My Approach
I offer positive, practical, solution-focused help with emotional distress, in the here and now.
Sessions with me involve thoughtful cognitive therapy, guided imagery and visualisation, practical ideas and solutions, and co-creating strategies for change. My approach has a strong, positive coaching dimension, and I am also BWRT trained.
We won’t dwell too long on the past or focus only on your distress. I want to help you feel better and able to move forward in your life as quickly as possible.
What is Human Givens therapy?
Central to Human Givens therapy is the idea that all human beings have a clear set of emotional needs, including the need for security, intimacy, social connection, choices in our lives, self-esteem, meaning and purpose.
Another ‘given’ is that every one us has a set of innate resources to help us meet these needs. These include being able to empathise and connect with other people, learn, problem-solve and use our imagination to picture how things might be different.
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These essential human needs and resources are what ‘make us tick’. And when our emotional needs are not being met in balance, or our resources not used properly, that’s when we suffer emotional distress.
The Human Givens approach helps us to see, quickly, where someone’s life isn’t working well. It focuses on allowing clients to identify precisely where their essential emotional needs aren’t being met, and helps them get those needs met by using their own inner resources in new ways.
Human Givens therapy is brief and effective solution-focussed therapy, and is the first truly bio-psycho-social model of psychotherapy. Many clients experience positive change from the very first session, and most need somewhere between 5 and 8 sessions in total.
Sessions involve psychological interventions including brief solution-focused therapy, relaxation and guided imagery, as well as identifying practical solutions and co-creating strategies for change.
The Human Givens Institute is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care.
To learn more, visit www.hgi.org.uk
