Human Givens Counselling
Human Givens is the newest and most radical school of psychotherapy in forty years. It offers an understanding of the origin of most mental distress and the confidence to work with many tools and methods for quick and sustaining relief.
- Depressions can be lifted quickly.
- Anxieties, phobias and trauma can be completely resolved.
- Anger can understood, managed and cleared quickly.
- Addictions (drugs, nicotine, alcohol, gambling, sex) can be overcome.
- Relationships with partners and family members can be helped.
- Compulsive behaviours – sexual, addictive and others - even though inexplicable can be removed.
- Low self esteem, self confidence and hope can be restored.
- Lives can be transformed.
"A revolutionary new organising idea derived from the latest scientific understandings from neurobiology and psychology, ancient wisdom and original new insights"
The Human Givens Organising Idea
 Humans are born with needs and resources to get these needs met. When these needs are matched up in the environment in a balanced way then individuals (and societies) are emotionally healthy. If resources are misused, damaged or overwhelmed by circumstances such that needs are not met, then there will mental distress.
 The distress can take a number of forms – anxiety disorders, depression, phobias, addictions, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, eating disorders, and psychosis. The detail of the distress and the specific ‘tools’ used to aid recovery are actually secondary.
The key is that mental distress is not an illness of the brain.
Ivan Tyrell and Joe Griffin, the founders of the Human Givens.
Essential Human Needs
- Feeling safe.
- Having people who are important to you and to whom you are important.
- Having wider connections beyond your family and close friends.
- A sense of autonomy and control.
- Comfortable with your status in society and with your peers.
- A sense of competence and achievement.
- Getting your attention needs met - both giving and receiving.
- A place for privacy and reflection.
- Being stretched by how you live or the work that you do.
Innate Resources - To get needs met
- Complex long term memory, which enables us to add to our innate knowledge and learn.
- The ability to build rapport, empathise and connect with others.
- Imagination, which enables us to focus our attention away from our emotions and so solve problems which get our needs met.
- A conscious, rational mind that can question, analyse and plan.
- The ability to "know", to understand the world intuitively through metaphorical pattern matching.
- An observing self - the part of us that can step back and be aware of itself as a unique centre of awareness.
- A dreaming brain that preserves the integrity of our emotional inheritance by metaphorically defusing expectations every night that were not acted out the previous day.
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Accredited by the Human Givens Institute
Counselling in East London Convenient for:
East London: South Woodford, London E18, Wanstead, Snaresbrook, Leytonstone, London E11, Leyton, London E10, Walthamstow, London E17, Chingford, London E4, Bethnal Green, London E2, Stratford, London E15, Hackney, London E8, Bow, London E3, Clapton, London E5, Forest Gate, London E7, Mile End, London E1 and the City, London EC2
Essex: Woodford, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Epping, Ilford, Barking, Hainault, Romford, Goodmayes, Chadwell Heath, Upminster
Hertfordshire: Barnet, Enfield, Cheshunt
North London: Edmonton, London N9, Crouch End, London N8, Tottenham, London N15, Islington, London N1
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"Thank you so much for helping my daughter to get her life back. The Human Givens approach came highly recommended to me and i will certainly recommend it to others."<--more-->
I want to thank you for the work you did with Anna. The sessions have been so very helpful and have allowed her to emerge from a very dark place. I speak to Anna very regularly and I am amazed at how much her outlook has changed in such a short time. She has mended her friendships and is talking positively about her future. Clearly she still has a way to go but the strategies you have helped her develop are enabling her to find positive ways forward. Thank you so much for helping my daughter to get her life back. The Human Givens approach came highly recommended to me and i will certainly recommend it to others.
"I have heard about the Human Givens approach and wanted to know more. I experience a seemingly simple combination of hypnotherapy, storytelling and conversation which calmed me, helped me to take my needs more seriously, helped me draw on my resources to that end and gave me new insights into my situation."
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I am a counsellor, trained in Integrative Psychosynthesis - an approach that has helped me enormously. I have spent some years in personal therapy, and no longer feel the need for on-going support. I have been to see Andrew a handful of times - seeking help in moments of crisis. My interest was partly professional, partly personal. I have heard about the Human Givens approach and wanted to know more. I experienced a seemingly simple combination of hypnotherapy, storytelling and conversation which calmed me, helped me take my needs more seriously, helped me draw on my resources to that end, and gave me new insights into my situation.
"I was lucky enough to find Andrew, who helped in only 2 session to feel relax, happy and optimistic." <--more from Claudia-->
When I decided to learn more about the Human Givens approach from the US, Andrew was available via Skype. I had heard about Human Givens approach and was curious to try it. I live in Mexico so I start looking for someone who was willing to give me therapy by SKYPE. After a few months of unsuccessful fertility treatment I started feeling exhausted, could not sleep at night and felt uneasy all the time. I was lucky enough to find Andrew, who helped in only 2 session to feel relax, happy and optimistic. We did relaxation and trance by SKYPE also and Andrew could clear all kinds of worries that I had – mainly to do with my work which he found had developed from my past. I am a psychologist who had tried many different types of therapies both for me and my patients and I never experience something so effective and fast! Thanks Andrew for your generosity.
"I can't recommend Andrew highly enough." <--more from Kay-->
Andrew stopped me in my tracks before I got too upset, which was a huge relief... He relaxed me and used the rewind technique to quickly remove the feelings of trauma which had burdened me for so many years. He then went on to help me see ways in which I could take back control of my future and improve my relationships. I went out of that first session feeling that a weight had been lifted from my shoulders, and able to imagine a bright future again. I can't recommend Andrew highly enough.
"After four sessions I was officially not depressed. It's been two months since the last session and progress continues." <--more from Sally-->
I had been depressed for a year, I couldn’t sleep well, I was anxious and over sensitive to pressure. I visited Andrew Richardson after reading ‘How to lift depression fast’ (the bestselling book by Ivan Tyrell and Jo Griffin, the founders of Human Givens). I learned how to relax and put a stop at the grey ideas rumination. I revisited some parts of my childhood and more recent years to understand fix things and release emotions. After four sessions I was officially not depressed. It's been two months since the last session and progress continues.
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Andrew Richardson
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East London Counselling and Therapy for:
- Depression
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- Trauma
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