How I can help

How I can use my skills drawn from NLP, Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness to help you improve your mental skills and performance and resilience

I help those who would like:

  • Mental Skills Development and Performance coaching
  • Stress Management
  • To change how they feel
  • Assistance in achieving their goals.
  • Mental skills and life coaching
and I'm experienced with helping those with issues such as:
  • Anxieties
  • Lack of confidence or Self Confidence.
  • Sleep problems
  • Migraine
  • Phobias

Using the tools and techniques below, I help people get the mental change they want and the life they want.

I use a collaborative approach, it's a "do with", not "do to" way of working.

I work with clients to help them use and maximise their resources.

 

How?

  • Listening & discussion
  • Using guided meditation techniques,
  • Personal recordings
  • Bio-feedback technology,
  • Heart Rate Variability monitoring
  • Mental Assessments
  • A wealth of performance improvement, belief change and  mental techniques

I can help you deal with the real causes of mental performance issues.

Usually in 1 : 1 sessions or even in small groups, I utilise my experience and knowledge in helping people to relieve anxieties, change their thinking, teach them how to focus and improve their concentration whilst remaining calm and relaxed.

Sessions

Sessions are between 90 minutes and as long as 3 hours.

Initially, the first session will be exploratory, to see if I can help, what the issues are and whether or not you, the client, are also happy and comfortable to work with me.

With an understanding of what outcomes are needed, further sessions will consist of reviews of previous sessions, ongoing discussion as well as teaching skills, tools and techniques to help the client change their thinking and deal with the issues that face them.

Further sessions are usually 2 weeks apart, with ongoing support being provided as required.

Find out more below, about the tools, techniques and methods I use to help:

Brain Tuning & Performance Coaching


With his work in motorsport mind coach Don Macpherson, popularised the term "Brain Tuning" to describe his process.

Greg also uses the concept of "brain tuning" to help people in high stress, high concentration, high performance environments, perform at their peak.

By quietening their "monkey mind" and increasing focus & concentration, reducing stress and aided by specific breathing and visualising techniques, the mind can function unimpeded by the "chattering monkey."

Coaching, Mentoring

Coaching, mentoring and the above performance coaching all have goals in mind.

It is a forward looking, solution based approach, that focuses on getting results, overcoming hurdles and maximising potential.

Everyone has different motivations and drivers that push them forward.

Recognising and maximising these, I help my clients achieve, and get the results they want.

NLP & NLP Therapy

Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, came about after the methodologies of great therapists were analysed and then modelled to distill the details of how leading therapists got great results.

Almost 40 years later NLP is continually updated and revised, with new methodologies and frameworks being developed all the time, while retaining the core idea.

NLP offers structures, tools and techniques to help people get the outcome they want. To think better and to increase their options.

These techniques can be used for therapy, anxieties, phobias, and changing limiting thoughts and beliefs, as well as goal setting and performance enhancement, and improvements in life, sports, and business.

As a Certified and Accredited NLP Practitioner and Practitioner Coach, I can help people, access the resources they have and teach them how to improve their thinking and choices.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness, is a way of being. Another tool to "quieten the monkey in our mind".

Mindfulness, is not a "spiritual" practice, although it can be for those who want it.

Rather, it is a way of being that allows you to "jump off" the merry go round of thoughts in your head and be more passive, less judgmental about your thoughts.

Learning to be mindful can help, reduce the chatter in your head and lead to greater sense of wellbeing, calm and relaxed focus.

Coupled with other tools and techniques it can be used to help reduce the effects of stress, anxiety and depression.

I hold a diploma in Mindfulness and can teach clients to be more mindful and enjoy the benefits that being more mindful brings.

I am currently also studying for another diploma in mCBT, or mindfulness based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy..

Hypnotherapy

The word "hypnosis" conjures up all sorts of pictures and associations with people.

It's not sleep.

You can't be made to do things you otherwise wouldn't do normally.

It's not "voodoo". It is a state of calm, focused relaxation.

At it's core however, all it is, is communication with your Unconscious mind.

Watching a movie and not realising 3 hours have passed. That's a type of hypnosis.

Driving on a journey and not remembering it, but arriving at your destination. That's a type of hypnosis.

It's just the automatic, non-conscious things we think and do, all done by the subconscious, and hypnosis, is one way of talking to the "you of you".

The Unconscious mind filters, responds and reacts to everything you experience before any of those experiences are passed on to your conscious mind for you to hear, see, feel, taste etc.

