Gilligan carries the Erickson lineage forward in clinical register: his self-relations work keeps the utilisation principle while returning to proper psychotherapeutic grounding. For NLP readers he represents what the lineage looks like when it stays inside clinical scope.
Stephen Gilligan
Stephen Gilligan (b. 1954), American psychologist — direct student of Milton Erickson and early NLP community member who developed self-relations psychotherapy.
Free live session
You've read about it. Now watch it work.
ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026