Cameron Bradley

NLP sessions with Cameron Bradley

I had three sessions with Cameron Bradley. During each session, tangible progress was made. Time was not an issue, he patiently listened to me trying to find the words to carve out my problem. With his calm and focused approach, he knowledgably steered our session towards the core of my issue, helping me to consider it from different vantage points and to ultimately eliminate the problem. This is no small feat considering it has been troubling me for decades and sessions with other counsellors always fell short. The last session was 5 months ago and the issue has not returned to plague me. Even today, in moments of weakness, I am able to draw on the insights gained in the sessions with Cameron, as he helped me to understand and isolate the negativity driving my issue. I can only recommend him.

Excellent session

My first session with Cameron was a real eye-opener. I'm an artist, entrepreneur, and someone who has recently embarked on an e-commerce journey. I had come to the conclusion the only way I could possible get through the huge workload I had put upon myself was to only focus on the many tasks at hand. The consequences of which meant drifting away from friends and the normal life, as I never had enough time to fit them into my schedule. In doing so I had slid into an insular and depressing cycle of work to achieve the end game, which I now know was a contributor to my physical and mental fatigue.

Through Cameron's structured analytics we managed to compartmentalize certain behaviors, which only came to light during the session. This young man sorted me out. Sometimes you need a reminder to head towards the light in the tunnel up ahead. Highly recommended.

Bing Hitchcock

Relationship Issues

Cameron helped me unblock some personal relationship issues that I was dealing with . They were related to some childhood situations and using a combination of NLP , clinical hypnosis and time based techniques he enabled me to view things from a totally different perspective . This has had a huge effect on my connection with other people going forward .
Cameron created an environment where I felt safe emotionally .
I would highly recommend Cameron

Excellent Migraine Removal

Cameron helped me with a persisting headache which was accompanied by nausea and light sensitivity. It had been bothering me for a couple of days, with no medication touching it.
Although a little sceptical if I'm honest, I hoped the NLP session would help but was not putting any pressure on it to do so, I was exhausted and fed up.
I welcomed the visual work and the way it was facilitated by Cameron as I was feeling wretched after days of pain at this point. I was so surprised at how easy it was and how quickly the pain started to shift around having felt so solid for days. Cameron helped me harness it and take control and it lessened quickly. I couldn't believe it was gone so soon after the work.
I recommend him highly.

90-day reprogramming

Cameron offered me his support via NLP during a 90-day reprogramming phase. With his very calm and reasoned approach, he was able, using NLP, to resolve an old and very complex family issue that has been a burden on our entire family for a long time. After this issue was resolved, I actually felt the weight taken off my shoulders, it has started/changed many other things in my life positively. Moreover, Cameron was able to resolve during a session a fear/phobia which has been haunting me since my youth by taking me back to my childhood and having me look at the root of the problem. Recently I was again confronted with precisely this fear/phobia, and it was gone. I was able to deal with the situation in which the phobia was usually triggered in an absolutely stress-free manner. Working with Cameron has helped me a great deal. I am looking forward to taking the next steps.

Cameron is a worldly cosmopolitan with an immense wealth of experience. His Australian laid-back attitude combined with his ability to correctly assess complex issues makes him a valuable and competent NLP advisor.

Session to Remove Phobia

I had a linked phobia to injections and illnesses causing me to have blackouts, with me getting my invitation to have my Covid injection I decided I finally need to do something about it. I had a look on the website and found Cameron. We had a very positive conversation and Cameron was able to put me at ease and was very understanding. We arranged our session to do the removal. During the session there was a lot of "cleaning" to do, at no time did I feel rushed and was relaxed throughout it. We even had time to chat about NLP. So I came out thinking has this worked, a couple of weeks later I went for my Covid jab, I was very nervous beforehand, however the best way to describe it was no drama, no nothing it was just normal. Cameron also rang me post the jab to see how it went. I would thoroughly recommend Cameron and would be happy to work with him again

Highly recommended!

I highly recommend Cameron as an NLP Practitioner. I have had two sessions with Cameron. On the first session, I was able to clear a pattern of behaviour I’d had my entire life; created from an early childhood experience. The session enabled me to go through memories of this pattern; clearing each one, until I no longer had anything to go back to. Metaphorically speaking, Cameron asked me to bin it at the end and give thanks; as the experience had served me. The second session concerned a feeling I had got used to having, as above we worked through it until no more memory remained; releasing this feeling that no longer served me. Cameron is very calm and passionate. He allowed me to take as much time as I needed. He has a very positive attitude and is well equipped in NLP and I felt at ease during the sessions with Cameron.

Unblocked some stuck trauma

Cameron really helped me unblock some trapped trauma that I'd be holding onto for a long time. He created the time, the space and the expertise to guide me through this process. I cant thank him enough. Would highly recommend, thanks Cameron....

Amazing Session!

