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Nancy Blake BA CQSW UKCP-Accredited Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist, has worked in mental health settings since 1971 has been a UKCP-Accredited Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist for more than ten years. She served as Chair of the ANLP PCS (now the NLPtCA), on a National Working Party developing postgraduate standards for Psychotherapy (NVQ Level 5), and contributed to the document which led to NLP being accepted as a therapeutic modality by the European Association for Psychotherapy. She is interested in the immune system and how it affects holistic and complementary approaches to health and has presented workshops at UKCP Professional Conferences on an NLP approach to working with victims of abuse, and in psychoneuroimmunology. She was the first Information/Policy Officer dealing with HIV for the Humberside County Council Social Services Department.
Recovering from ME since 1986, she is the co-author, with Dr Leslie O Simpson, of the book Ramsay’s Disease (ME) about ME, as well as A Beginner's Guide to ME / CFS (ME/CFS Beginner's Guides). Both titles are available both in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon. Nancy is currently enrolled at Lancaster University in a PhD doctoral program; her thesis topic is Conflicting Paradigms of ME/CFS and how the Psychiatric Paradigm creates its Influence in contrast to the Medical Model. She may be contacted via alternatives@alternatives.karoo.co.uk http://nancyblakealternatives.com/ Her books are available to purchase at www.amazon.co.uk/Nancy-Blake-BA-CQSW/e/B0089NS0RK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Psychotherapy
Nancy Blake is a practising psychotherapist, accredited as a Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
- Help with emotional challenges, relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression.
- Training and consultancy for organisations.
Music
Nancy also teaches piano using the learning and motivational principles of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming).
Music you like, just for fun!
Publications
Psychoneuroimmunology and NLPOur immune system responds to our emotional state; NLP is a powerful tool to keep it strong.
Nancy's Introduction to the Site
You may be visiting this site because you are looking for a psychotherapist or a piano teacher, or have heard about NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and would like to learn more, or are just looking for alternatives!
Alternatives is the word I chose for what I offer because NLP offers alternatives to traditional forms of therapy, and because the outcome we envisage is that you have more alternatives in your own life.
John Grinder and Richard Bandler are the men who first set out the principles of NLP. It began with studying the work of various experts - watching what they did, rather than listening to what they said about what they thought they did - a noticing patterns which seemed to be producing the results they got. This process is called modelling, and it has been used to understand the basics of sports performance, musical performance, successful business practices, management, teaching, and for our purposes, how to help people change their behaviour, if that's what they want to do.
The practice of neurolinguistic psychotherapy is based on NLP. Bandler and Grinder were very interested in the work of the most successful therapists of their time - the early work was done in the 1970's. They modelled Virginia Satir, who specialised in family therapy, Fritz Perls, who used Gestalt therapy, and Dr. Milton Erickson, who was a leading medical hypnotist.
If you would like to find out more about NLP, please go to Basics of NLP. If you would like to find out about my own approach to psychotherapy, go to How I Like to Work. If you are interested in how I use NLP in teaching piano, go to NLP and The Piano. If you are interested in finding out about me, go to Me. You can also look at My Poems and Songs, My Politics, My Bad Attitudes and My Thoughts about This and That, also My Favourite Jokes. There is also My Dog, Muttley.