Nick Kemp – Creator of the PCW Model

Nick Kemp has been involved in the field of personal change for over thirty years, having studied many forms of communication and personal development, including hypnosis, provocative therapy, and NLP.  Between 1980 and 1998, he taught workshops on personal development. Nick works both in groups and individually for professional and personal work. He runs a successful private practice, and also provides business training to companies by appointment.

In 2004, Nick Kemp met Frank Farrelly (creator of Provocative Therapy and an influence on the creators of NLP). He began intensive training with him to become one of the very few internationally approved Farrelly Provocative Therapy Trainers.

Nick and Frank became firm friends, co-presenting at Provocative Therapy events and spending far too many hours watching classic movies at Nick’s home cinema in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Nick set up The Association for Provocative Therapy (AFPT) and released “Provocative Change Works for Phobias”, which was the first of several DVD sets with commentary from Frank Farrelly himself. In addition to teaching classic Provocative Therapy (PCW), Nick has created his own Provocative Change Works approach, which he teaches internationally and to private clients.

Frank Farrelly made the following comment about Nick’s PCW work –

“You’ll find his work, Provocative Therapy mixed with Hypnosis, quite a blend and Enlightening!”

In 2006, Nick was a guest on BBC Radio for 26 consecutive weeks, working with clients live on air. Individuals would be invited to contact the show; Nick would work with them, and they would report back, all within the show’s one-hour time frame.  In recent years, he has run in-house trainings for businesses as well as his own Provocative Change Works trainings for the public in Asia, the USA and Europe.

Nick has contributed a chapter on Provocative Change Works to “Innovations in NLP ”, published by Crown House Publishing, where he outlines how this approach can be used to produce lasting client change.  He also contributed to Steve Andreas’s “Transforming Negative Self Talk”, explaining his voice tempo exercise for resolving anxiety problems.

AWhen not teaching PCW around the world and online, Nick sees clients on Zoom.