The Integrative Approach

Do you want to attract a steady stream of clients to you for a truly successful therapy practice?

Learn how training in integrative therapy can do just that!

If you didn't want the above I would have to make a couple of assumptions:

Either

you are just plain mad.....

You already have dozens of clients!

your performance anxiety stops you taking on more clients

Imagine for one moment, that you have 20 clients this week.....What are you feeling? Fear or excitement? Think about it! Think about what you already know and how you will stretch to seeing all those clients. If you can't imagine it, then it's unlikely to happen. That's the natural law of attraction.

If you are anywhere near the fear end of that spectrum then you need to keep reading. If I could help you learn to feel more confident about a long client list, and you can start to imagine being busy with clients every week, what do you think will happen? The more we imagine it, the more it is likely to happen.

So here I want to ask a few timely questions....

Do you want to expand your client list?

Do you want to have a successful and flexible practice?

Do you want to feel confident?

If you answer 'NO' to any one of those, either you're not a therapist or you really are plain mad!

But before I go accusing you of things I haven't yet explored with you, carry on reading about what are some of hypnotherapists' biggest complaints.....

Hypnotherapists' Biggest Complaints

See if you can see yourself in any of these:

Clients think I can just wave a magic wand
I'm tired of trying to explain that hypnosis isn't magic while carefully trying to avoid any suggestion that they won't get better!
Clients think I can produce miracles every session
I often feel guilty if clients don't have a massive breakthrough every session
I get anxious near the end of my 6 or 12 sessions I said it would take to get them well, and they're still not well
I get anxious because I'm running out of techniques
I wonder whether I might fail in this case
I find myself dreading certain clients
My supervision isn't indepth enough
My supervisor keeps coming out the with same solutions to different problems
I feel I have my hands tied with the treatment model I use
I'm confused about whether to dare to hug my clients or not
I'm anxious about how to refer someone on when I can no longer be of help to a client
I have a really challenging client who is draining me and I can't seem to close down my energy
There are certain conditions I hate treating.... I never seem to have any success with OCD, for example.
Sometimes I feel too much sympathy for my clients and end up worrying uselessly about their case
I'm frightened to and don't know how to challenge my clients – How do I do that without offending them?
I've learned so many techniques and I still feel unconfident
I can't imagine having more than half a dozen clients a week!
I'm resigned that I'll have to keep the day job!

What a shame! All that training, all those techniques and still you aren't confident enough to leave your day job?

So now you've realised that not all that glitters is gold

You've done your initial training, been on a few CPD courses, and far from the career you thought you'd have, you've still been struggling in your practice. Struggling to market yourself, struggling to get a perspective on your clients cases, struggling to manage 'too many' clients one week and not enough the next.....and you can find yourself feeling quite relieved, even though you need the money, when you've fewer clients one week than the next.

How do you think I know all this about you?

Well I was where you were right at the beginning of my practice. I went into practice one year after my initial training. You can after all! I had all those teething problems. But fortunately for me, I decided to continue training in my school of choice in integrative therapy for another 2 years. And when I came at last to present my own courses, I had already assumed that the majority of the hypnotherapy world would be where I was and all I had to share were some insights into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Wrong!!

I saw the hypnotherapy world suffering the most intensive performance anxiety, lack of training, lack of self awareness, and therapists caught up in transference and counter-transference and not even knowing what it was or that it was an issue!

I watched therapists on online forums projecting all sorts of unresolved personal issues onto fellow therapists or wanting someone to supply scripts and techniques for something they couldn't cope with.

I watched how therapists, unaware of their own issues, clubbed together to ostracise one or another contributor, shared hurried judgements about another person's intentions, and generally appeared unable to negotiate the relationships between themselves which left me wondering about the relationships they may have had with their clients.

I saw what a poor advert the world of hypnotherapists is for hypnotherapy! No wonder! The profession is full of people worried about professionalism and how best to present themselves to the public and which professional ethics should be THE definitive ethical code to follow. A self devouring world of lack of confidence and anxiety held together only by a need to identify with some higher than god ethical standards committee.

