Therapeutic models
The Freudian model and the forms of psychodynamic therapy and psychotherapy that followed represent great advances in thought, and shaped the discipline of therapy. However, as tools of transformation, they are comparatively slow and cumbersome.
Contemporary therapies
Since the 1960s, great advances have been made in therapy and what is now called coaching. The most effective of these contemporary models are Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and other energy therapies, Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Kinesiology.
Although these therapies have different techniques and applications, they have a few things in common:
- They are goal-focused
- They work extremely quickly and are highly effective
- They work directly with the unconscious body
- The results are permanent
Sometimes it's suggested that, by combining a number of different therapeutic methods, it's not possible to be a master of them. Actually, the opposite is the case. An understanding of EMDR and NLP makes an EFT practitioner far more effective, for example. The different therapies enrich each other, so that in combination a therapy emerges that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Through Temporal Modelling, a method created by Jonathan Livingstone (and featured in Natural Health & Beauty magazine, December 2005), the sources of the problem are identified. By resolving a problem at its source the application of contemporary therapeutic and coaching models become even more effective.
Jonathan combines these contemporary methods with inner-child work inspired by John Bradshaw, and hypnotherapy based on the work of Dave Elman and Milton Erickson.
The result is unique dynamic individual treatments which permanently and usually very quickly resolve the sources of the problems presented.