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Lucy Carpenter-Perkin
United KingdomExeterDevonI am a regular HG practitioner and have a wealth of experience in dealing with many types of issues from self-esteem, depression (all categories), trauma, work/life stress-related, elderly loneline
Mary Strugar
The Strugar CentreBlenheim MewsUnited KingdomFarnhamEnglandGU9 7FYHospital of St John and St ElizabethSt John’s WoodUnited KingdomLondonEnglandNW8 9NHNo 7 Harley StreetUnited KingdomLondonEnglandW1G 9QYMary is a Human Givens Psychotherapist and a Nutritionist.
Christine McIntyre
United KingdomDarlingtonCo-DurhamMy background is in teaching in FE/HE sector training counsellors; alongside this I have worked as a qualified therapist since 1993 with clients from a wide range of backgrounds including an NHS Dr
Inga Springell
United KingdomAshfordKentI have 16 years’ experience, working with children, adolescents and their families in a therapeutic capacity within a variety of educational and supportive settings.
Claire Morris
York Human Givens Wellbeing Centre33 Bishopthorpe RoadUnited KingdomYorkYO23 1NAMy practice is at the York Human Givens Wellbeing Centre and currently runs every Saturday.
Karen Webb
United KingdomMalvernEnglandWR14 1PHStarting out as a management trainer and HR professional, for the last 25 years I’ve been a counsellor and life coach, and run workshops in personal development.
Annie Gurton
Sydney NSWAustraliaA lifetime of personal experience including four marriages, children and step-children. "You can't tell me anything that I haven't heard before."
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Lynda Bryer
United KingdomSouthseaHampshirePO4Lynda has worked for the NHS for 15 years. She has helped to develop mental health services ranging from a forensic secure unit to older peoples services.
Sarah Moliver
United KingdomCheltenhamGloucestershireI have worked for many years as General Practitioner in the NHS.
Gillian Legge
United KingdomPontypriddWalesUnited KingdomLlantrisantWalesCF72United KingdomCaerphillyWalesCF83I was very privileged to work for 13 years in Torfaen & Blaenau Gwent MIND as the Counselling Service Manager / Counsellor / HG Therapist and have extensive experience in counselling people in emotional distress.
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The APET™ model: standing cognitive therapy on its head
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell describe a biologically-based theory which explains the shortcomings of purely cognitive approaches and why effective therapies can work fast.
Humanity under stress: a survival strategy
The governing organisations of the world seem all at sea. They are missing an essential element: that of the psychology of human nature, which is programmed into us from our genes (the human 'givens').
Practising ethically
The HGI Ethics and Complaints Committee considers some of the ethical challenges that human givens practitioners may face. Ian Thomson sets the scene.
Sue Gray
When someone's daily life becomes bogged down by a personal difficulty, and they often cannot find a way through it for themselves, they can suffer from distressing feelings of insecurity and loss of control. Human givens psychotherapy aims to restore that control in the shortest time possible by working with effective tools and modern knowledge to resolve most difficulties, whether expressed as trauma, anxiety, phobia, depression, addiction, or other obstacles to well-being.
Why psychiatrists should be more like plumbers
Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how the human givens approach can best help severely distressed people.
20 years of the human givens
We take a look at what's been achieved since two pioneering psychotherapists put a name to this powerful understanding of human nature and mental health...
Mind Sculpture: "This trembling web"
Joe Griffin talks with Professor Ian Robertson about the role of experience in the sculpting of our brains, and why certain types of counselling may do harm.
The wrong write stuff?
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HG at the Virtual Trauma Recovery Summit 2021
Human Givens therapist and tutor, Ros Townsend, has been invited to join an internationally recognised panel of speakers at the Trauma Recovery Summit which takes place from June 21-23 this year.
Further exposure of the mismanagement of antidepressant withdrawal
This update on Marion Brown's work to highlight the often tragic effects of withdrawal from prescription medicines was first shared in the April 2021 issue of the HG Newsletter.