You might come across the term “NLP therapy,” but experts don't recognize NLP as a type of psychotherapy. Some consider it pseudoscience, at best — and at worst, a fraudulent and ineffective approach that mainly exists to make money.

Neuro-linguistic programming is intended to help clients understand their own minds and how they come to think and behave the way they do. With the aid of NLP techniques, clients can learn to manage their moods and emotions and "reprogram" the way they process information.

There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates, and it has been called a pseudoscience. Scientific reviews have shown that NLP is based on outdated metaphors of the brain's inner workings that are inconsistent with current neurological theory, and that NLP contains numerous factual errors.