I’ve always been fascinated by how our minds at both a conscious & unconscious level assist in our healing of any dis-ease be it a physical disease or a mental illness. I see my job as helping my clients to transform negative trances such as depression, anxiety, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder & depression into healthier ways of being in the world.
Paddi's Story"When I first came to see Caroline I was hard & snappy. I didnt feel that people understood how I was feeling & I felt very down. Now I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I am more relaxed & happier.
After sorting out the depression in 4 one hour sessions I have joined Carolines weight loss programme. I am really enjoying good food & I loving my exercise. I now walk every day & go to the gym 3xs a week. I have lost 11kg in weight & am steadily moving to my target weight; my blood pressure is down & I hope to gradually reduce my medication until I don't need it anymore. I feel so much better. I feel like a totally different person."
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"Ive lost 21kg so far (I was 90kg a year ago) & have only 3 kg more to go to reach my target weight. I'm almost off all my medication. My cholesterol is in the normal range now & I am only taking a small dose of one blood pressure tablet & hope to come off that soon too.
Im happy. Im really enjoying exercising & Im walking my 1st 1/2 marathon on May 1st. Working with Caroline has changed my whole outlook on life. I have a new lease of life."
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My Story by Jess"When I first came to see Caroline, I was a mess with lost hope. Panic attacks and anxiety had ruled my life for 26yrs the last 10yrs had been spent seeing five different psychologists doing cognitive behavioural therapy. I could write a book on Panic attacks I knew so much about them , yet they still ruled my life. I was having 2 or more attacks a week seeing my gp fortnightly, taking Lorazapam and Temazapam daily. I felt like a scared rabbit with a gun to my head. Terrified for the next panic attack. I felt like I was going crazy or in the middle of some terrible mental break down.
Caroline has changed my life. After 4hrs with her I have stopped Temazapam completely and am only taking 1/2 a 1mg pill of Lorapam at night, soon to be off that too. Best of all I have only had ONE attack in the last month!!! I feel less anxiety and am actually feeling happy at times! she has given me hope and really cares. I am so lucky to have met her she has changed my life using NLP and hypnotherapy. Im am so much more relaxed now. Caroline has given me practical advice to help me too.
There is hope out there. Thank you Caroline."
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"With a few techniques plus the hypnosis I now have the tools & the resources which I can grab hold of when I have a panic attack. I still do have occasional panic attacks when I get stressed but now I can go for several weeks with no panic attacks at all. The attacks now are so much shorter & only last about 5 seconds.
Not only am I less anxious & have fewer & shorter panic attacks but also Im no longer paralysed by fear & I have left a relationship that wasn’t serving me or my kids & I’ve been brave enough to be a solo mum & I feel so much more confident. Im now doing a training on line: a diploma in photography & my goal is to be a professional photographer. Plus I no longer need any medication. I am so very grateful."
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"I had lived with anxiety for all my life.. for as long as a could remember. It affected my self confidence, my memory & my sleep.
After one session with Caroline.. it was so profound, my mood changed from the heaviest blackest cloud to one of being calm & centred. I walked out of the session feeling like a different person. It truly was a profound experience.
It made such a difference so fast. I am now personally & publically confident in myself & my sleeping has improved immeasurably. I am truly thankful to NLP & to Dr Caroline Wheeler." |  |
“I have had problems with sleep for years & working with Caroline has given me back the ability to feel in control again of my sleeping. I strongly recommend people with problems sleeping to listen to her podcast on sleep & to use her sleep relaxation CD & if thats not enough to do as I did & have a session or two with Caroline herself. It is so good to sleep well again after years of not sleeping. “
A woman came to see me wanting to lose weight & she wanted to be toned & trim & look gorgeous. We looked at her values & what was important to her & in fact unconsciously she wanted the total opposite. Being overweight was her way of determining whether her partner loved her. So in order to be slim it was important for her to find other ways to realise that she was loved & that it was Ok for her to be that slim woman again . Then once her conscious & unconscious minds were both in agreement that she could be slim she lost weight effortlessly instead of the years of yo yo dieting that she had been doing.
When I was in my thirties I developed an essential tremor in one hand. I went to see a neurologist who told me that it would get progressively worse & would eventually affect my other hand & then my head.  This was obviously what the text books said & what some other people have experienced but it was too horrid an outcome to accept & not in my game plan or my paradym so I set out to find another outcome which suited me better. A few years later I found an answer in NLP & the tremor is now hardly noticeable. So much for congenital problems being set in stone. So what is the possible & what is the impossible? Is the impossible just an answer that we have not yet discovered?
I am not saying that NLP can cure anything. However it can often help someone to understand the reason for their dis-ease & help them explore what it is they need to do for themselves.
A client came to see me with excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis which in her case was excessive sweaty palms & feet. She told me that it was congenital & there was no way that she could ever get rid of the problem because being congenital that meant, to her, it was with her for life. We explored the problem. At first she was convinced that it happened all the time.. but working with her at a deeper level it was clear that it happened as soon she felt the least bit out of control. This was connected to something that happened to her as a young child. We talked about how important it is to be with symptoms & hear what the unconscious mind is “saying” through those symptoms.. ... As she embraced the symptoms instead of fighting them she found that her hands were dry alot of the time & when they were sweaty it was no longer an inconvenience but a opportunity to connect with herself in a deeper way.
Bodily symptoms are very often the only way the unconscious mind has of “communicating“ to our conscious mind. It is important therefore that we can can find a way to “hear“ what the symptoms are “saying”. Of course this is an anathama to orthodox medicine where when someone gets a symptom we use drugs to get rid of the symptom or a knife to cut it out.
As a doctor I still advocate the use of medication & surgery where necessary. I like to use what is most appropriate in any situation.
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