For whatever reason, when I first learned NLP I wound up seeing a lot of clients who had 'panic attacks'. The structure of a panic attack is an interesting thing. In nearly every case I came across, there was a defining incident - a time where things had been truly painful on the inside. It might have been a time of being out of control or when the person felt as though something was happening to their body and they had no control over it.

 "All of us have good and bad experiences; how we think about them is often what makes the difference between them."

-Richard Bandler

When I first began studying NLP, in the late '80's, it was generally taught as an eclectic set of therapeutic techniques. Despite the fact that I was simultaneously training to be an actor, it somehow made sense to me to become an NLP therapist as a way of putting what I was learning into practice. After eighteen months of foundering, it dawned on me that I really didn't want to be a therapist, but I still wanted to use what I had learned, particularly with friends and family.