NLP Practitioner Certification (ABNL) and Time Line Therapy™ Training (TLTA) Certification

 Become a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner

 AND

A Time Line Therapy™ Practitioner 

Finally, now you can become certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner and a Time Line Therapy® Practitioner through either live, in-person training or distance education from anywhere in the world, and receive training from one of the best in these fields.

Using a combination of pre-study at home and online training sessions, you will receive the best of convenience and interactive training from your trainer, and study at your own pace. Take as little or as long as you want to complete this training!

Become a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a communication model that can be applied to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. It has been widely used for more than 50 years throughout the world in fields as diverse as health care, therapy, business, education, Olympic athletic training, and more.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a communication model of excellence that will enable you to help clients take control of their thoughts, emotions, and actions to determine their own destiny, as well as how to do that for yourself.

NLP is recognized as the most results-driven, practical, method for detecting, understanding and controlling our conscious and unconscious thinking.

In this certification class, we will show you how to harness the power of NLP and apply it to yourself and others — individually, in business, education, relationships, and more.

What You Will Learn in this NLP Training

Here’s what you will learn when you attend this certification class and become a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner:

  • Understand the basics of NLP — principles and starting points
  • Discover fundamental beliefs to empower Mind Mastery
  • Identify and take control of the complex connections between your mind, emotions and behavior
  • Understand how you learn, communicate, change, and evolve

When you become certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, you will be able to very quickly change your own and your client’s state of mind from an un-resourceful to a resourceful state — in just seconds. You will also learn how to uncover and speak your client’s most basic, unconscious, language so that they most easily and quickly accept your hypnotic suggestions. Some the topics you will cover. 

  • Definitions of NLP
  • The NLP Communication Model
  • Five Principles of Success
  • State vs. Goal — What's the difference?
  • Keys to an Achievable Outcome
  • Well Formedness Conditions
  • The Presuppositions of NLP
  • Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind
  • Observing Other People
  • Rapport — how to create instant liking and agreement
  • Representational Systems Preference Test — how we use our five senses to represent information internally
  • Predicates — including a List of Key Predicate Phrases
  • Favored Representational Systems
  • Intonation Patterns
  • Eye Pattern Chart
  • Eye Pattern Questions
  • Submodalities Points — the secret programming software of your mind
  • Examples of Triggers in NLP Contexts
  • Submodalities Like to Dislike Script
  • Submodalities Belief Change Script
  • Swish Patterns
  • Submodalities Swish Pattern Script
  • The Conscious Use of Language
  • Language patterns — the words you use to demonstrate your intellectual attributes and personal characteristics
  • Pressuppositions  — how to see and hear what a person's language means
  • "Thimk"
  • Hierarchy of Ideas 
  • Milton Model — Hypnotic Language Patterns
  • Metaphor Outline — how to create transformational metaphors
  • The Meta Model 
  • Anchoring — how to control your feelings and state of mind
  • State Elicitation Script
  • States for Stacking Anchors
  • Collapse Anchors
  • Chaining Anchors
  • New Orleans Flexibility Drill
  • NLP Change Personal History
  • Physiology of Excellence
  • Strategies — how to control mental processes to create specific benefits (motivation, learning, spelling, etc.)
  • T.O.T.E. Model of Strategies
  • NLP Notation
  • Strategy Elicitation
  • Six Step Reframe
  • Meta Moedl III
  • NLP Model of Therapy
  • Parts Integration — how to detect and stop inner conflicts
  • Dissociative Techniques
  • Fast Phobia Model
  • Reframing — how to change the meaning of a situation or behavior
  • The NLP Family Therapy Model — how to resolve conflict in families and marriages
  • The NLP 5-Step Sales Process — how to sell with integrity in a way that delights clients
  • Negotiation-Influencing Skills — how to negotiate / influence for a “win-win” every time
  • The Meeting Format — how to plan and manage meetings to get the most effective results
  • Certification Standards
  • And more!

