I have never faced any skepticism regarding having an NLP background. In my experience, people don’t even care about my background nor do they ask me. As long as they think I can help them, that is all they really care about. An additional note to that, I don’t advertise my NLP background either because I don’t use its’ strategies. As I learned more about NLP, something about it didn’t feel right to me. It helped me realize that having a toolbox full of strategies for different problems was not the approach I wanted to take. It became too superficial for me personally, I wanted to connect with people on a deeper level. I wanted to transform people from the most fundamental level, from the inside out. This is something NLP will not do. I liken NLP to a handyman who brings his toolbox whenever there is a problem, fixes it, and leaves. Whereas I wanted to transcend problems to get people to see there is nothing to fix, this is more of the inside-out approach that CTA will take. Therefore, it all depends on what kind of coach you want to be.