Focused for Change

Human Givens is a pragmatic, scientifically informed approach which can be applied with creativity in various settings including; education, training, counselling, business and mediation. The Human Givens approach is at the forefront of modern, outcome-informed, psychotherapy and counselling.

By combining the researched evidence from a range of therapies, alongside evidence from neuroscience, and highly original organising ideas, a brief and effective therapeutic model has been created which has wide-ranging applicability.

Human Givens is “… an exciting new therapy bridging the long standing divide between the two disciplines of neurophysiology and psychology. Ultimately, neurologists and psychologists alike are agreed that the only long-term answer to the depression epidemic is to ensure that innate human needs are met.”

Emma Bayley BBC Focus Magazine, January 2008

"We all have basic emotional needs, such as the need for love, security, connection and control, and the self‐esteem which arises from feeling competent in different areas of our lives. We also have the innate resources to help us meet these needs including: memory, imagination, problem solving abilities, self‐awareness and a range of complementary thinking styles to employ in various different situations. It is these needs and resources together, which are built into our biology, that make up the human givens.

The Human Givens Model is “important original work of immense practical use; it has great relevance to all areas of life and could save [taxpayers] millions”

Dr Farouk Okhai, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Milton Keynes PCT (UK National Health Service Primary Care Trust)

When emotional needs are not met or when our resources are used incorrectly, we suffer consider able distress. And so do those around us.

Human givens therapists focus on helping clients identify unmet emotional needs and empowering them to meet these needs by activating their own natural resources in new ways. To do this they use a variety of up‐to‐date, proven, brief solution oriented techniques."