The Foundation and Intermediate courses with BeeLeaf are incorporated with NLP Practitioner and Master  Practitioner certification. This is possible through our  extensive post-graduate format that provides the opportunity for home assignments and projects and an integrated journey of self, peer, trainer and examiner assessment. Contemporary Psychotherapy is, like NLP, a trans-theoretical model that focuses on “what works”. It is sectioned within UKCP as a form of Hypno-Psychotherapy as much of its influence comes from the work of Milton H. Erickson and his successors.

Contemporary Psychotherapy works with the naturally occurring creative and restorative altered states of the individual and provides an arena to utilise inner attention and imagination to stimulate internal reorganisation, created entirely by the client. Most schools of psychotherapy are not about providing answers or cures, but about engaging in a relationship of benign curiosity and acceptance and offering questions and activities that invite a person to experience their world differently and to create for themselves new more satisfying solutions and meaning.

Contemporary Psychotherapy is a “post-schoolist” model that explores how different successful applications of psychotherapy achieve this.As much NLP was modelled on the beliefs, values, behaviours and language of leading psychotherapists, there are implicitly present in NLP many of the core   presuppositions and models of the main modalities of psychotherapy such as psycho-dynamic, Gestalt, family systems, hypno-psychotherapy and solution focused therapy. NLP has always been the art and science of asking questions in order to study and model subjective experience and this additional acuity of the practitioner heightens their skills, whatever tradition ofpsychotherapy they come from. Approaching these methods of seeing and working through the disciplines of NLP provide an opportunity to uncover the underlying patterns and differences in these models and flexibly utilise the strengths in each and observe too the limitations of each.

Learning NLP with these additional nuances, frames and information supports the development of a more flexible and ecological application of NLP. At BeeLeaf we believe that theory, model and intervention are useful as a way to begin with the client until the organic co-created process for the individual takes over. As Milton Erickson put it, when the technique fails – the psychotherapy begins! On these courses you will experience a uniquely integrated presentation of psychotherapy that prepares the individual psychotherapist to be an informed and flexible practitioner, working with an awareness that the client is an ever-resourceful, self-balancing system. Within the unique system of each human being, we  believe that “resistance” is a force field around important values that the client wishes to integrate into any change they decide to make, whether this happens consciously or unconsciously. Above all, the Contemporary Psychotherapy model prepares the practitioner for a “realistic clinical optimism”. We can afford this because in Contemporary Psychotherapy we prepare ourselves with the best options for treatment that our field can currently offer, updating our possibilities as new information emerges, and then by stepping into a place of “not knowing”, to be guided by the client’s unfolding process, to honour and witness it, thus giving it permission and dignity.