Connirae Andreas

Connirae Andreas is an American author and psychotherapist who is known for her work within the field of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

Education

Connirae Andreas studied undergraduate psychology at the University of Kansas in 1975. She obtained an MA in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado in 1979 and a PhD in psychotherapy from North Central University in 1989.{{Cite web|title=Connirae Andreas {{!}} PhD|url=https://catalog.erickson-foundation.org/speaker/connirae-andreas|access-date=2022-01-08|website=catalog.erickson-foundation.org|language=en}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=January 2022}}

Career

She is the originator of the Core Transformation process which uses symptoms to bring a person into the interpersonal realm.{{Cite book|last=Dryden|first=Windy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8XSTgxHRVAC&dq=%22Connirae+Andreas%22&pg=PA135|title=Developments in Psychotherapy: Historical Perspectives|date=1996-08-22|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-84920-691-4|pages=135|language=en}} Andreas taught and developed that process with her sister and co-author, Tamara Andreas. Their book Core Transformation has been published in 12 languages,{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} and is an approach that has been described as "elegant", {{Cite book|last=Lukovich|first=Nebo D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDZBDwAAQBAJ&dq=connirae+andreas&pg=PA75|title=Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques|date=2017-12-03|publisher=Reintegration Publishing|pages=75|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Foe|first=Alexander De|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0P9QBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Connirae+Andreas%22&pg=PA125|title=Hearts in Transcendence|date=2015-01-16|publisher=Author House|isbn=978-1-4969-6008-5|pages=125, 126, 128, 131-132, 145-146|language=en}}{{Rp|page=125}} "fascinating",{{Cite book|last=Sauer|first=François W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdqBixJ0WfUC&dq=%22Connirae+Andreas%22+and+tamara+andreas&pg=PA101|title=Relearn, Evolve, and Adapt|date=2008|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-48917-6|pages=101|language=en}} "profound",{{Cite book|last=Barton|first=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8SsAgAAQBAJ&dq=connirae+andreas&pg=PT99|title=Acting Reframes: Using NLP to Make Better Decisions In and Out of the Theatre|date=2011-04-07|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-81298-9|language=en}} "pioneering",{{Cite book|last=PC|first=Om Prakash PhD|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8VHDwAAQBAJ&dq=connirae+andreas&pg=PA152|title=From Change to Transformation and Beyond: Maintaining Balance on the Fast Track of Life|date=2012-04-28|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4697-4658-6|pages=151–152|language=en}} and "interesting". Connirae and her sister further discussed the process in subsequent publications.{{Cite book|last=Hoyt|first=Michael F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRbXHdyMUA8C&dq=connirae+andreas&pg=PA19|title=Constructive Therapies V2|date=1998-10-01|publisher=Guilford Press|isbn=978-1-57230-424-6|pages=19|language=en|quote=The senior author [Connirae Andreas], recognized as a major figure in the neurolinguist programming (NLP) field through her trainings and coauthorship...}}{{Cite book|chapter=Chapter 12 Core Transformation: A brief therapy approach to emotional and spiritual healing|first1=Connirae|last1=Andreas|first2=Tamara|last2=Andreas |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30076824|title=Constructive therapies|date=1994–1996|pages=275–305|publisher=Guilford Press|editor=Michael F. Hoyt|isbn=0-89862-094-5|location=New York|oclc=30076824}}{{Cite journal|last1=Andreas|first1=Connirae|last2=Andreas|first2=Tamara|date=2009|title=Aligning Perceptual Positions: A New Distinction in NLP|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDAPP|journal=Journal of Consciousness Studies|volume=16|issue=10–12|pages=10–12}}

Connirae Andreas worked with her husband, Steve Andreas, in multiple areas of NLP. They have published several books on NLP through the Real People Press publishing business established by Steve Andreas. Their first book on NLP, Frogs Into Princes sold over 500,000 copies.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} The couple has also edited several books of the work of the founders of NLP Richard Bandler and John Grinder, including Trance-FormationsBandler, Richard, John Grinder, Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Trance-Formations (1981) and Using Your Brain for a Change.Bandler, Richard, John Grinder, Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Using Your Brain for a Change (1985) In 1979 they established NLP Comprehensive, based in Colorado, to organize NLP trainings.{{Cite book|last=Butler-Bowdon|first=Tom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS2fDAAAQBAJ&q=connirae+andreas|title=The Literature of Possibility|date=2013-08-06|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-1-4736-4504-2|pages=21|language=en|quote=Steve Andreas as an industrial chemist before becoming an NLP trainer and developer of new methods. With his wife Connirae he founded the NLP Comprehensive in Colorado in 1979 (which offered the first ever NLP training certification), and with her has co-authored two boos, Change Your Mind-And Keep the Change (1987) and Heart of the Mind (1989).}}{{Cite book|last=Beaulieu|first=Danie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mAgBQAAQBAJ&q=connirae|title=Eye Movement Integration Therapy: The Comprehensive Clinical Guide|date=2003-04-24|publisher=Crown House Publishing|isbn=978-1-84590-508-8|language=en}} In the 2013 book, Lisa Wake, Richard Gray, and Frank Bourke describe Connirae and her husband Steve as "two of the founding lights in NLP and its most well-known interpreters"{{Cite book|last1=Wake|first1=Lisa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xA3JNo89P50C&q=connirae+andreas|title=The Clinical Effectiveness of Neurolinguistic Programming: A Critical Appraisal|last2=Gray|first2=Richard M.|last3=Bourke|first3=Frank S.|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-63515-8|pages=128|language=en}}

