How is NLP and the Clear the Fear Process different than psychotherapy?
The leading edge techniques of NLP, Time Line, Ericksonian Hypnosis, & EFT go far beyond what conventional talk therapy is able to accomplish. Talk therapy is useful in many ways and helpful. However It operates under a different set of beliefs and philosophies that in my opinion limit it’s effectiveness (e.g. “change takes a long time”) The process I use enables rapid immediate change. It is quite typical for me to assist someone with a severe phobia in a single day to walk away free from his or her fear. Psychotherapy often takes weeks and months to achieve any change. Even then, it is mostly in the realm of “forcing” yourself to “face the fear and do it anyway”. The technique, called “de-sensitization” gradually exposes the client to the source of his or her fear. Not only does this take too long, in my opinion it carries with it the danger of re-traumatizing the client. I worked with a psychotherapist once who had several severe phobias. After working with him for 2 hours in the mo
This is actually two questions in one, because the "Clear the Fear" technique is not an authentic NLP-related technique. On the contrary, if the details on the clearfear.com website are to be believed it actually belongs to conventional Gestalt Therapy – including the psychoarchaeology.
As to "NLP" – this is different from psychotherapy because it is a specific, non-analytical modelling technique, not a form of therapy at all.
The FoNLP (field of NLP) – which includes NLP, associated concepts and techniques and related training – does include a handful of techniques based on patterns used by psychotherapists. However the vast majority of NLP-related techniques are about improving communications and are applicable in a wide variety of contexts.
In fact the FoNLP overall is generative rather than remedial.
