Do you think of yourself as an anxious person? This can lead you to think that anxiety is your lot; that there is damn all you can do about it. Well, that isn’t true at all and you are confining yourself to a limiting box if you continue to believe that...
Denise Winn describes how the rewind technique helped with a mother and son’s complex responses to his near-fatal injury.
Julia Welstead looks at the impact of bereavement and grief
Lee Pycroft describes how a beauty makeover can trigger self-care and self-respect in vulnerable or traumatised women.
How a Faulklands war veteran overcame the severe flashbacks and panic attacks he suffered for 20 years after a horrifically traumatising experience during his service in the navy.
Counsellors who use it know that the rewind technique is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy devised a study to test it.
Breathing techniques are not just 'mind tricks; they produce a bodily response that lowers your anxiety in a very physical way.
Suffering from trauma can have a significantly detrimental impact on a person’s mental and physical health, and quality of life. It can also greatly affect the lives of those around them.
Ezra Hewing looks into trauma and suggests that dissociation, as activated in REM sleep, may explain both the treatments that work best and why trauma can result in shutdown.
Joe Griffin suggests that post-traumatic stress disorder treatments that can yield immediate success share an underlying mechanism, which explains their effect.
A young Russian woman, Nina, describes how just three sessions of human givens therapy lifted her suicidal depression and turned her life around...
Mike Beard's therapist account of Nina's treatment.
Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how using a variety of techniques, as in the human givens approach, can best help severely distressed people.
