Chat with NLP Practitioner and Health & Life Coach Marsha Parcou |21 December 2023

Marsha Parcou

‘NLP helped me face some of my fears and taught me how to break through the fear barrier’

Marsha Parcou, who needs no introduction, has recently been certified as a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner. She is also an experienced health and life coach. This is a type of wellness professional who helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfilment. Life coaches help their clients to improve their relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives. 

Seychelles NATION: Please tell us what is a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner?

Marsha Parcou: We all have limiting beliefs, we can all procrastinate at times, we all have fears and we all experience anxiety. If we can reframe these things, through working with our mind, we can overcome these patterns and build new healthier ones that serve us better. NLP is all about doing the work within our mind to make change happen.

Seychelles NATION: Where does NLP come from?

Marsha Parcou: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a communication and interpersonal skills training model developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP has become fairly well known around the world.

Seychelles NATION: What does NLP look like?

Marsha Parcou: NLP involves many different tools and techniques that help us reframe the way we see and feel about the world, that help us model and remodel our behaviour, language, strategies and beliefs and that helps us anchor ourselves and allows us to face our fears more easily.

Seychelles NATION: How long does NLP take to work, what does NLP work for and who is NLP for?

Marsha Parcou: NLP can work very effectively over the short term, perhaps only 2 or 3 sessions, or for bigger issues on a more case by case basis. NLP can work really well to help people manage stress and anxiety, to help them challenge limiting beliefs and to tackle phobias and fears. NLP can be quite effective in helping clear old emotions and old patterns of behaviour that no longer serve us.

Anyone who has a desire to change their worldview and how they relate to others can use NLP to make changes in their lives.

Seychelles NATION: What got you motivated to join the course?

Marsha Parcou: I embarked on the course to increase my leadership, communication, relationship and coaching skills. In turn, these can lead to achieving what I want and having a significantly more successful and fulfilled life.

Also to have more tools and skill to help out people who are in need in Seychelles as I describe my own personal experience.

Seychelles NATION: What is your personal experience with NLP?

Marsha Parcou: I have many certificates – diplomas, degrees and masters – but none of them gives me that sense of accomplishment and achievement as completing my course and training in NLP with the NLP World. I am proud to say that I am now a certified NLP practitioner! It has been one of most rewarding courses and training that I have ever undertaken.

Not only do I have more tools to help my clients to achieve their goals but I find that the course has transformed me on both a personal and professional level. For example, it has helped me face some of my fears, such as flying, while the techniques implemented have helped me to understand how I might break through the fear barrier and limiting beliefs

I am looking forward to empowering more people utilising NLP techniques to facilitate lasting and transformative change.

Compiled by Vidya Gappy

Photos: Contributed