When you become a Certified NLP Practitioner, you will be able to apply what you’ve learned across: 

  • Health care / health and wellness coaching
  • Therapy / counseling / coaching  
  • Consulting / coaching
  • Performance enhancement
  • Personal growth and change
  • Learning and education
  • Relationships — both business and personal
  • All forms of communication, including sales, advertising, HR, and business in general 

Become a Certified Time Line Therapy® Practitioner 

Time Line Therapy® is an advanced NLP and Hypnotic Technology that, like NLP, has been widely used around the globe for over 500 years to help people overcome traumas, release negative emotions, and delete limiting beliefs, as well as set goals in their Unconscious Minds in a way that they will definitely be achieved.

Time Line Therapy® techniques are the latest developments in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). They are unique and unmatched methods for creating powerful client changes in therapy, business, education, health coaching, athletic performance, and more. These techniques utilize a person’s own internal “Time Line” to work with their unconscious minds in a variety of ways; including, releasing emotional traumas and eradicating unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviors, as well as setting and achieving goals.

Time Line Therapy® has been so successful in its results that it has been utilized since 1986 by thousands of people including psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family counselors, social workers, life and business coaches, and even athletic coaches.

A person’s “Time Line” is how he or she unconsciously stores memories and knows the difference between a memory from the past and a projection of the future. People don’t change consciously. Instead, all behavior, learning, and change happens in the Unconscious Mind. Time Line Therapy® techniques allow you to work at the unconscious level and release the effects of past negative experiences and change “inappropriate” programming in minutes rather than days, months or years.

What You Will Learn in This Time Line Therapy® Training

When you attend this class you will learn how to help your client powerfully and permanently — typically in less than 20 minutes — release a major Negative Emotion or Limiting Belief like Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt, or Guilt, that has plagued them, sometimes, since childhood; including ones that are rooted in Significant Emotional Events such as trauma. Then you will learn how to help clients Set Achievable Goals and install them in their Unconscious Mind in a way that they will be achieved.

The specific collection of techniques called Time Line Therapy® produces long-lasting transformation very quickly and easily. The process is faster than what is currently called Brief Therapy. These powerful Time Line Therapy® techniques are becoming the method of choice to make fast, effective, long-term changes in behavior. 

Some of the things you will learn in this portion of the training are:

  • The Major Premise
  • Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind
  • Questioning for Results
  • Elicitation of the Time Line (methods #1 and #2)
  • First Test of Elicitation
  • Discovering the Root Cause
  • Negative Emotions #1 Script
  • The 3 Things to Check at Position #3
  • Notes Regarding Learnings
  • General Reframes
  • Anxiety Release
  • What to Do if a Client Associates Into a Traumatic Memory
  • Determining Limiting Decisions
  • Limiting Decisions Deletion
  • 3 Reasons Why Emotions Disappear
  • How to Change the Time Line (Location/Direction #1)
  • S.M.A.R.T. Goals
  • In Your Future
  • Fast Phobia Model
  • Parts Integration
  • How to Do a Time Line Therapy® Intervention
  • The CYF Coaching Cycle
  • Statement of Scope of Practice
  • Now, just imagine, after you attend these classes, you will be able to help your clients achieve amazing — seemingly miraculous — results for some of the most common presenting problems you will face as a hypnotist or coach

So, no matter what your profession or goals in life, you will benefit from attending these 7-days of certification classes and becoming certified in two of the most sought after and prestigious certifications in the world. By attending these classes, you can become both Certified NLP Practitioner and a Certified Time Line Therapy® Practitioner.

About Your Trainer

Your Trainer in these courses will be Dr. Steven C. Ethridge (Ph.D., M.Div, M.A., B.B.A.).

Steven has been trained in these fields by the late Dr. Tad James (Ph.D., M.A.), and The Tad James Company, who has trained more than any other company worldwide in these fields. Additionally, Dr. Tad James is the inventor of Time Line Therapy®, which is the most proven and authoritative, and only registered trade-marked set of Time Line Therapy™ technologies.