Andreas is also known for her work developing Eye Movement Integration Therapy,{{Cite book|last=Dyk|first=Gideon Van|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuq9DwAAQBAJ&dq=eye+movement+integration+connirae+andreas&pg=PA181|title=Military Psychology for Africa|date=2016-03-17|publisher=AFRICAN SUN MeDIA|isbn=978-1-920689-96-4|pages=181|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Neukrug|first=Edward S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzWsCQAAQBAJ&q=connirae|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy|date=2015-02-12|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-5063-1432-7|language=en}} and has been an invited speaker at multiple Milton H. Erickson Foundation meetings. She is also an honorary fellow of the Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming.{{Cite web|title=ANLP Honorary Fellows - The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming|url=https://anlp.org/anlp-honorary-fellows|access-date=2022-01-08|website=anlp.org|language=en}}{{When|date=January 2022}}

Selected bibliography

{{cite book |last1=Andreas |first1=Connirae |last2=Andreas |first2=Tamara |title=Core transformation : reaching the wellspring within |date=1994 |publisher=Real People Press |location=Moab, Utah |isbn=0-911226-32-X}}
Translated into German in 1995,{{Cite book|last=Andreas|first=Connirae|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75605849|title=Der Weg zur inneren Quelle Core-Transformation in der Praxis ; neue Dimensionen des NLP|date=1995|others=Tamara Andreas|isbn=9783873871403|location=Paderborn|oclc=75605849}} English version reprinted in 2015{{Cite book|last=Andreas|first=Connirae|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29182466|title=Core transformation : reaching the wellspring within|date=1994|publisher=Real People Press|others=Tamara Andreas|isbn=0-911226-32-X|location=Moab, Utah|oclc=29182466}}
Psychology Today reviewed this in 2014{{Cite web|last=WInch|first=Guy|date=January 8, 2014|title=NLP Experts Speak Out {{!}} Psychology Today|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201401/nlp-experts-speak-out|access-date=2022-01-08|website=www.psychologytoday.com|language=en}}
Andreas, Connirae & Steve Andreas, Change your mind—and keep the change, advanced NLP submodalities interventions, Boulder, CO : Real People Press, 1987, {{ISBN|0-911226-28-1}}
Andreas, Connirae & Steve Andreas, Heart of the mind: engaging your inner power to change with neuro-linguistic programming, Boulder, CO : Real People Press, 1989, {{ISBN|0-911226-30-3}}
Fourth most popular non-fiction book in Lithuania in 2020{{Cite web|last=Karalius|first=Audrius Ožalas, Mažvydas|title=Perkamiausios metų knygos: kuo domėjosi lietuvių skaitytojai ir kaip jų pasirinkimus paveikė karantinas?|url=https://www.15min.lt/kultura/naujiena/literatura/perkamiausios-metu-knygos-kuo-domejosi-lietuviu-skaitytojai-ir-kaip-ju-pasirinkimus-paveike-karantinas-286-1413426|access-date=2022-01-08|website=15min.lt|language=lt}}
Also in French{{Cite book|last=Andreas|first=Connirae|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905096163|title=Au coeur de l'esprit : [la PNL en psychothérapie]|others=Steve Andreas, Myriam Zeghouani|year=2014|publisher=La Tempérance |isbn=978-2-917107-03-4|edition=[Edition 2014]|oclc=905096163}}
{{cite book|last1=Andreas|first1=Connirae|url=https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Wholeness-Awaken-Live-Ease-ebook/dp/B07JD89Z32|title=Coming to Wholeness: How to Awaken and Live with Ease|date=19 October 2018|publisher=Real People Press|language=English}}
Translated into German in 2020.{{cite book|last1=ANDREAS|first1=CONNIRAE|title=AUF DEM WEG ZUR GANZHEIT mit der wholeness-methode zur personlichen transformation;mit der wholeness-methode zur personlichen transformation.|date=2020|publisher=JUNFERMANN VERLAG|isbn=978-3749500727|location=[S.l.]|language=German}}

= Edited books =

{{cite book |last1=Bandler |first1=Richard |last2=Andreas |first2=Connirae |last3=Andreas |first3=Steve |title=Using your brain--for a change |date=1985 |publisher=Real People Press |location=Moab, Utah |isbn=978-0911226270}}

=Book chapters=

{{Cite book|last1=Andreas|first1=Steve|last2=Andreas|first2=Connirae|date=1992|chapter=Neuro-linguistic programming|url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-98543-001|access-date=2022-01-09|website=psycnet.apa.org|language=en|veditors=Budman SH, Hoyt MF, Friedman S|title=The first session in brief therapy|pages=14–35 }}

Andreas, Connirae & Andreas, Tamara. (1998). "Core Transformation: A Brief Therapy Approach to Emotional and Spiritual Healing" in Michael F. Hoyt (ed.) Constructive Therapies. Guilford Press.