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Stuart Fyfe
United KingdomGlasgowScotlandI have spent more than 20 years working for charities, supporting service users with trauma, anxiety, addictions, homelessness and involvement in the criminal justice system.
Nicola Harrison
United KingdomHonitonDevonEX14Nicola is a Human Givens psychotherapist with a growing private practice in Devon.
Linda Harrison
United KingdomMilton KeynesEnglandUnited KingdomOlneyEnglandUnited KingdomSouth Northamptonshire DistrictEnglandAfter a successful career in financial services and a break to bring up my children (one of which has special needs) I chose to retrain as a Human Givens Therapist.
Vicki Frost
The Fold Therapy CentreUnited KingdomBransfordEnglandWR6Vicki is an open-minded and friendly therapist who aims to work with clients in as few sessions as possible.
Zanna St Quinton
Ptolemy HouseReading RoadUnited KingdomWallingfordOxfordshireOX10 9DNI am here to help when things feel challenging, overwhelming, you feel the need to make a change or perhaps just feel a little 'stuck'.
Emma Scott
United KingdomFelixstoweEnglandI have journeyed with individuals facing challenging circumstances for many years and am a qualified psychotherapist.
Louise Courtney
IrelandKilcockLouise has a BA (hons psychology) and MA from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from Edinburgh University.
Lynne Vardy
19A Blackhouse FarmBlackhouse RoadUnited KingdomHorshamWest SussexRH13 6HSAs a retired police officer, mother and currently employed as a secondary school mentor, I have extensive and varied experience.
Jenny Tipping
1 Priory WayUnited KingdomBurwell, LouthLincolnshireLN11 8PRJenny has a private practice in the village of Burwell where she offers face to face counselling.
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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.
Human givens in primary care
Community psychiatric nurse Liz Potts describes her experience as one of the few primary care professionals in Coventry using the human givens approach.
Why abstractions confuse people
Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.
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').
The importance of sleep and why we need it
We all take sleep for granted until we have problems with it and then we quickly remember how desirable a good night's sleep is.
‘Guilt sensitivity’: a possible part to play in OCD
People who find guilt feelings highly difficult to tolerate may be especially prone to the OCD-type behaviours of compulsive checking or checking rituals...
Working with psychosis — once a week
Emily Gajewski describes how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome the psychotic delusions that were keeping her trapped.
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...
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