Your Unconscious mind can be your greatest asset as well as contributing to or causing unintentional problems.

Old ways of thinking that no longer serve the purpose they once did, emotional events of the past that still affect you today, can be found in the Unconscious mind.

However the Unconscious mind is also a genius and can be shown new, better, more resourceful ways of thinking.

 

As a Qualified, Certified and Accredited Hypnotherapist I can, where suitable, use hypnosis to help clients access the resources they need or the change they want with the help of their Unconscious mind.

Mental Skills & Life Coaching

Lots of people in their life could do with a coach. A manager, a cheerleader for "you".

Someone who'll listen to you, someone who'll help you get what you want.

Small goals / Big goals - Fitness goal - Lifestyle goals, Financial goals, Career or Business goals.

Life coaching is there to help you.

Life coaching helps you get and keep momentum, but also keeps you accountable.

Strategies and plans, helping you understand what's important to you and help you get more of what you want, and helping you discover what you want, is all part of life coaching.

HRV – Heart Rate Variability

Heart Rate Variability is the difference in time between each heart beat.

"Reduced HRV has been shown to be a predictor of mortality after myocardial infarction   A range of other outcomes/conditions may also be associated with modified (usually lower) HRV, including congestive heart failure, diabetic neuropathy, depression, post-cardiac transplant, susceptibility to SIDS and poor survival in premature babies ."

The greater the difference, the increase in variability.

Heart Beat Variability, is used in sports science, and studies show that HRV biofeedback lowers the anxiety and thus there seems to be a potential association between HRV biofeedback and performance optimization.

I use HRV monitoring and training in sessions to demonstrate the beneficial effects of the tools and techniques he uses and to teach people proper breathing.

Brain & Mental Assessment

Assessing and benchmarking mental and emotional abilities and states can be very useful for assessing progress and helping clients continue to practice what they have learned, train their minds in between sessions.

Where suitable, I can utilise online tools to help monitor and maintain progress.

Also where required using the same EEG measurement, and concentration/relaxation training exercises as used by Dr Riccardo Ceccarelli, from Italian sports medicine clinic 'Formula Medicine', as seen recently on BBC F1 coverage.

A client is given an online account and after initial assessment is given tasks and "games" to do in focused areas; emotional, leadership, focus, relaxation.

Guided Meditation & Breathing

Learning to breathe properly, is a very effective way of reducing mental stress, emotional stress and physical stress.

I teach clients how to breathe "properly" for best effect. This has benefits with anxiety, stress as well as calming an "over-revving" mind and body.

Coupled with guided meditation, I can help people how to relax and reduce their stress responses in certain situations or for general practice to achieve a lower stress level by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.

When required I also provide custom recordings, for the individual to help them with their practice or to help with specific requests or situations the client requires.

What are you waiting for?

Do you know what you want?

It's the base upon which everything else is built.

Clearly identify and be aware of what's important to you and what you actually want, take action and move towards it and the rest follows.
We all have skills, we all have strengths.

Sometimes we focus on trying to develop our weaker points rather than building on our strengths.

Know what you want and then developing a plan to move towards it.

Figure out your values, your skills and strengths and align your life to them.
Nothing changes if Nothing changes.

As the saying goes "Change is inevitable, Progress is optional"

To begin to create and get the life you want you have to start taking action.
Ecology first.

When you start planning and making changes, it's always a good idea to make sure what you are doing and planning is "ecological".

How will what you are doing or planning affect every are of your life and those around you, positively and possibly negatively.

Take every aspect into consideration.

Choose coaching

We have a lot of way to learn for your choice.

Scheduled

Maintain progress by scheduling sessions and "check in" calls with me. You can even schedule and pay for your sessions securely online.

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coaching support

Support doesn't end at the end of our session. I keep in regular contact with all my clients to ensure they keep the momentum that they build and keep moving forwards.

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1 to 1 coaching

Coaching sessions can be 60 mins they might be 2 hours. It's about progress and making a real difference for you, that's the difference working with me.

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coaching online

Can't get to me for face to face sessions? I provide online sessions using Skype and Zoom so wherever you are in the world , whatever your time zone, I'm still available to help and work with you.

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MP3

Where suitable I supply my clients with either pre-recorded or custom MP3's to help continue and enhance the work carried out in our sessions.

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book & course

Currently under development is a book and a course to help cover the basics of managing and moving past stress and anxiety that can prevent us from taking action and achieving what we want.

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Tell me what you want

I don't know who you are, but i'll find you and i'll help you.