Testimonials

Following are a series of testimonial videos showing how Vivachi has helped with

Heartfelt Thanks

I deeply appreciate those that considered doing a video, those that want to, and those that have taken time to come and do this.

These clients all decided that it's important to let other people know about the work we do and and the impact this has had on their lives. Thank you so much.

I got a client email recently referring a child through for depression and we'd been referred to as "miracle workers that could help!" The reality is we're not miracle workers. We use structured techniques and systems derived mostly from Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) that allow us to understand clients neuro linguistic strategies. Utilising this we often help them make surprising changes in their lives. Clients come to understand themselves and what they had been doing better.

Children Video Testimonials

While 60% of our work is with children you'll notice a lack of video testimonials around this exciting work. We've decided to not post the current video's with children in them. Our future video's will probably be parent interviews.

We'd love to have more parents find out about the work we're doing and how well Vivachi has worked for their children.

Depression

When clients see us after having depression on and off for decades, they are often asking us to help them manage their depression. They have a belief that it's something that can't be stopped. In my experience working with clients that hasn't been the case. I'm often teaching them how depression works and how they've been doing it, then teaching them how to not do it. They'll often comment this is the first time they've learned this. They have a new found confidence and belief in themselves once they know how to not do depression. Here's what this lady has to say about our work with changing depression.

Phobias (ask about our guarantee: no result and the session is free)

Many clients see us initially for one personal challenge and then as a result of that experience, have us work with other things that had been a problem for them. This client had originally approached us about a speech language problem before doing this and other work. My expectation is that in most cases a clients phobic response would be changed after two sessions to a response that clients are satisfied with. Because of our high success rate with phobias we provide a guaranteed results phobia package. When you see us for a phobia we'll discuss this package with you. Taking this option means you "only pay for a successful result".

Height Phobia

Spider Phobia

From Trauma and Fear to Confidence

NLP has shown in trials to be one of the most effective and fastest therapies for changing trauma. The Trauma Process usually has clients overcoming their trauma in 2 - 4 sessions. Because this is such a core change people often report a physiological change that other people around them notice. In the video below we're working with trauma from the distant past. Often when trauma occurs in early life our core emotions develop in a way they wouldn't have normally. In addition to working with the traumatic events we're also working with the core emotions.

Speech / Language

Using NLP, lisps are often changed in a single session. We also work with general speech delays and challenges predominantly with children. This young lady had a strong lisp when she came to see us.

Trauma

You'll see a number of videos here for this client and initially she came to see us because life was challenging. Underlying all of the problems at the time she saw us was a traumatic event from earlier in life. NLP provides one of the most effective therapies for having clients overcome serious traumatic events, or PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in relatively short periods of time.

These skills have been particularly useful in use after large scale human disasters such as 9/11, armed conflict or natural disasters. One of our practitioners Des Shinnick was part of the volunteer NLP Trauma Team providing training in Samoa after the Tsunami. NLP Master Practitioners and Trainers from New Zealand have undertaken that work previously in Chechnya and Bosnia.

With this client, we were able to change her feeling of being overwhelmed by the traumatic event that occurred decades earlier. Once this was done we then worked with her depression, anxiety and claustrophobia.

Allergies - (Cat Allergy)

With NLP we have a highly successful process for having clients overcome allergies in usually 1 to 2 sessions. This client had just worked with us on her lisp with great results. We then worked with her on other personal challenges such as her cat allergy.

Anxiety and Claustrophobia

Originally this client came to see us as a result of depression and anxiety. Depression can often be triggered by and cause other personal challenges. We also worked with this client on Claustrophobia and Trauma.

Phobias - NLP has a well tested process for overcoming phobias. Clients often experience success within two sessions. In this case we dealt with the Claustrophobia.

Anxiety - Our work with Anxiety is similar to our work with Depression where clients are often wanting us to help them manage it. We teach them how anxiety works, and how they get into that state of being anxious. Then we teach them how to not do anxiety. It's often a surprise for them being able to notice they are no longer feeling anxious about something that had been a problem for them.

Asthma

We're working with clients and after 2 to 3 sessions they often report an increase in peak flow of 100 to 120 in an adult. They'll talk of going from being out of breath walking upstairs to taking walks on the beach. They'll often comment that they can't remember the last time their lung capacity (peak flow) was as strong. Our work here is based on work done in Denmark in the early 1990s by a Medical Doctor in conjunction with a NLP Master Practitioner there. If you would like to know more about that work we have further written information available.

This is the 4th time that we got to work with this client. She has suffered from severe asthma all of her life, spending a lot of time in hospitals as a result. Her peak flow was 100 - 150 when she had asthma events and as high as 200 - 250. After working with her for two sessions she reported an increase in peak flow to 300 - 350, and a dramatic reduction in inhaler use. We then took her on as a research client and with some new techniques we developed she was able to lift her peak flow to consistently above 400. A remarkable result.

We are now in the research phase of adapting this work to use with children.

Professional Supervision / Training

We provide professional supervision to all modalities of therapy. We currently work with Counsellors, Mental Health Workers, Social Workers, Massage Therapists, General Practitioners, Drug & Alcohol Counsellors and NLP Practitioners. Many of the health professionals we work with are unable to have our supervision count toward there supervision requirements. They continue to use us because we provide value for them.

We support health professionals with the core skills that health professionals need to work with clients that we support. Often we face personal challenges that in many instances are unique to our work.

Grief

During our lifetimes we get moments where we experience grief in one of many forms. Clients call us or are referred through when this becomes "too big" or "has gone on for too long."

We use specific processes for changing their connection to grief in a gentle way, leaving clients feeling resourceful and in control of their lives. This is not about having them discuss the event at length more having them make the changes at a deeper level that would normally occur over time. Clients often comment it was quick, easy and they feel they have distance on it now and can retain the memories and move forward with their lives.

Couples Counselling (including Sex & Intimacy)

Relationships and the problems that go with them can be challenging. Our clients have been impressed with the model of therapy we use that includes seeing couples together at first and then individually. We retain confidentiality for each person. This allows us to more clearly identify what the challenges are and what each as well as the couple are seeking longer term. Integrating this with out therapeutic work, we help couples work toward where they want to go in a way that is supportive. The key is helping them develop new skills, understandings and strategies for life. We have no predetermined goal and follow where couples take us. Our sessions recognize and support client beliefs and values.

Mental Health - a Professional view of our services

We work with long term mental health patients through a Mental Health Advocacy Service. These patients have challenges that go beyond the typical personal challenges to include long term conditioning in a manner that makes it a challenge for them to live life outside of a care facility. We'd love to see programmes that support the development of skills to help these people transition back into life in a positive manner.

Overcoming Anger and Rage

There are many anger management programmes that focus on dealing with anger at a conscious level. When someone appears to instantly go into anger or rage that's a much deeper strategy that we've found to be more effectively changed by working at a subconscious level. We explain to clients what we'll do and how we'll do it then work through a structured process with them. In most cases this is less than a 2 hour session with a 1 your follow up. The change is immediate and lasting. There may be other triggers or deeper trauma or learnings that would need to be changed before this work can be done. Once this is changed it tends to generalize to all areas of their lives.

Changing Dyslexia

We've been working with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, writing and reading for some years now. We've developed a programme that takes clients through understanding how dyslexia occurs and how we can help them change that. Following on from this they find it easy to learn words with children learning up to 30 new words a day and adults with literacy problems learning as much as 150 words per day. Our results with this work are consistent change.