Case Study Part II

Continuing where I left off, sharing my work with my manicurist . . .

It was obvious to me that she was suffering from severe PTSD. After being in counseling for the better part of 30 years, she was still having severe fear reactions. Fortunately, she was open to trying something different that might help her find her self-esteem.

We soon worked with releasing her fight/flight reactive response with the NLP trauma/phobia process, as well as Edu-K for releasing stored memories from her physiology. Within a few sessions, she felt a burden had been lifted. She was happier and felt freer than she had for many years. Even her friends and family recognized a significant change.

As a psychotherapist, I believe it is my job to help people get results; however, this has not been used as a measure by many in my field.

Most services we hire and pay for, we expect to get results. For example, if our car wasn’t working and we took it to a mechanic and all they did was diagnose it, tell us what was wrong and the underlying reasons why, without offering solutions, we wouldn’t hire that mechanic.

Why are we willing to do just that with our own emotional health and well-being?

Early in my career, I read the book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him by Sheldon Kopp where I learned that people want things to change, but usually don’t want to do anything to change themselves. People are willing to go into psychotherapy for years, acting like they are working on their issues while accepting continuation of the same unwanted habits and patterns. In my field, we refer to this as “resistance.” 

I help people find ways to be willing and motivated to do something different and teach them to change past unwanted patterns and experiences.