Summary: It is considered to be general knowledge that hypnosis and hypnotherapy is often aided by rapport and trust between the hypnosis professional and the client. However, there are questions over the best ways to develop rapport. The emerging field of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) states that the way to develop rapport is to match and mirror language, nonverbal cues and other things we observe in our clients in order to develop rapport. Here we examine whether there is any evidence to suggest that this is actually the case or not.
