How does NLP differ from Psychology, Psychiatry and Life Coaching?
Both psychiatry and psychology tend to focus on the content of what happened. Hence psychiatrists and psychologist will spend considerable time having you describe your problem, which may also involve a reliving of the events. Both psychiatry and psychology ask ‘why’ the client has a problem. They analyse the client until they decide upon a diagnosis which invariably means the client wears a label. Both psychiatry and psychology are closely related to the medical model and they aim to be scientific in their approach. Life Coaching seems to be an updated version of Counselling. From the view point of NLP, Life Coaching is no more effective than psychiatry and psychology. Some NLP’ers may use the term NLP Life Coaching as a means to attract more business. If you want to get rapid gentle change then you need to employ the services of a Master NLP Practitioner who also has training in Hypnotherapy. NLP is solution oriented. NLP is process oriented. NLP is not interested in why you have a p