Now, you've probably guessed by now, that I didn't get where I am today by complaining about the industry. No, I decided that there was a huge need in the hypnotherapy world for indepth integrative training that would equip therapists to be able to have more confidence, more personal integrity, better outcomes, more autonomy and more clients! So let me explain how you can have that too.

So How do I become an Integrative Therapist?

Good question! You know I could explain this to you and you could still not understand the process. So let me explain first why you need this gap in your knowledge filled and what it can do for you.

Training in integrative therapy teaches you:

how to be resourceful in the therapy room
how to not be constrained only by hypnotherapy
how to know when to do a quick fix and when your client needs more
how to identify which kind of model you need to work with
how to challenge your clients when you feel stuck
how to get your client to take responsibility for their recovery process
how to not just be the dispenser of scripts and techniques
how to build rapport and a relationship with your clients that may last years
how to know when to offer practical support versus hypnotherapy support
how to go past 12 sessions and know that you are still doing a good job
how to grow and develop with your client's development
how to meet all your clients needs without having to refer on
how to become a trusted resource for your clients throughout their lives
how to maintain professional boundaries without being stuffy
how to deal with difficult clients and know how to challenge them
how to know you have done your best and the rest is up to your client
how to work with a whole range of presenting problems

Rebranding yourself an Integrative Therapist will give you the flexibility to choose whether you use hypnosis or not.

So now on to the question:

What is Integrative Therapy?

Let me give you a text book definition of Integrative Counselling: bear in mind this is just counselling, not psychotherapy & hypnotherapy

“Integrative Counselling is the ability to be flexible and to re-use elements of different approaches spontaneously and effectively depending on a counsellor's broad based knowledge of a range of theories and the ability to use them with competence. “

Sharp intake of breath!

In short integrative therapy teaches you the following

to fully integrate your knowledge and self confidence into a treatment process that is in the here and now,
to not be afraid of challenging when needed,
to be flexible enough to cater to different needs in different sessions,
to not be reliable on scripts or protocols
to share responsibility with your client: ie: to not take on their cases

If you can do that then you necessarily have to have a much more profound level of self confidence.....

And my 3 month Integrative Approach will show you how you can achieve that

I don't want to keep you in training for another year.... though I think it would be of great benefit to you. And indeed there are further opportunities to train with me. However, I know you are all busy with lots of commitments and have already done a lot of training. No. I have devised a course that will give you the opportunity to develop yourself as fast as possible and with as little disruption to your regular life as possible.

So I have packed into a 3 month programme all the essential ingredients that will get you to a level where you are achieving that illusive self confidence, where you are, as one of my recent students put it, “really getting it now” and that doesn't take you forever to do.

I have crammed into these 3 intensive days of training over 3 months all the elements that I know will help you develop that overview and insight that you need to raise your confidence and raise your client numbers. You have the benefit of my 3 years of training and my 7 years of practice all crammed into these 3 days.

Now if you're someone who is thinking that it's just too difficult, then you might as well stop reading now. I don't want people on my course who aren't here to learn something profoundly life changing. And I can guarantee it can be life changing. Life changing usually has positive connotations....rarely does life changing imply negativity. So focus on the positive, just like you tell your clients to do....

We are going to study the following major thinkers of our time

Gerard Egan – Counselling Skills
Donald Winnicott – child psychiatrist
Eric Berne – Transactional Analysis
EMDR – theory and practice

We are also going to study some of the following areas:

Transference & counter-transference
Using transference therapeutically
Managing defensiveness in the client
Drama triangle
How to deal with secondary gains
Sex & therapy
Eating disorders

And learning a whole range of advanced hypnotherapy techniques from:

Conference Room Therapy
Psycho Imaginative Therapy
Guided Affective Imagery
Among a range of others

And you will also need:

to produce 2 case studies per month
to commit to the 3 months in advance

Because, you know personal and professional development goes hand in hand in our business. You cannot have one without the other. And if you give up after the first day of the course, you haven't even given yourself the opportunity to see how much more you can develop.

