How to Run a Psychological Breakthrough Session
A 6-day course for experienced, advanced coaches and NLPers (limited spaces available) who like to work at a deeper, transformational level with clients without encroaching into the psychotherapy domain.
You could easily recoup the course investment in just a day or two, leaving you and your clients to benefit for the rest of your coaching career.
How to Run a Breakthrough Session
Overview of 'How to Run a Psychological Breakthrough Session'
As an experienced coach and / or NLPer,
- do you sometimes wish you were able to work at a deeper, transformational level with clients without encroaching into the psychotherapy domain?
- would you like to learn transformational, NLP-based advanced coaching techniques from two highly experienced Coaches and NLP Master Trainers?
- would you like to be able to create deep, lasting change with clients in a 4-6 hour intensive session?
If so, this 6-day course (run in three two-day modules) will equip you with the skills to do this.
Who is this course suitable for?
The course is open to experienced coaches who can demonstrate that they meet one of the following criteria (we will wish to interview all applicants before acceptance onto the course):
- 250 coaching client contact hours with evidence of ongoing supervision
- NLP Practitioner & Master Practitioner certification + 50 hours of supervised coaching practice
- ILM, CIPD or CMI Level 5 or Level 7 coach certification + 50 hours of supervised coaching practice
- Association for Coaching (AC) – Professional Coach level
- International Coach Federation (ICF)– PCC level
- European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) – Senior Practitioner level
Why is this course so useful for you?
- This course will teach you how to run a Breakthrough Session in just a few hours, which you could offer to existing clients or as a one-off coaching service,
- Being able to help transform a client’s life will be deeply satisfying to you professionally, and adds another ‘string to your bow’ commercially (in other words, you could recoup the course investment in just a day or two), leaving you and your clients to benefit for the rest of your coaching career,
- As part of the course, you will have your own Breakthrough Session (as client), so you will experience your own breakthrough. This change in perception is bound to improve your results and outcomes,
- You will be able to use elements of the course as coaching tools during existing coaching relationships, and hence expand your coaching toolkit significantly, even if a full Breakthrough Session is not suitable or required.
What will you learn on the course?
You will learn the following advanced NLP tools:
- Advanced Values work, including elicitation, Values conflicts, and identifying and understanding why a client’s Values can be preventing them from being, doing and having what they want to be, do and have
- Advanced Language Patterns, including how to ‘by-pass’ a client’s conscious mind to help identify with what the underlying issue is
- ‘Prime Concerns’; uncovering deeply-held pattern-level unhelpful beliefs
- ‘Parts’ Alignment; identifying and removing internal conflicts which can cause clients to block their own success.
- Time Lining and ‘Re-imprinting’; clearing ‘baggage’ such as negative emotions (e.g. Anger, Fear, Guilt), limiting beliefs and relationship ‘hangovers’, leaving the client more able to experience their authentic self rather than their ‘baggaged’ self.
- How to run a 4-6 hour Breakthrough session, including actually doing one on the course and experiencing one.
- In addition, for coaches who are not NLP Practitioners, you will be required to study NLP language patterns prior to the course to help facilitate the breakthrough session. These patterns will add to your existing coaching skills.
Your Trainers
The course will be run by highly experienced coaches and NLP Master Trainers Dr Lisa de Rijk and Jeremy Lazarus.
Lisa is:
- A UKCP accredited psychotherapist
- A highly experienced business coach
- A published author
- A Research Fellow at Kings College, London
- A Registered General Nurse
Jeremy is:
- A Master Executive Coach, and member of the Association for Coaching’s Coach Accreditation Team
- A highly experienced Leadership and Business coach, specialising in coaching in the workplace and with athletes
- A published author
- A guest lecturer at UK Universities
- A former Finance Director, Corporate Treasurer and Management Consultant
Together, Lisa and Jeremy have over 50 years of coaching and personal transformation experience, and have run these courses numerous times.
Course details
Dates: 21-22 October, 4-5 November and 18-19 November 2025 (plus pre-study for non-NLP Practitioners)
Location: Zoom, 9.30am to 5.30 pm, UK time
Price: £1,995, plus VAT if you can reclaim it (plus £200 for non-NLP Practitioners to cover the NLP language patterns). Payment by instalment is available.
Course size: Because of the nature of the course, we are limiting the course numbers to 20 people.
Please note that because of the nature of the course (and many of our other courses), it may not be suitable for people who have a significant mental health condition. We will discuss this with all applicants who have not previously trained with us.
Your next steps
Because of the nature of the course, as outlined above it is available only to experienced and accredited coaches. Consequently, we will want to have a brief chat with you as part of your application and booking process to ensure that the course is suitable for you.
If you would like to apply for the course, please contact:
- Lisa de Rijk, Awaken Consulting & Training Services Ltd, lisa@awakenconsulting.co.uk, +44 (0)7802 985282, or
- Jeremy Lazarus, The Lazarus Consultancy Ltd, jeremy@thelazarus.com, +44 (0)20 8349 2929
If you are interested, please contact us quickly as there are limited spaces.
