Cameron Bradley

NLP Cleansing

I'd been having issues with various parts of my life e.g. finding myself getting angry for no real reason, lack of confidence among others. I discussed this with a friend who advised I try NLP specifically with Cameron.

I thought about it and decided to go for it. Setting this up was an easy process compared to other services I've used. We managed to find a time to suit us both very easily without too much back and forth or disconnect.

At thestart of the meeting I had a chance to speak with Cameron who came across as a really nice guy who wants to help and I felt that we struck up a report fairly quickly.

Cameron explained the next steps and how the meeting would go and we started the journey. At first I didn't quite understand what was expected of me but with some further instruction and examples from Cameron I got the point and then we flew off to a great start.

Throughout the meeting I could feel the weight lifting off me as we discussed my issues and got to their root cause. As a side note, I didn't always have to explain the specifics to Cameron which was a bit of a relief as I felt some of the memorries were quite personal to me which made me awkward/fearful to talk about them. Knowing this made me dive into this a little bit more which helped.

By the end of the meeting I felt like I was in a happier place with tools that would allow me to tackle issues in future.

Thanks to Cameron for his professional, helpful and understanding approach.

NLP for physical and mental health

I was curious about NLP and decided to try a session with Cameron, focusing on both physical and mental health issues.

Cameron was a patient and attentive guide, leading me to explore memories and reflect learnings between my past, present and imagined future selves. I was surprised to discover connections and patterns that I had not previously been aware of through thinking about my life experiences holistically in this way.

My session with Cameron was “content free”, which meant that Cameron was simply guiding me through my internal processes and did not need me to speak out loud about my experiences. I found this a surprisingly comfortable and effective way to revisit some quite traumatic memories, as it did not require me to unpack those for anyone but myself, while still being supported throughout the process.

Overall, I am very pleased with the experience of my NLP session with Cameron. He quickly made me feel relaxed and at ease, and provided guidance that was both unintrusive yet firm throughout the process. As well as feeling a new lightness when thinking about some times in my past, I feel that I have come away with new tools and an improved relationship with myself, which I can rely on going forwards.

Three Sessions with Cameron Bradley

I finished my NLP session with Cameron a couple of months ago and it has actually been the most consistently effective therapy I’ve experienced. I’ve been struggling with an alcohol problem due to intense bereavement over a very short period of time. Then later encountering terrifying situations that led to head injury and PTSD. The drinking worsened leading to disruptions with my art due to constant procrastination.
Cameron led me to events in the past in a subtle gentle way that enabled me to piece things together and see a common thread through them all. However it was not just in a logical way but in a far wider all-encompassing way.
He gave me a whole leaving no stone left unturned particularly realising that previous to trauma, my much younger self of whom I confronted had a wider vision than the present me. This all might seem elementary, yet before these sessions I was always subconsciously avoiding this. So from a perspective I’d never had before things started to take shape.
Cameron creates a very balanced energy/environment, an equilibrium that which re-ensures a solid sense of self and safety throughout.
This therapy is mesmerizingly powerful stuff, and since then my life has continued to evolve towards the betterment of myself. I have a solid platform now from which to work from and surprisingly my alcohol cravings have ceased. Many thanks Cameron.

S Croll

I visited Cameron for a number of reasons some past bad experiences with a relationship.. What he did was very good, I think he called it a positional something or other to look at how to feel better about events and move on from them which I must say I do
I have greater clarity and feel better about those events now .
We also looked at my public speaking anxiety for a couple of sessions , which I feel has given me greater confidence in leadership roles where I have to speak in large groups .
Cameron Hope to see you again

Eyes Opened

When a rough bout of lower back pain morphed into reoccurring sciatica - irritated nerve - and I was informed that only rest, a hot water bottle and painkillers would ease the agony but not cure it completely, I took a punt on NLP.

Cameron Bradley came recommended and I'm glad I shunted aside my scepticism to give this particular practice, and Cameron, a chance. One session was all it took for him to calmly lighten the burden I'd been carrying around with me like a hanging weight for weeks. I went in 100% staunchly believing that physical pain could in no way be offset by talking it through but I left feeling significantly lightened, a load lifted, than when I arrived, and this allowed me to have the first good night's rest in a long while, which in turn helped speed up my recovery no end.

Clearly, then, all you must do is ignore the naysayers, go with an open mind, let a certified and experienced someone like Cameron guide you through the visualisation exercises, and an interesting chat later, with the root cause of whatever afflicts you identified, you'll be surprised by the results, as I was.