So this course is not for the feint hearted. When you commit to this course, you commit to all 3 dates so check now that all 3 of those dates are possible.

They are:

24^th April 2009

29^th May 2009

26^th June 2009

And let me just reiterate this course will change your therapy practice for good! You will do away with self doubt and find a confidence you didn't realise was possible. I know because my past students have told me so.... just read below for now:

"I started training with Jenny 1 ½ years ago. She has really helped me understand myself and 'be ok' with who I am. I lead my life with confidence and on my own terms. As a result I now feel totally connected with the outside world. I also understand that other people's negative comments say more about them; they are not part of who I am or what I stand for. Jenny has helped me develop an inner strength and an increased spiritual awareness and for that I am very grateful." Samantha Redgrave Her client list has gone from just half a dozen to regularly 17 or 18 clients per week. Sam and I met in May 07 on the CFS course.

"I ...have benefitted in so many ways I never expected. I learned several useful models and how they fit with real people but more than that, I've discovered lots about myself and what I bring to the therapeutic relationship. This course and supervision from Jenny has helped to iron out many niggling issues I had with how to handle clients, and how to interpret my own feelings in relation to them. I feel much stronger now and more confident when dealing with a range of issues - my focus has sharpened on the interactions between us and the clues this gives me about how my clients operate in their own lives. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to feel more comfortable in the therapist's chair." Catherine – Hypnotherapist. Catherine & I met in March 08.

And by text after supervision last August: “ Hi Jenny. Thanks for supervision on Wednesday. I've got 14 clients this week and it feels like 5. Really 'getting it'. Has made such a difference and I feel I have lots to offer and can help my clients much more now my stuff isn't involved. Thanks!”

Because when you make this commitment to study with me, I want you to be absolutely certain about what it is you are getting. I don't want you going away thinking that you're going to get a technique based course, with a few scrappy little case studies to write, and a certificate at the end. If that's what you're thinking, then you can't have read the rest of my letter here.

You will get a certificate at the end to show the hours of CPD you have done.

You will also receive the opportunity for monthly supervision as part of the course. That means that whichever clients you are working with at the moment, I will work with you and help you change the way you do therapy so that you can get instant results.

Your case studies: I will take you by the hand and show you examples of others and tell you exactly how I want you to write them. However, you will have to go away and do the analysis. Learning how to write the case studies alone, can be all it takes to start to reflect and understand your clients issues. You will learn heaps from just thinking about your clients in a different structure and being able to reflect on your own feelings as well as your clients issues, once and for all understanding just how much you need to feel responsible for and how much is the clients' responsibility.

Now every school will tell you it has the best techniques, and the best training. Every different strand of therapy will claim that their ethical standards are the highest:

Some say DO some say DON'T

Do self disclose Don't self disclose

Do hug your client Don't hug your client

Do keep clients Don't do more than
sessions open sessions

But in my opinion, all these dictats miss just one essential point:

What does the client need?

Did anyone ever think to ask what the client needed? Did anyone ever realise that everyone is different?

The Integrative Approach with me will help you become less self obsessed with what you can offer and more interested in what the client needs.

This has got to be the most fundamental tenet of integrative therapy. What you can offer as a therapist is irrelevant. What is relevant is what the client needs. Once you've mastered all the exceptions to the do's and don'ts on my course, I'm going to show you how to avoid some of the biggest mistakes that Hypnotherapists make

#1 Big mistake

Tell your client that their treatment will last only 6 sessions

#2 Big mistake

Apologise to your client for having upset them

#3 Big mistake

Fail to ask about all aspects of client's issue

#4 Big mistake

To refer clients on when it is not necessary

#5 Big mistake

To assume yours and a clients' experience is the same

#6 Big mistake

To offer the same touchy feely or matter of fact approach to all your clients.

How avoiding these mistakes will benefit me?