Cameron and I worked on a specific area of my life that I was struggling with. We only had the 1 session together, and in the session Cameron went through with me what was important to me regarding this area of my life. Cameron then had me go under hypnosis and cleared up a number of memories for me which has allowed me to see these memories in a new light. I am now flying in this area and I cannot thank Cameron enough for our time together!! Highly recommend, Cameron is a class, intuitive practitioner and I definitely recommend his services. Thank you Cameron!

The insights were mindblowing

Cameron helped me see how a rather small and unpleasant event in my life was actually not so small at all and even positive for me. He helped me get a different perspective on it and I could suddenly see so many teachings in this one incident and how it helped me become the person I am today. It strengthened the belief in my own morals and values which I was questioning big times before the session.
He made me feel at ease instantly and the learnings are invaluable. Highly recommend.

This might be the only book you need.

Reviewing: Counselling Adolescents

Counselling Adolescents is a comprehensive and assiduously organised book.

Divided into four parts, the first two provide introductory and foundational grounding on the subject matter for the remaining parts to then focus on the ‘proactive’ approaches thereon out. Reading is supported in this text with many figures, highlighted key points, several tables, a chapter on counselling micro-skills and suggested further readings that all help to activate the easy understanding of the processes and strategies of proactive counselling with young people. Three notable chapters lay-out symbolic, creative and psycho-educational strategies with a thorough methodology. I found the sections on metaphor insightful as well as the use of symbols for potentially accessing ‘material from the unconscious,’ with the compact case studies at the end of these chapters providing further consolidation. The book concludes with two fully scripted case studies split into two columns, one of the session text and the other being the skills and strategies used by the counsellor so the reader can examine their application in the field in a real in-time context.

With this book the three co-authors have streamlined their combined decades of experience using completely disentangled language to fashion a tome of maximum use-vale for this field and it shines with excellence. It is also excellent value for money. So much so it is fair to say that this book will get continual use by anyone starting out in counselling with young people and revisited throughout ones career for its speedy reference functionality and accessibility of content. Such user friendliness makes it the ideal purchase for students as the book not only provides online resources for students but also downloadable PDFs that support a twelve session counselling training programme for lecturers also.

Music Therapy Is Straightforwardly Indispensible

Reviewing: The Music in Music Therapy

To put it plainly: this book is complex. Indeed, one imagines that it would prove a challenging read for musical experts. Complexity aside: this cutting-edge book is truly indispensable.

Music as a form of therapy is something most of us have experienced to varying levels throughout life. Music is, for instance, of viewed as a means of escape – when we are lost in or caught up in music, we get a sense of ourselves through music coming from outside ourselves that is also felt internally. In a nutshell, this place or sense, according to music therapists, is the “bio-grammar” (where experience is felt and thinking begins), and furthermore the “form giving” exchange between therapist and patient occurring through listening to music or via musical improvisation is “psychodynamic” in nature.

This is where things start to get a little complicated. In musical psychotherapeutic practice, this place is identified by a kind of “rhythmic pulsing”, and this pulsing is described as a proto-structure having a relational matrix with a flexible and fluctuating organic movement (analogous to a heartbeat), which creates an anticipatory space for something – for something not yet there. And it is here, where this pulsing invites the psychotic or autistic patient to join in (who has no internal metre, no pulsing), because this space at which thinking can emerge is also the edge of, and basis for, symbolising; which has now been given space to potentially exist for the patient. Very straightforward.

This book has fourteen varied and fascinating clinical/research perspectives from across Europe to give this field serious multifaceted depth and is essential equipment for those interested in this field.

A No Brainer Buy

Reviewing: The User's Manual for the Brain Vol 1: Complete Manual for Neuro-linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification

The User’s Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual For Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification by Bob G. Bodenhamer, D.Min. and L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. has a thorough lay-out and is written in a useful and focused style. This allows for the wealth of information within to percolate clearly into the mind of the reader; it is also a testament to the wealth of experience distilled by the authors into this reference book.

The content contained in this user’s manual is cutting-edge, with diagrams and illustrations that strengthen the book’s systematics – frequent quotes from major figures in NLP and other fields support the observations contained within, as do useful summaries of key points and glosses on terminology.

By way of illustration, Chapter 8, on the Meta-model, is particularly impressive: I am certain that I would have saved significant time if I had had access it when I started-out. The chapters focusing on “Submodalities and Anchoring Management Neurology” are similarly useful. Indeed, they provide readers with a fresh conceptual vantage point on tried and tested topics..

After completing this book, one will be happy to hold onto it for the rest of one’s career. The sheer comprehensiveness on display is impressive: this alone would surely warrant its inclusion on one’s bookshelf. Further to that, the fresh and clear transmission of knowledge the tome imparts ensures that the work, which has been designed as a beginner’s manual, ensures that it will be of great benefit for those striving to become certified practitioners; those readers who aspire to become a Trainer of NLP will also find that the book is an excellent teaching reference text as well. Furthermore, chapters like “Satir Categories” and “Advanced Modelling” will appeal to not only beginners but refresher seasoned practitioners also.

