This intervention by David Grove is taken from a therapist training video called Tapestry. The client comes with a long-standing feeling of shame. It is important to note that when working with shame, anger, or guilt, the retelling of the story often reinvests the emotion and perhaps re-traumatizes the client all over again. An important feature of this intervention is how David works in such a way that the client does not have to reveal the content of the particular experience.

Sam's addiction started as the sort of petty pattern of occasional craving that touches most of the people I know. He has a compulsion - not for drugs, sex, smoking or gambling, but chocolate. I'm fascinated by this because I like chocolate myself, and I can identify with him enough to know there's a fine line sometimes between liking and craving, and a short step from craving to compulsion. As this is such a universal problem I want to try an experiment and share my work with Sam as it happens. As I write we've had our first session and have contracted for half a dozen more. We have no idea what the outcome will be.

A therapist and client describe their experience of Clean Language and Metaphor Therapy (originated by David Grove)

A 10 minute video clip of a Symbolic Modelling session is used to illustrate: the use of the Clean Language of David Grove; working with client-generated metaphor; and facilitating the client to self-model.

A young woman whom I had previously facilitated using Symbolic Modelling, calls me asking for an appointment. She tells me she has a problem with her 3-year old son: she is pregnant and her son gets angry and hits her almost every day. The appointment is set at my home, a country house with a garden where toys are available, among which are two bicycles: a blue one and a yellow one. ...

This is a case study of a successful hypnotherapy session with an addicted woman. Michael uses David Grove's Clean Language and early metaphor work. He demonstrates great respect for the client's inner world which supports her to recover from her traumatising experiences of sexual abuse.