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Free Mental Health Resources

Explore a huge range of free mental health resources – including e-books, fascinating podcasts, webinars, articles, interviews, our Uplift depression app, and more ...

Article

If the doors and windows are locked, try the keyhole

HG therapist Martin Dunne describes his work with a young woman with anorexia ...

Anger

8 essential tips for managing anger

Discover practical strategies to defuse this powerful emotion ...

Depression

What makes the human givens counselling approach so different

Discover how the human givens approach is helping people live mentally healthy lives.

Sleep

Self-compassion enhances sleep

Over two-thirds of university students fail to get sufficient quality sleep, according to self-reports, with knock-on negative effects on cognitive functioning and mental health.

Pain

How to use your imagination to manage pain

Imagination is incredibly powerful: discover how you can make it work for you when it comes to managing pain ...

Depression

5 Golden Rules for Setting Achievable Goals

Setting and achieving a goal can be an important step towards lifting depression ...

Trauma

The Rewind Technique: a powerful detraumatisation method that works

Learn more about the Rewind Technique - with Denise Winn

Anxiety

How to stop worrying

Learn practical strategies to help you stop worrying ...

Articles

Under-nourished: the key to working with restrictive eating

Russell McKenzie describes how he helps people struggling with restrictive eating and bulimia, using HG therapeutic techniques.

Mental Health

Our ‘pattern-matching organ’

This profound understanding of how our brains work helps us replace unhelpful patterns with empowering ones

Podcasts

Why antidepressants need to be understood

Marion Brown discusses the importance of understanding both the positive and negative effects of antidepressants and the difficulties people can have in withdrawing from them.

Podcasts

Learning and anxiety

Joanna Baker explains how she works with universities to embed good mental health practices at all levels of university life.

Podcasts

Couples Counselling - is it ever too late?

Couples therapist and tutor Jennifer Broadley, shares her knowledge and key insights about couples counselling on our 'ask the expert' podcast - listen and learn...

Podcasts

How untreated trauma can cast a shadow over your future

Join trauma expert Ros Townsend as she explores the effects of untreated trauma...

Podcasts

Supporting people through fertility treatment

Supporting people through fertility treatment can be difficult for all involved - during this podcast, our expert Sarah Denning (midwife and IVF counsellor) shares her valuable insights with you...

Podcasts

Human Givens and a flourishing society

In this episode we explore a range of important questions including - what is a society for? Why do we need a healthy society? How has a healthy society changed over time? How can the human givens approach help to create a flourishing society?

Podcasts

Tackling Mental Health In Sport

A fascinating and insightful discussion about sports psychology, performance psychology, behavioural science and more...

Podcasts

Supporting Ukrainian refugee women, living in crisis and uncertainty

On this truly inspiring podcast, Keri Hartwright describes the wellbeing initiatives she's developed using her HG knowledge and experience...

Podcasts

Is screen time impacting children's physical and mental health?

In this podcast Dr Aric Sigman discusses the physical, social and emotional impact of children's ever increasing screen time - and what we can do to improve their digital wellbeing

Podcasts

Why having a healthy mind AND body matters

Dr Andrew Morrice explains why, when it comes to looking after our health, a holistic approach – with common-sense, clarity and context – is key.

Podcasts

How can we help young children to be mentally healthy?

How can we best help children to live mentally healthy lives and what is the most appropriate way to talk to them about mental health? Family psychotherapist Miriam Chachamu shares her insights

Podcasts

How to make your private practice successful

Expert Jennifer Broadley, a Human Givens psychotherapist with two successful private practices in Aberdeen and Dundee, answers a wide range of questions sent in by other therapists, giving you plenty of tips and advice as she does so...

Podcasts

How to help teenagers flourish

How can we, as parents, carers, and professionals, help the teens in our lives to navigate these difficult years, to protect and improve their mental health and to thrive and flourish in today’s world?

Podcasts

How can the HG approach help teachers?

HG therapist and teacher, Pat Capel, explores how the HG approach can help teachers to look after students’ mental health and wellbeing – as well as protecting their own ...

Awareness Day

Anti-Bullying Week: Make A Noise About Bullying

Bullying can happen to anyone at any time - and its impact on an individual’s mental health can be devastating. One kind word leads to another... discover how you can play your part.

Awareness Day

Let's make student mental health a priority

Help university students improve their mental health and wellbeing with the human givens approach.

Awareness Day

Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy...

Depression can all too quickly spiral down into suicidal thoughts - but with the right knowledge it can often be lifted surprisingly easily – helping to reduce the risk of suicide

Awareness Day

Mental Health Awareness Week

Anxiety is physically and emotionally damaging but it can be managed very easily, when you know how...

Articles

Connect with nature

Nature connectedness is intrinsically good for our mental and physical health

Awareness Day

Children’s Mental Health Week

Discover how the HG approach can help improve the lives and wellbeing of children and young people ...