30 Years in 13 Hours

Reviewing: The Wisdom of Milton H Erickson

The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson is a gift to therapists. Ronald A. Havens’ has distilled the thought of Erickson from over 140 publications into titles and subtitles that grant practitioner’s direct and specific access to Erickson’s writing and, like a sorting machine, can take the reader to almost whatever topic they may require—or at least within close proximity to it. This is the closest and certainly most affordable way for a professional to have the next best thing to the man himself as a guide. Those new to Erickson’s academic writing and/or the profession will want to have this book on their shelf, and seasoned practitioners will also enjoy the layout of this book, for its speedy reference value alone.
The book is divided into three sections. These sections are comprised of thirteen chapters –these chapters encompass over 130 subheadings. The book is, in a word, comprehensive. One of Erickson’s great achievements was his ability to present complex ideas in plain and pleasant language. And this is why this book is so important: it affords readers the opportunity to get to grips with, to borrow from Havens’ title, Erickson’s wisdom. Under the subheading Patients Can and Must Do the Therapy, Erickson remarks that “In a learning situation you have to do your own learning. I want you to learn a lot faster than I did, it took me about 30 years to learn, and there is no sense in that” (p107). This book will undoubtedly help with his wish and indeed with one’s own learning

A Categorical Resource for Hypnosis with Children

Reviewing: Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents – Second Edition

Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents (Crown House Publishing) has a wide enough scope to give the reader referable resources for years to come. If one were to work with children and/or adolescents this comprehensive co-edited collection, would undoubtedly show the condition of recurrent use compared to others on the shelf: this book provides basic forecasts for to prepare those starting out with the diversity of “psychological application” (which the second section of the book generously accords). Hypnosis applied to habit and behavioural disorders, depression, childhood trauma and anxiety in children are examined and examples and clinical vignettes are fully provided for—this section alone justifies the books price-tag. The introductory first part of the book is thorough and includes induction and intensification techniques. The third part of the book explores the medical implications for professionals operating in acute medical and clinical settings. Part three enters a higher level of specificity and diagnostic focus that may, at first glance, appear to preclude the non-clinician unacquainted to the emergency department or hospital bedside. But this is not the case. Indeed, there is much to be learned from these chapters. It can be argued that a non-medical hypnotherapist working with children and adolescents will likely in their career come across something that intersects with perioperative needs, recurring pain, chronic disease, elimination disorders and even palliative care. This book would prove invaluable, should such a situation arise.

The Book that Compounds Value your Whole Career in Hypnosis and NLP.

Reviewing: Ericksonian Approaches - Second Edition

First of all, hats off to Crown House Publishing for printing this book—Ericksonian Approaches: A comprehensive Manual Second Edition by Rubin Battino, MS and Thomas L. South, PHD is a magisterial work. Indeed, one is hard-pressed to find anything of equivalent value. One can even argue that it contains everything that a beginner would need. Assuredly, whatever a hypnosis/NLP Practitioner chooses to put into this book will be rewarded in spades.
The book is organised into twenty-three chapters which are in turn methodically broken down into smaller parts. It opens with the history of hypnosis before moving onto to chapters on basic and advanced metaphor, as well as other chapters on hypnotherapy with special populations, substance abuse and ethical and legal concerns. One especially fascinating chapter, which concerns the psychobiology of gene expression and mind body, warrants special mention. Significantly, this book does not require reading from cover to cover (somewhat exhaustive at 600 pages)—the chapters are self-contained. Furthermore, the logical way the chapters are structured allows for easy consumption, while at the same time the authors champion the reader to take time out from whatever page they are on to go and practice the stuff, with suggested guidelines, like a professional training course would; again I stress, what the reader chooses to put it will pay out in kind.
Another part of this books excellence is the conscientious writing style which unceasingly converts anything seemingly complicated into clear comprehension. This book has been, simply put, designed to help as much as it possibly can. This crowning achievement is best thought of as the life’s work of not one, but two: that is, two lives in continual dialogue, inspiring each other at each and every turn, and succeeding in their shared goal.

Agent of Change Hits the Mark (most of the time).

Reviewing: Experiencing Reality

Cathey’s introduction to Experiencing Reality states that the purpose of his book is not to provide a technical manual but rather a series of stories for the reader to freely interpret for themselves. All stories begin with a quote, and most end with a paragraph (or sentence) how the experience relates to Cathey’s varying approaches to work as an agent of change.

I found most of the stories provoking thought in a pleasantly straightforward way and but a few falling short due to insufficient content which, in these moments, pressed the narrative into producing a somewhat moralising tone. These stories came across in need of further polishing to not be described as simply stating bog-standard common sense. But on the whole, Cathey’s earnest and uncomplicated writing embodies his competence as an agent of change for young people and the reader will get the most out of these stories if they are interested in working in similar areas. It is through the more spontaneous situations in his stories that Cathey actually goes into some basic level of practical technique (despite his earlier saying otherwise) and this is where he is obviously at his best—and the book at its most applicable. "Working Within People’s Capabilities" was a stand-out story for me in this regard as was "Stacking Firewood".

This book could be considered as a useful primer for people starting out in the field of change work and a handy reference tome for the years to follow.