How NLP Helped to Enhance an Adolescent's Academic Performance and Well-being

The challenge

The client is 17 years old and female. The client’s presented issues were low attention to academic subjects, fear of class presentation, a lower grade in academic results, and family pressure. It affects the client in her daily academic life as well as her personal life.

 

The effect

The client felt anxious to give any kind of presentation. She felt sick during her class presentation exam. Her mouth went dry, she was so shaky she didn't feel able to stand up to the present. She also had difficulties in group studies and presentation. She couldn't recall a time she had ever been able to talk to a group as the presenter.

 

Solution

This client underwent eight NLP therapy sessions to foster resourceful cognitive processes and reinforce a constructive sense of identity. Intervention happened in four stages. The first stage is listening, calibrating, and building rapport to create a safe place for the adolescent client to share her situation and issue. Second stage, reframing belief to make a connection between the logical and responsible parts of the mind. Here the client explored the positive intention of her belief and generated different positive actions to reach her desired state. Third stage, taking small steps towards positive action. The fourth stage is anchoring a desire state. In this intervention, six steps of reframing, timeline therapy, and resource anchoring have been used as therapeutic techniques for shifting.

Result

After completing the sessions, the client got in touch to let me know that her class presentation had gone well, and she decided to make some changes to her class presentation so it would be even better next time. Her shift happened in three stages. First in behaviour level, she started giving concentration, and as a result, she attended exams and presentations confidently. Second in belief level, by reframing a new belief, I love myself; that’s why I am wanted. This belief helped her to develop relationships with her parents. And the last shift happened at the identity level; with a new identity, I am capable. This identity helped her to access her resources to enhance herself. This case had two follow-up sessions along with six regular sessions and terminated successfully. The NLP models and techniques were very profound to deal with this case.