For a moment, I found myself at a loss as to how to proceed. I'd known the client sat before me for a few years now, and had helped him create incredible changes.

But, bizarrely, he seemed to have relapsed to the worse I'd ever seen him.

Sure, there'd been a build up of recent life events leading up to the recent episodes ... but even so, it didn't make sense why he should be feeling so low, so lost, so desperate.

We'd already had a few intense sessions over the previous couple of weeks, but despite my best efforts, nothing seemed to be working.

We'd done a lot of regression when we first met, and cleared through a huge amount of childhood trauma, with great benefit, and now it seemed a pointless exercise to go there.

Every moment of every day had become an intense struggle, and he was beginning to lose faith.

I was his last hope again, as I had been before, only this time, I seemed to be failing too.

Snapping to my senses after a moment of quiet and realising he was looking at me desperately, expectantly, I asked him to settle back and close his eyes, buying myself some time.

"Just take a breath and relax a moment", I said, but I could hear the lack of conviction in my own voice.

"C'mon!", I chastised myself. "Focus!"

But on what? Although rare for me, I was literally at a loss ... and so I did part of an exercise I had been teaching on my "Living From The Real You" course.

I surrendered, I let go, I stopped thinking of what to do. "Help me", I quietly said to myself, and let go again, just focusing on a loving and peaceful outcome for the client before me.

I resisted the urge to act or speak, and just sat with the silence a while longer ... when suddenly the client started to speak, but in a slightly unusual way.

At first my heart sank, as the words spoken seemed to reinforce the hopelessness of the situation.

"Trust", I told myself. "Trust yourself, trust the moment", I said, getting back into my "Point Of Power".

And as I said these words to myself, an inkling of an idea came to mind.

"Keep going", I told the client, but not actually knowing what to do next.

"Now do this", I instructed, still unsure what to do next.

"Now this", I instructed, becoming slightly intrigued ... and then I sat back, as moments later, the client hit the spot we'd been looking for.

A huge abreaction followed and as it did, I instinctively knew what to do next, keeping the client in the moment while the process completed.

"I feel a weight has been lifted", said the client. "I feel different".

I sat back, gently breathing a quiet sigh of relief, running through what just happened so I could lock it in my mind to use again.

I didn't have to wait long. A new client I'd never met before booked in a course of sessions, and at our first meeting it was like I hit a brick wall.

I switched to my new approach and we immediately made progress. Slower than I'd have liked at first, but progress at least, which continued to improve with each session.

I now integrate this approach into every session in one way or another, sometimes as a stand alone treatment, sometimes blending it with other techniques.

But I wonder how I ever managed without it.