Description: This dialogue offers a practical, experience-near way of understanding emotions as signals that organize physiology, meaning, and action. Drawing from Ericksonian hypnosis, NLP, and clinical examples, it explores how emotions like grief, anger, fear, and curiosity can be worked with indirectly, through perception, language, and structure, rather than confrontation. The conversation gives therapists concrete ways to reduce emotional intensity, restore flexibility, and support regulation across diverse clients and cultures.
Steve Andreas, NLP, is an American psychotherapist and author specializing in Neuro-linguistic programming. With his wife and partner Connirae, they are the co-editors and/or authors of many NLP books (both classics from the early days of the field, and new innovations) and over fifty NLP articles.
Consuelo Casula, Lic Psych, is a psychologist and a psychotherapist with a private practice in Milan, Italy, and a trainer for hypnosis and psychotherapy. She is in the Board of Directors of SII, President-Elect of ESH and Secretary/treasurer of ISH. She writes books on communication skills, leading groups, creating metaphors, resilience, and women's development.