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What Are The Human Givens?
All forms of mental distress arise because, in one way or another, people’s physical or emotional needs are not being met. Our essential needs and our innate resources to help meet them – the ‘givens’ of human nature – are at the heart of the human givens approach…
What Is Human Givens Therapy?
About 20 years ago a group of psychologists and therapists set out to discover what works and what doesn’t in the wide and varied field of therapeutic models and diverse disciplines. They focused on what best helps relieve people from mental distress and especially those approaches that agreed with the emerging findings of neuroscience…
What to expect from a Human Givens therapist
What a Human Givens Therapist will do for you…
Why is the Human Givens approach different from other forms of psychotherapy or counselling?
What makes the human givens approach different from other therapy approaches is that its therapists look to see what is missing, or being misused in clients’ lives, with the aim of helping them find ways to better meet their needs. The Human Givens approach is fast, fluid and flexible, making use of whatever techniques and approaches will best suit a client all within its guiding framework.
What are our innate resources?
Along with physical and psychological needs nature gave us internal guidance systems to help us meet them. We call these ‘resources’ and they are…
What are our emotional needs in the Human Givens approach to mental health?
All forms of mental distress arise because, in one way or another, people’s physical or emotional needs are not being met. Human beings, like all organic beings, come into this world with a set of needs and we humans have a particular set of resources that help us meet our needs…