypnosis', rather than 'hypnotherapy', and be 'hypnotists' rather than 'hypnotherapists'.

After all, they are only words, what is being done is what is important, not what you call it ...