Awareness Day

Self-harm and self-injury awareness

Together we need to change the stigma around self-harm that stops children and adults seeking the help and support they need.

Awareness Day

Is an eating disorder a mental 'illness'?

It is important to remember, eating disorders are not all about food, they're about feelings too.

Awareness Day

Stress Awareness

Stress is a big part of everyday life - learn how to reduce your stress and anxiety levels by building relaxation into your daily life.

Awareness Day

Understanding depression is key to recovery...

The human givens approach to psychotherapy has enabled tens of thousands of people to overcome depression and to move forward again with their lives.

Articles

Why rejection may harm more popular adolescents for life

Social difficulties during adolescence can influence health negatively over a lifetime, according to emerging research, and a new study takes a step towards explaining why.

Articles

ADHD and creative genius

What did Thomas Edison, Kurt Cobain, Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron, Jules Verne, Che Guevara, James Dean, Clark Gable, Picasso, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Raleigh have in common?

Articles

Kindness to others reduces social anxiety

Discover how a little act of kindness to others can help reduce social anxiety - doing a small good deed for others naturally turns focus outward, leaving less room for obsessive self-reflection.

Articles

A review of The Pill That Steals Lives by Katinka Blackford Newman

~ From campaigner and retired HG therapist, Marion Brown

Articles

Eating disorders: an empowering new perspective

Martin Dunne explains how the organising idea of caetextia aids understanding and treatment of anorexia and atypical forms of it.

Articles

No-fault divorce: it’s about time

HG tutor and therapist, Jennifer Broadley, explores what the new "no-fault divorce" will mean for couples ...

Depression

A memory trick to help beat depression

Researchers come up with a novel way to help people with depression to recall positive, self-affirming memories ...

Articles

Meaningful Patterns

Recognising underlying patterns in things may contribute to a sense of meaningfulness in life, suggest psychologists from the University of Missouri ...

Articles

"To sleep ... perchance"

To help insomniacs improve their sleep, it may be more effective to expend most effort on "arousal-related behaviours" rather than on other aspects of "sleep hygiene" ...

Articles

Working creatively with psychosis

Martin had been resident for nearly two years in a medium-security ward (a Norwegian facility for people exhibiting psychotic symptoms and violent behaviour). As a result, staff had lost heart.

Articles

Happier after a nap

Having a 90-minute nap around lunchtime reduces sensitivity to negative emotions in the afternoon and, it seems, increases sensitivity to positive ones.

Awareness Day

World Kindness Day

On World Kindness Day participants attempt to make the world a better place by promoting good deeds and pledging acts of kindness.

Covid-19

FREE Human Givens ebook

Download your quick FREE guide to the approach that is revolutionising psychotherapy, mental health provision, education and much more.

Awareness Day

Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority...

At Human Givens we firmly believe that everyone should have access to clear, practical mental health support that works - to help you thrive.

Awareness Day

Men's Mental Health - Movember

Movember is on a mission to change the face of men’s health and we whole-heartedly support them in this cause.

Psychology Today

What Was Happening When It Started?

What Was Happening When It Started? - The key question in therapy.

Psychology Today

A Mental Toolkit for Navigating Depression

The human givens approach provides you with a powerful, lifesaving mental toolkit for navigating depression...

Psychology Today

We all need to connect with others

Social connection is vital - it improves our mental health and it can even help us live longer.

Psychology Today

What's really at the root of addiction

To effectively treat addiction, we must identify the unmet needs at its core.

Psychology Today

How We Know Human Givens Therapy Works

A recent study provides real-world evidence of its effectiveness

Psychology Today

When the Going Gets Tough, We Find Out Who Our Friends Are

When a close friend develops a severe or degenerative illness, knowing what to say and do can be hard...

Psychology Today

How You Can ‘Catch’ Depression

Depression can be contagious - we need to protect ourselves from 'catching' it.

Psychology Today

Getting Rid of Anxious Thinking

When we wish something about ourselves were different, we may unconsciously be keeping it the same, and embedding it deeper.

Psychology Today

Are You Guilty of Not Listening?

What can the Channel 4 programme "The Jury: Murder Trial" teach us about the importance of listening?

Psychology Today

Why Stories Help Us Heal From Anxiety and Depression

Stories help us heal because stories connect with the brain's right hemisphere.

Psychology Today

Watch Your Language

Language is powerful - used badly, language may fuel anxiety, depression and pain...

Psychology Today

Boredom Is Valuable

Boredom is valuable - it can lead to creativity or new understandings...

Psychology Today

What is most important to know about ADHD?

Whether ADHD is diagnosed or not, what counts is learning how best to manage symptoms that are troubling...

Psychology Today

Why We Dream

Many people are concerned by peculiar or scary dreams, wondering what they mean.