If you are avoiding these mistakes then you have developed a lot of self knowledge and an expansion of your confidence and ability as a therapist.

And to be able to increase your client lists, to have the confidence to do so, to be able to earn a steady income and to gain a first class reputation you need to come and study on this course.

I have put this course together with one aim in mind:

To make you a more self assured and confident therapist

And to make that happen as quickly as possible, I have condensed all my knowledge and experience down to just 3 days over 3 months. However, so as I am not taking responsibility for all your growth, your part of the bargain is

To buy all 3 sessions of your programme in advance

To turn up to them.

To write your case studies

Without your side of this bargain, I cannot help you. If you are lacking commitment, no amount of training is going to make you a different or better therapist.

Commitment to your own professional and personal development requires courage and staying power.....do you think you have those qualities?

If you do, then you are right to come on this course. But I have a minimum requirement:

You must have at least one year's training behind you

You must already be in practice

If you don't meet those critieria then I can't guarantee you are in the right place to be studying what I have to offer and the reason for that is, you need to be able to apply the lessons you learn immediately to your existing clients.

Otherwise, what you learn will remain theory.

So now that you have met those criteria, I know you can't wait to get started on how to:

remove your own blocks to a busier practice
increase your energy by taking less responsibility for your clients stuff
work in the here and now with confidence
get rid of pre-client nerves
get rid of post-client anxiety
learn how to use the therapeutic relationship itself for your client's growth
ensure you will never be drained by your clients issues again
manage your client's recovery process efficiently
grow and change your approach as your client grows
remain centred and maintain your overview

I feel calm just reading the above.....

So your commitment takes the following shape:

For the 3 days over 3 months training
for the 3 months supervision and support
For all course materials and handouts
and for an audio copy of the course to refer to again and again

Your investment is just £727!

To make it super easy for you to access this course, you can pay in 3 equal instalments of £242: one today, then on 27th March and 26th April. I'll invoice you on those dates.

Alternatively, you may also pay in full. Choose which payment plan you would like from the below buttons.

Make your investment in instalments starting now!

Make your investment in full now!

However, I have a couple of other things I'd like to offer:

Firstly, if you get to the end of the 3 months and you seriously think you haven't learned anything new, and you wished you hadn't come, then I'll give you a full refund.

I'm serious! The reason I can offer this quite calmly is because I believe you will get more than you ever imagined was possible. That's how confident I am that it will improve your confidence. As long as you have a year's training behind you and that you are in practice.

And the other offer is, that if you have attended one of my 'Build your Confidence as a Therapist' days at end of February 09 and end of March 09, whatever you paid for that event, I'll deduct from the £727 pounds for the integrative approach.

That means that the Build your Confidence day was absolutely free! Or better, you got 4 days for the price of 3 making each day around £162. Just make your investment and on the first day of the course, I'll give you a cheque for the Introductory day you did in February or March.

So I am going to give all my secrets away and show you how to turn your practice around for such a small investment...it will pay you back for years!

In fact I feel a bit swizzed. Do you know how long it took me to learn this stuff? Do you know how much blood sweat and tears I put into developing myself and my practice? And I'm offering it you for almost nothing?

My comfort is knowing that I am filling a gap in your knowledge and having a small but pivotal part to play in your lives. So make your commitment. Recession proof your practice now and watch the benefits roll in for years to come.

Make your commitment now and prepare to revolutionise your practice!

Make your investment in instalments starting now!

Make your investment in full now!

Simply pay in 3 equal instalments of £242: one today, then on 27th March and 26th April. I'll invoice you on those dates.

Alternatively, you may also pay in full. Choose which payment plan you would like from the above buttons.

Looking forward to working with you!

Best wishes

Jenny Lynn

PS: Plan it into your diary now! Secure your place today and start your easy pay instalment plan of £242 for 3 months!

PPS: Dont forget, if you've done my Build your Confidence Course, I'll take whatever you paid for that off the Integrative Approach course fee and give you a cheque back in your hand!