Paul Handforth, HND, Cert.NLP, Dip Hyp.

My aim

To provide you with the best opportunity to bring about the changes in your life that you want to bring about.

My promise

You will receive my personal attention and the programme that we use will be tailored to your individual needs.

Further more I will endeavour to help you bring about the desired change in as short a period as possible, (in many cases this may be as little as a single 90 minute session).

My Role

To help my clients overcome their self-limiting behaviour and beliefs. We all have them and often family, friends or teachers have planted them at an early age. Or the may appear in later life as a result of comments from work colleagues or by our own flawed interpretation of events and experiences.

We are all capable of so much more than we allow our selves to achieve.

My role is to help you change and modify these self-limiting beliefs and behaviours using positive, relaxing, and enjoyable techniques, so that you can achieve the things in life that you really ant to achieve.

My background

I have twenty-five years experience as a Training and Organisational Development Consultant and has been a practicing hypnotherapist for fifteen years.

Fifteen years ago I established the first stress management centre in Northern Ireland working mainly with individuals.

Over a number of years I came to recognise that best way to manage and indeed avoid stress, is by developing positive strategies and approaches to problems and situations. This helps to reduce and often alleviate the stress completely and provides clients with new motivation and confidence.

As a consequence I undertook, to train in NLP. I chose to do this training with, Dr Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, who has spent thirty years developing his highly acclaimed approach. He is recognised, world wide as an authority in modelling and re-modelling human behaviour.

My experiences with NLP ha s resulted in a change of emphasis from focusing on helping clients manage negative situations, to helping clients create new positive situations in their lives.

My approach

As a life coach I draw upon a number of techniques to bring about the changes that you want to make. These may be used individually or in combination. At all times I will explain how each work and how they may benefit you. I will not progress until I am sure that you are comfortable to move on.

All of the techniques that I use direct clients towards positive future change. Many clients comment on how relaxing and enjoyable the process is. Furthermore they tell me that they are go away with a new insight and understanding of the way they approach certain aspects of their life.

Life change techniques include: -

Life Planning Strategies
Developed over 20 years of experience in training, personal development and stress management.

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
NLP has been developed over the past thirty years from studies, which have modelled human behaviour. Of particular interest is the way that different people perceive the same events in different ways. NLP enables us to develop simple modelling techniques, which can be used to change your associations and reactions in specific situations. Replacing negative responses with positive ones.

Light Trance Hypnosis
This is simply a deep state of relaxation and altered awareness. This state allows you to filter out every day distractions so that the unconscious part of your mind - that part which controls 90% of what you do - can respond more effectively to positive suggestions. Thus allowing you to the changes that you wish to make.
In light trance hypnosis you will feel very relaxed, but you will be conscious at all times. You will be aware of what is going on around you and you will be encourage to actively participate in the programme at all times.

EFT
Emotional Freedom Technique is a fairly recent development, based upon the energy meridians, which are used in Eastern medicine. EFT uses the same points that are utilised in acupuncture and acupressure. Using a simple tapping routine, whilst concentrating on the emotional state that needs to be changed, can be very effective in releasing that state.