Charging clients, the reasonable and the crazy

One of many questions I get asked is what to charge for NLP and Hypnosis one to one sessions. Unfortunately in recent years some NLPers have totally believed their own hype and today I was amazed to read that an NLP newsgroup owner was trying to bill unwitting clients a thousand pounds for a 3.5 hour hypnotic session. As the old saying goes "There's one born every minute..."

This kind of behaviour really IMO really gives a dreadful name to the field of NLP, almost as bad as when people misrepresent their qualifications and insurance when seeing clients.

The cost to any potential client is of course not just a financial one, it involves a proper duty of care from the practitioner and ensuring that time spent is to good effect. Most skilled practitioners are not what I would call "seminar junkies", but people who learn from a variety of different trainers and fields of work to generate a true level of skill and capability. I could count the very best on just one hand...