If NLP can shave off the harsh edge of external pain I can only imagine what it must do for anyone with internal pain, and Cameron proved to be a superb practitioner of this, for me, very mysterious and intriguing psychological technique.

A very positive experience. Highly recommended.

NLP for acrophobia

I have struggled with a phobia of heights since as long as I can remember.

I felt very comfortable and able to explore my difficulty with Cameron and found the experience very enlightening. Cameron was warm, empathic and skilled at helping me get to the root of what was driving this irrational fear. Once this had been identified and worked through during our session I was then able to confront the phobia with a new insight. I learned that it wasn’t actually the heights that I was fearful of.

Several days after meeting with Cameron, I visited the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth with my family in order to test my fear. It was a strange feeling. I anticipated physical symptoms of anxiety and a temptation to avoid, however these did not materialise. I proudly strode along the outer edges of the viewing platform and across the glass-bottomed floor making sure to challenge myself by sitting down on and looking straight down to the floor 100 meters below! This is something I previously would not have envisioned myself being able to do and with the renewed confidence I gained from this experience I look forward to the next opportunity to challenge myself.

Thanks Cameron!

3 sessions with Cameron

Following on from a friend's recommendation, I consulted Cameron regarding an ongoing lack of enthusiasm and generally resigned, lacklustre feeling that I have been experiencing these past 5 or so years.
I didn't approach him with any specific or particular problem or issue as such (that I was aware of) but just a very general non specific malaise that had become energy draining and actually quite boring, and that I realised I had no idea how to address.
I say all this despite having my own personal practice that keeps me ticking over and on top of things, yet beneath all this lurked an ongoing sense of melancholia and a 'why bother?' kind of feeling.
Almost everything I had planned or enacted these past few years has either failed, unravelled and/or left me in unexpected and unforeseen places, and I had begun to wonder if somehow I wasn't actually sabotaging myself unwittingly and that my progressively developing procrastination was one of the symptoms of this general feeling being and I was employing it as a way of avoiding any further disappointment.
As our sessions progressed, Cameron led me (somehow at my own instigation) back to places and situations in my past that I hadn't considered for some time and as the feelings around these surfaced, we addressed them one by one, prompted by Cameron's always apposite questions, eventually reconnecting me with a former much younger self that was full of simple advice and suggestions to address this present general condition, with a much clearer and more positive attitude.
All of this was made possible by Cameron's attentive guidance, personable and confidential manner, and good humour, that all the while felt like I was merely chatting deeply with an old friend, but on reflection I realise now that I was being nudged along all the while to locate for myself any possible source/s of this general ennui and to re/discover tools and tactics to help me address even resolve underlying issues that I was only dimly aware of. All the while with an increasing awareness of my conscious/unconscious thoughts and actions and the potential conflict or standstill that can occur between them.
The effects of our sessions continue to this day, several weeks later, and have given me a firmer, much more concrete ground or place to go to whenever I catch myself slipping into the feelings I have attempted to describe above.
Thankyou Cameron.
It feels like we have together switched the lights on in a room that I had previously been alone in, groping around in the dark and not even knowing what I was looking for!
I shall be recommending you highly to anyone that I feel would benefit from a session or two with you...
Thanks again.
Pete Morris

Review of session with Cameron Bradley

I left Cameron’s session today feeling energised and positive. I have the distinct feeling that experiences I have carried for many many years are just no longer going to hold sway over me. When a memory arises that is perhaps troubling, I have the means simply to ‘go there’ and give my former self support. In this way, I have become my own best friend and protector.
During the session, Cameron immediately put me at ease with his pragmatic and friendly manner. He is attentive, generous and funny, but never intrusive. In fact, it is possible to have the whole session without divulging anything particularly personal. That being said, talking with Cameron is not difficult. What grew during our session was a shared enthusiasm to get the job done. Hence, it felt purposeful, focused and even exciting. It is work of a kind and of course there were painful moments – who hasn’t got memories that sting – but the sense that these were in the process of being neutralised was thrilling.
I thoroughly recommend Cameron as an NLP practitioner because he is deeply self-aware, unpretentious and yet very skilled at the task at hand. I am no expert on NLP and there is an element of mystery about how the process works, but you know it when it has. For this reason, I am very grateful for Cameron’s help and believe you will be too.

Cameron Bailey

I recommend Cameron highly , if it can be articulated in language in can be positively changed or removed .

Exceptional

A highly beneficial experience conducted in a professional yet comforting manor.
Cameron has exceptional and insightful skills and has successfully enabled me to deal with issues head on that have plagued me for years.
I highly recommend his services and will indeed be calling upon his expertise again in the near future.

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.