Diploma Course

The Human Givens Diploma is a highly practical psychotherapy course that is revolutionising the successful treatment, understanding and prevention of the mental and emotional health issues that affect all human beings.

The only form of psychotherapy to unify over 160 counselling models into one common language – view benefits of the approach
A highly effective alternative to drug treatments
Faster results in 1–2 sessions instead of the average 4 [1]

All Human Givens Therapists on our Professional Register, which is accredited in the UK by the Professional Standards Authority (which also accredits BACP and the UKCP) have completed the Diploma up to Part 3 level.

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The carrot and the stick

Mark Evans describes how working imaginatively with rewards and punishments has helped his clients achieve very swift change
HG in Practice

Primary school teaching assistant and HG Diploma graduate, Kashfi Khan describes how she has applied the HG ideas in very practical ways, to the benefit of pupils, parents and teachers alike.
Some thoughts on corruption and servility

Ivan Tyrrell considers how the miasma of corruption we live in affects many aspects of our lives, often in subtle ways.
Good choices: autism and the human givens

Angela Austin describes how the human givens approach has informed her work to create an emotionally safe place where children with autism can learn.
The Social Brain

Denise Winn talks with Professor John Ratey about the brain as a social organ, and the need to be alert early to inept social skills.
The riddle of conditioned taste adversion

THE pain–pleasure recall principle also explains the well-known phenomenon of conditioned taste aversion, which has always presented a problem for classical conditioning.
Come fly with me (calmly)

Sian Withers shows how she makes very good use of the human givens approach thousands of feet up in the air.
Shining Bright Radio Interview

Listen to Brian Greene’s interview with Denise Winn (Human Givens College tutor and psychology journalist, editor and author) as they discuss how the human givens approach is used for successfully treating depression.

PTSD: why some techniques for treating it work so fast

In this article, Joe Griffin suggests that techniques which can yield immediate success, may share an underlying mechanism.

How to lift depression quickly and safely

Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why a human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in just a few sessions — or less.

The fast cure for phobia and trauma: evidence that it works

Counsellors who use it know that the 'rewind technique' is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy have tested it in research.

The uses and abuses of hypnosis

Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.

Only the Lonely

Julia Welstead on loneliness and the Human Givens approach

The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult

Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.