Psychology Today

Think You Can't Change Negative Behaviour?

When Suzanna was fully absorbed in something she loved, she had no need for anxiety - read Suzanna's story...

Psychology Today

Depression and high anxiety are context blind

Why depressed and anxious people can’t see context

Psychology Today

How to Win Despite Failing

Why learning from failure isn’t easy

Psychology Today

Unexpressed Anger Doesn’t Sit Inside Us

How to get rid of "bottled up" anger safely.

Psychology Today

Evoking positive memories is a powerful resource

Evoking Positive Memories Is a Powerful Resource - Why what you remember matters

Psychology Today

Can Eating More Fruit Reduce Depression?

Preventing depression – be careful what you believe

Psychology Today

You can’t make your kids have counselling

You can take your child to counselling but you can’t make them talk

Psychology Today

How to escape from acne anxiety

Don’t let anxiety about acne hold you back

Psychology Today

We don’t know what we think we know

Why most of us don’t really know what’s good for us

Psychology Today

Smouldering sibling resentment

When a sister relationship is smothering…

Psychology Today

Regrets Are Mostly Imagined

We don’t know how things would have turned out

Psychology Today

Effective Therapists Don't Just Listen

They must do a lot more than that ...

Psychology Today

Set a Goal in Therapy

It makes therapy far more likely to be effective.

Psychology Today

Psychosis Is Not Always What It Seems

For clinicians, curiosity is essential.

Psychology Today

Depressed or Anxious? Paying Attention Could Be the Key to Recovery

People dealing with depression or anxiety may not remember positive outcomes.

Psychology Today

What People Don’t Know About Antidepressants

Antidepressants: the hidden facts

Psychology Today

Depression: it’s not about what’s wrong with you …

Why depression isn’t what you think

Psychology Today

How to Tell When Therapy Is Safe and Effective

Why therapy should never make you feel bad

Psychology Today

When depression feels too big

Depression: when a little difference makes a big one

Psychology Today

Eating disorders need not be chronic ‘illnesses’

How to stop eating disorders from becoming chronic illnesses

Psychology Today

People become alcoholics for a reason

Alcoholism is never a disease

Psychology Today

What Lifts Depression Fast?

Why understanding it is key to recovery

Psychology Today

What drug companies don’t tell you

What the pharmaceutical industry keeps secret

Psychology Today

When a loved one is at risk of suicide

When information sharing can save a life

Psychology Today

Just Keep Going

When the going gets tough, keep going.

Covid-19

Free Webinar: Learning and Wellbeing during the Coronavirus Pandemic

If you live or work with students – or are one yourself – take a listen to HG therapist, tutor and student wellbeing expert Gareth Hughes’ helpful webinar. It’s jam-packed with practical information and advice.

Covid-19

Lockdown, open up

How can we find, through adversity, new ways to get our needs met and help others do the same? How can we utilise this unwarranted change in our lives to good effect, such that we come out of it stronger, more united, better?

Covid-19

Using our innate resources wisely during the pandemic

Nature has equipped the majority of us, from birth, with the innate resources to help us get our physical and emotional needs met in healthy balance. Developing insight into what can prevent this happening and using our resources – our gifts – can help us reach out to others in distress and help them.

Covid-19

Meeting emotional needs while combating Covid-19

Our mental – and physical – health depends upon meeting our emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune system to fight back and work to promote recovery from illness. 

Covid-19

Is your wellbeing being affected by self-isolation?

Human Givens therapist and trainer Emily Gajewski looks at our 9 emotional needs and how the Covid-19 lockdown may be impacting on our wellbeing. She also suggests some simple things we can do that help.

Psychology Today

Why You Don't Always Have to Believe Psychological Research

Just try it out and see.

Psychology Today

Anxiety Disorder? Clinical Depression?

Or fearful, bullied, or lost?

Psychology Today

The Key to Relationships

You need more than just one big one.

Psychology Today

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Depression

The evidence for “evidence-based therapy” may not be as solid as you’d think.

Psychology Today

How to Stay Mentally Strong in Lockdown

Making the best use of your resources

Psychology Today

Our Social Identities

We can use them against depression and anxiety.

Psychology Today

Plagued by Persistent Pain or Depression

Or just not following your dreams?

Psychology Today

When Anxiety Just Falls Away

It can be what you don’t do that counts.

Psychology Today

How to Reduce High Anxiety Now

It will make you safer when combating coronavirus.

Psychology Today

Self-Harming: We All Do It

When stress becomes overwhelming, acts of self-harm may tip into self-injury.

Psychology Today

Depression Is a Trance State

It has to be broken.

Psychology Today

How to Listen and What to Say

A simple way to show caring.

Psychology Today

Getting Over the Trauma of COVID-19

We can do it with the right approach.

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