Notes on the thing NLP was before it became a certificate.
What NLP is, how it actually works, what survived testing and what did not. Written by the people who teach it, for people who want to understand it rather than collect it.
Cognitive behavioural therapy and neuro-linguistic programming get compared constantly, but they are different kinds of things. Here is the honest side-by-side, including the evidence gap.
NLP borrowed heavily from Milton Erickson, the hypnotherapist, but it is not hypnosis. Here is where the two genuinely overlap, where they diverge, and the ethics of both.
NLP can help with the habits, triggers and identity behind eating. It cannot override physiology, and the evidence for weight loss is thin. Here is the honest version.
Symbolic Modelling is a therapeutic and coaching method built on Clean Language. It lets a client's own metaphors reorganise their experience, from the inside out, at their own pace.
Timeline therapy treats time as a spatial map you can walk around in. Here is how it works, what the science does and does not support, and how it is trained responsibly.
Tony Robbins is the most famous popularizer of NLP ideas in the world. Here is his actual connection to the field, what he kept, what he replaced, and an honest verdict on his methods.