Other methods I use

Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a widely accepted and researched method of enabling people to make changes in their health, personal development, and relationships. It is a process of communicating with our own or someone else’s unconscious mind, assisted by having the person enter a relaxed state. It allows us to connect with the deepest programming within our minds and bodies. When the body relaxes and the mind quiets down, a natural re-balancing function of the body-mind system occurs.

Emotional Freedom Technique - EFT
EFT is an alternative medicine tool based on the theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field. This is also the base of the traditional acupuncture which is taught in Asian countries since thousands of years. Instead of poking needles into points of the meridians (the energy channels within a body) EFT just taps these acupuncture or acupressure points. Tapping on the meridians while thinking of a negative emotion alters the body's energy field and thereby restoring "balance."
Because negative emotions can cause mental and physical un-wellness or disease it is no wonder that EFT by changing negative emotions can also restore health by taking away the trigger for an illness.

Teaching good communication
"The glass is half full" or "The glass is half empty" mean the same with regards to the contents of the glass, but different things with regard to the mood the speakers are in.
In relationships with other people communication is very important. To be able to accept of being loved, some people need to SEE that they are loved, others need to HEAR that they are loved and others need to FEEL the love. Once you know how your partner wants to experience your love it is easy to do so. Then you are not talking cross-purposes. This is just one small example how you can improve any relationship.
Most people mean well in a relationship, but do find it so very hard to get their point across. In family therapy I often spend a lot of time just ensuring that people involved in the relationship do understand each other by teaching communication skills.

The Power of the Subconscious Mind
All these methods make use of the subconscious within a person's mind. Let me say a few things about how our brain works:
Latest scientific research revealed that the way the brain stores information is unique: each and every memory one can remember is stored together with an associated feeling (and an associated hormone or neurotransmitter, which will be released when you want to remember a memory), be it a good or bad feeling. By remembering any memories one automatically recalls the associated feelings with it, too. It takes the brain just a few similar incidents associated with the same feeling to automate the process by setting up a neuronal network. Whenever similar incidents in the future will happen, the same feelings will come up – but then the process is running automated, meaning in the subconscious mind.
We represent information to ourselves as a combination of our five senses (the things we see, hear, taste, feel, and smell) and in our unique way. This is why when two people have a similar experience, like watching the same movie, the experience they have is never the same! For one person a movie could be enjoyable, and another could find it upsetting. In this way there is no ultimate ‘reality’, but only an individual interpretation of reality connected to the one who experiences it. And that depends on the feelings which have been associated with similar events in the past and the automated or subconscious reaction of our brain.
The interpretations we make out of an event depend on the neuronal networks which get activated by an event. This runs at the subconscious level, where our primary functions are stored, such as:
• body functions (breathing, growing hair, healing, etc.)
• habitual behaviours (driving a car, speaking languages, etc.)
• memories, emotions, skills
• resources to make changes and be successful

All our behaviours are memorised, or learned. Some are learned consciously (like driving a car), and some are learned unconsciously (like a fear of spiders). The more the behaviour is repeated, the better it runs, until it becomes automatic. It then runs at the subconscious level outside the conscious awareness, that means we no longer need to concentrate on it. When we first learn to drive, we consciously think of where the wheel, pedals, mirrors are and what we need to do with them before even starting a car. Once we have learned and memorised the sequence, we no longer think of it consciously and driving almost happens automatically. This subconscious competence is the very structure of excellence. We excel by repetition.
Ironically, the same is accurate for negative behaviours, the ones we are not happy about. For example, imagine a child who once got scared of a spider. Next time they encounter a spider, they remember to ‘get scared’. Then they keep repeating this behaviour, and in a while even pictures or the word ‘spider’ cause the frightening response. The more they repeat a negative behaviour, the more of an expert they become at it, so much so that suddenly it seems they are not doing it anymore. It seems ‘just happening outside of their control’, automatically! However, these behaviours must be stored and organised in the nervous system for them to keep happening automatically. Often people do not consciously know what and especially how they do something. This is where NLP is important. It helps you see and understand how you can change the responses/behaviours that don’t work for you to the ones that get you the results you want (e.g. how we can teach the brain of a child who is scared of spiders to produce a more resourceful, comfortable response).