This NLP and Time Line Therapy® course will be the exact same material, manuals, PowerPoint presentation slides, style, and delivery system that is used by The Tad James Company. Both are approved by the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Time Line Therapy Association™.  Steven Ethridge and his company, Ethridge & Associates, L.L.C, are licensed to use the Tad James Company’s manuals and PowerPoint presentations, so you will be getting the exact same training program at this Conference at a fraction of the cost.

Steven Ethridge holds the following relevant certifications in these fields.

  • Certified NLP Trainer (American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • Certified NLP Coach Trainer (Coaching Division — American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • Certified Time Line Therapy™ Master Trainer (Time Line Therapy Association)
  • Certified Hypnosis Instructor (American Board of Hypnotherapy)
  • Certified NLP Master Practitioner and Master Coach (Coaching Division — American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • Certified Time Line Therapy™ Master Practitioner (Time Line Therapy™ Association)
  • Certified Hypnosis Instructor (American Board of Hypnotherapy)
  • Certified Master Hypnotist (American Board of Hypnotherapy)
  • Certified Hypnotherapist (American Board of Hypnotherapy)
  • Certified Consulting Hypnotist (National Guild of Hypnosis)

Steven has been studying NLP since 1987, initially as applied to sales, marketing, and advertising (copywriting, print layout, and videography). He has 40+ years of experience as a marketing communication consultant and coach specializing in communication development driven by research. Through that time, he has used NLP and Hypnotic Marketing to lead major national corporations and nonprofit organizations to achieve unprecedented Marketing Returns on Investment.

Since 2015, Steven has trained and certified Registered Nurses, Naturopathic Medical Doctors, Health Care Coaches, Psychologists, Business Executives, Consultants, Coaches, Marketing Professionals, Sales Professionals,  Educators, Athletic Coaches, and other types of professionals in NLP, Time Line Therapy™, and Hypnosis.

In addition to helping organizations with these skills, for the past 10 years, he has been serving clients as an NLP Practitioner, NLP Coach, Time Line Therapy® Practitioner, and Hypnotist to help individuals, small groups, and business owners improve their lives using these technologies.

We mention this not to impress you but to impress upon you that, when you attend these trainings, you will be trained by one of the highest qualified, experienced, and results-delivering trainers in these fields.

What’s the Schedule for These Two Certification Classes?

These classes will consist of two phases, as follows:

Phase 1: Pre-Study

After you register, you will be sent pre-study materials to complete before you arrive at class. These are: 

  • 20 hours of audios (mp3s) to listen to
  • The NLP Practitioner and Time Line Therapy™ Practitioner Manuals
  • Three books
  • A take-home test (open-ended, short answer questions)

Altogether, the Pre-Study Phase is rated to be about 60 hours of contact time with the materials.

You will be expected to complete the open-book take-home test and turn in your answers to the best of your ability by the first day of classes. Your trainer will review the test near the end of the course to ensure that you know the answers and how to apply them in a real NLP session with your client.

This means you will want to sign up today to have the most possible time to do the pre-study of the audios and readings. 

Phase 2: Live Classes

This Phase is rated to consist of 60 hours of online, interactive classes, broken out at times that are mutually convenient between you and your trainer.  The two of you will work together to develop a schedule that will work for both of you. 

After completing these certifications, you will be given the opportunity to join the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Time Line Therapy™ Association and also receive certificates from these world-recognized organizations. This way you can actually receive four certifications as a result of completing these classes. (Note that for Time Line Therapy®, Ethridge will present you with a certificate of achievement that you will then need to send to the Time Line Therapy Association™ to be certified as a Time Line Therapy™ Practitioner). 

Your Investment in Yourself

You can complete this training either through one of our live, in-person classes, online (Zoom) classes, or through our distance education hybrid approach where you do a portion of the course online at your own pace and a portion by interacting with your trainer either remotely over Zoom or in person, depending on your location.

To find out more, click here to book an appointment with your trainer,  Dr. Steven C. Ethridge. 

Note: We provide lifetime support for all of our certified students. If at any time after you become certified through us, you can contact us at any time with questions about how best to serve your clients or to succeed as an NLP Practitioner.

*  Time Line Therapy™ is a registered trademark of Tad James, and is exclusively licensed to The Time Line Therapy™ Association.