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Introduction

Fairly often people object to having newly�minted NLP Practitioners doing therapy (even if they call it �counseling,� or �personal change,� or something else). Typically there are two kinds of concern:

1. �How well can someone be helped?� and
2. �What is the danger that someone might be harmed?� by an inappropriate method, or by the therapist�s lack of skill in applying an appropriate method, etc.

Although these two concerns are not completely independent, let�s first address the effectiveness concern, �How well can someone be helped?