Metaphor Coaching

Metaphor coaching — using clean language, is a wonderful therapeutic process which enables you to tap in to your own healing wisdom.

In a session, I will guide you to explore the symbolic landscape in your subconscious mind. It effectively creates a bridge between the subconscious and conscious worlds and allows you to find inner resources, heal the past, resolve problems and create solutions.

Symbolic Landscape - Metaphor therapy - London

Clean language was developed by the late psychologist David Groves. He developed it through his work with trauma victims such as war veterans and survivors of sexual abuse. A wonderful thing about the process is that it does not require you to relive past traumas in order to heal; all the necessary information is contained within your metaphoric landscape.

Within the subconscious mind is an entire world of metaphors which we often use in our communication without realising — consider the war metaphors used to describe an argument; “I am not backing down on this”, “I had a fight with my partner”, “I feel like you are attacking me”. Humans are meaning makers and we understand and process metaphors at a deep subconscious level. Metaphor work gives you the ability to explore this world and and heal, without risking re-traumatisation.

Working with metaphor allows for neuroplasticity to occur and an effective session actually changes and creates new and desired neural pathways. Old neural pathways and memories are not deleted but the new pathways become the new way of responding to cues.

Metaphor work is fun and enjoyable. It can involve the use of drawing - although no drawing skills are necessary! You may find it soothing and feel understood on a deep level.

I will facilitate the process by guiding you through your metaphoric world, with a series of slightly strange sounding questions and by using strictly your own words and metaphors. It is a self-learning process and I will not be analysing you or putting my thoughts or opinions into the session, hence the name ‘Clean Language’.

Metaphor coaching can allow for deep changes to occur, you can solve long-standing problems, create change at a deep level, break unwanted patterns of behaviour and find inner resources at a level of mind and body.

It is a deep dive of the mind, trusting that everything you need, in order to heal and self-regulate is already contained within you.

ICF Coach London
NLP Master Practitioner

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space — Orson Scott Card

I developed a keen interest for clean language following my training as an NLP master practitioner. I could see the power and beauty of this technique. Initially it appeared simple but the more I learned, the more complex and meaningful I realised it was. I then took the opportunity to undertake further training with an amazing Clean Language facilitator in the States, in order to be able to work with this incredible healing modality.

A metaphor coaching session is 50 minutes long. Sessions can be taken in my office in W1, London or worldwide via zoom. It can also form part of a coaching session.