Diploma Course
Study with us at a time and place that suits you – choose from a range of subjects: anxiety, stress, anger, trauma, depression, effective counselling, hypnosis, helping students and more...
The Human Givens Diploma is a highly practical psychotherapy course that has been revolutionising the successful treatment, understanding and prevention of the mental and emotional health issues that affect all human beings for more than 20 years.
- HG is the only form of psychotherapy to unify 100s of counselling models into one common language – view benefits of the approach
- A highly effective alternative to drug treatments
- Typically gets faster results in 1–2 sessions instead of the average 4 [1]
- People come from all over the world to take the Diploma course
- The knowledge and skills you will gain are widely applicable and students often say they have benefitted personally too
All Human Givens Therapists on our Professional Register, which is accredited in the UK by the Professional Standards Authority (which is the same organisation that accredits BACP and the UKCP) have completed the Diploma up to Part 3 level. Become an HG therapist >
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The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
Treating schizophrenia without drugs
Treatmenta for schizophrenia that involve no drugs, or only low doses of them, urgently need investigation, suggests Dr Tim Calton, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, and colleagues.
The Century of the Self
Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.
The carrot and the stick
Mark Evans describes how working imaginatively with rewards and punishments has helped his clients achieve very swift change
Aspects of good practice
Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why the human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in a handful sessions — or fewer.
When depression may be catching
People who are vulnerable to depression tend to generate interpretations of stressful life events and low moods that have negative implications for their future and for their self-worth.
Give your 2019 resolutions a positive spin
How’s your New Year resolve bearing up? What went through your mind as the bells rang in 2019? Julia Welstead discusses how reframing, visualising and rehearsing your own success are often the keys to achieving what you want, and to making your New Year resolution a permanent behaviour pattern in your life...
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The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity...
Exploring the CULT in culture
Looking at cult behaviour. A revised version (including additional material) of an article by Ivan Tyrrell, first published in 1993, that explores Dr Arthur Deikman's enlightening work on cult behaviour.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
Many online articles now advocate breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels, but we have noticed...
The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
Meeting emotional needs whilst socially isolating or working from home
Our mental and physical health depend upon meeting emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune syst
Where the rainbow ends - the collapse of civilization?
Ivan Tyrrell talks to Anne Glyn-Jones author of "Holding up a Mirror" about the dynamics of history that eventually lead to the destruction of security, prosperity and artistic achievement.
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.
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2024 Conference
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