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.
In the midst of lockdown, and echoing the theme of this year's Mental Health Week, Julia Welstead takes a moment to consider acts of kindness, and what they can bring us all.
In 2016 Linda Allen launched her book “See You in Two Minutes Ma” which is an honest and frank account of living with the aftermath of her 15 year old son’s death by suicide.
Julie Lawrence explains some complex forms of PTSD caused by severe emotional harm in childhood, and explores a role for HG therapists. And Emily Gajewski shares her case experience below.
In 1991 Sue Hanisch was caught up in an IRA bombing at Victoria Station, London. As a result, she lost her right leg and suffered from severe PTSD for nine years…
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.
