1. Organizational abilities and efficiency
2. Ability to focus and concentrate
3. Balanced personal life

Introduction

My initial contact with my client was to assist him as a Life Coach. My client felt he needed assistance organizing his existing business and new start up company.

History/Background

My client has been in the financial services sector for over 20 years and business/career is successful. However there is always room for enhancement and my client feels he has more to accomplish. My client recently started a new company however with only two staff members they were beginning to find the daily tasks around the office overwhelming. They urgently need additional staff and a great deal of organization.

While my client has a brilliant business mind, he also developed a very unorthodox method of hiring staff. It was apparent the method or lack there of, needed an overhaul as my client estimated he lost approximately $300,000.00 in wages, training and time within the past two years with staff that were not a good fit for the business.

With new HR policies in place and new hiring practices, my client still seemed overwhelmed with the daily occurrences at the office. My client’s main objective is to manage two offices and to continue with his passion of working one on one with his clients. It appeared my client had a great deal of difficulty delegating duties to his staff and letting go of the more routine duties.

My client would also unsuccessfully juggle the responsibilities of his family, which consisted of his spouse and four children. My client had difficulty relaxing and difficulty separating duties of the business when he arrived home. He estimated getting; at the most 5 hours sleep daily. His ultimate go is to achieve a more balanced lifestyle than his current practice.

Goals of Client:

Using the Meta Model my client expressed the following:

• To achieve total relaxation
• To improve his organizational and concentration abilities
• To become more efficient and to achieve better focus on the task at hand
• To delegate appropriately and trustfully

My client stated he would be a much more productive leader and mentor for his staff and clients. The client expressed the need to have a balance between business and family and to know when to turn off the business when he leaves the office and concentrate more on his family when he is with his family.

My client feels he will know he has achieved balance at home when he is able to turn off his cell phone once he parks his car and enters his home. He goes on the state he knows he will achieve balance at work when he is able to have a full hour of lunch 4 plus days per week and not feel rushed.

My client feels these changes will improve both his business and personal relationships considerably. My client expresses the reason he has not achieved any of the above is due to time and not knowing how to implement the administrative functions to his business.

Therapist Goals:

• first session to introduce my client to hypnotherapy utilizing stress reduction and relaxation techniques
• second session to strengthen the suggestions of the first session to include NLP

Treatment: Session 1

The induction used was the Progressive Relaxation. Understanding this is my client’s first experience with hypnotherapy, I felt it was important to use this induction to allow him to participate fully in the induction. It was also important to get my client to feel as relaxed as possible as relaxation was something he longed to achieve. Once I was happy that my client achieved hypnotic state, I then proceeded to use the New Behaviour Generator NLP model. Once complete, I used additional suggestions to reinforce the agreements made during our session.

Once complete and client was present in the room and out of hypnosis, I completed the session with client feedback. My client disclosed the individual he wanted to model, the nuances he noticed and colours, vibrations, etc. My intention was to use the information given in subsequent sessions.

Treatment: Session 2

In our second session, I used progressive relaxation induction once again as the client stated it really helped him to relax easily. I repeated New Behaviour Generator as in our previous session; and strengthened the suggestion using the cues and the nuances my client described in our feedback session of session one. Self hypnosis techniques were also a part of session 2.

Post Treatment

My client is happy with his progress since our first two sessions. My client is satisfied that his work thus far has helped him to rid most of the anxiety he felt with both his personal and business life. My client states he is able to sleep a lot better and longer during the nights. He is able to unwind with his family for a substantial amount of hours prior to going to bed and he has turned his cell phone off once he enters the door without feeling he needs to have it beside him even after business hours. My client expresses further happiness to be able to take lunch, schedule weekly meetings with his staff. My client still struggles with letting go of some of the more routine tasks that can be and should be handled by his administrators. With future sessions, my client will be well on his way to living a balance lifestyle.

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