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Narrative therapy is a type of psychotherapy which aims to assist patients in recounting their stories (or narratives) of their lives, which is, on a basic level, an attempt to distance that person from their problems.
Natural hormone replacement therapy may also be referred to as ‘bioidentical hormone replacement therapy’ or BHRT. It is a treatment designed primarily to alleviate the effects of the menopause in women.
Naturopathy is also known as naturopathic medicine, and it is an alternative healing system which promotes self-healing.
Neuro cranial reconstruction or neuro cranial restructuring therapy is a manipulative type of treatment which is said to re-align and restore the shape of the skull and also to rehydrate the brain.
Neuro emotional technique, or NET, is a psychotherapeutic alternative form of therapy which is based on the idea that emotional and behavioural problems are linked to physical conditions within the body. Hence, by addressing one problem you are also addressing another.
Neuro Linguistic Programming is often shortened to simply NLP, and is an alternative form of psychotherapy based on language and communication to support self and personal change. NLP was developed by a linguist, John Grindler, and a mathematician, Richard Bandler, in the 1970s, when they aimed to determine patterns between behaviour and communication. Their work was based on that of three successful and popular psychotherapists – Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton H. Erickson.
Neurofeedback therapy is sometimes also referred to as neurotherapy, neurobiofeedback or as neurofeedback training. It is a type of therapy which uses a form of real-time feedback on the client’s brainwave activity which can be used for a variety of forms of therapy.
Neuromodulation technique therapy is an alternative form of therapy based on the theory that our bodies have the ability to heal themselves, and that illness is as a result of imbalances in our body’s unique healing processes.
Nutritional therapy is considered to be an alternative form of medicine, despite the fact that it is widely recognised throughout the medical world that good nutrition and diet is crucial for health and wellbeing.