Addictions and the "hard edge" of working with clients

Clients seem to come in waves and the latest wage is a regular flow of clients with addictions and especially drug addicts! I am also begining to start a project with the Leeds Drugs Unit which I'm looking forward to as this will be groups rather than individual clients. I have arranged to meet Richard Gray at IASH as he created the Brooklyn Project that deals with this kind of problem. With addictions there is off course the literal drug addiction and the behavioural addiction and by changing the latter, the former can also be impacted.

This kind of work is a long way IMO from the standard NLP training exercises taught in workshops and is more the hard edge of working with clients. I have often pointed out how I find a lot of NLP online discussions quite embarassing and especially when some NLPers begin to call themselves therapists! Most wouldn't last 5 minutes with real clients and all the theory in the world just won't cut it!
Interestingly enough the best tools with addictive behaviours are proving to be a combination of Provocative Therapy and Hypnosis, rather than classic NLP. However the awareness of language is very useful in eliciting the client's strategy for creating "the problem" My intention is to add the Richard Gray interview to www.nlpmp3.com for the more serious NLP students to download.