Inga Springell

29/06/2025

HOPELINE247 will always be a safe space for LGBTQ+ people to open up about your thoughts of su***de and get support. 💜

Call 0800 068 4141, text HOPE to 88247 or email pat@papyrus-uk.org. We're here to support you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

27/06/2025

The human givens approach to psychotherapy and counselling helps people feel better and move on in their lives as quickly as possible. At its heart is the understanding that, when a human being’s essential emotional needs are met well and their innate mental resources are used empoweringly, they will be emotionally and mentally healthy.

What makes this approach different from others is that its therapists look to see what is missing in clients’ lives, with the aim of helping them find ways to better meet their needs and get their lives working again.

It is a practical, forward-focused approach, which concentrates on mastery of skills and understandings that people can use to move on in their lives, instead of focusing on what went wrong in the past.

Research findings show that it leads to significant improvement, usually in between one and six sessions.

Clients also gain greater resilience against future setbacks, as they understand what maintains emotional health and have practical ways in which to do so.

Visit our accredited therapist register to find your nearest HG therapist: https://www.hgi.org.uk/find-therapist

Discover more about the HG approach: https://www.humangivens.com/human-givens/about/

18/12/2024

17/12/2024

My practise is now closed until the 6th of January for a well earned holiday. If you need support please see the agencies listed below. There are some amazing practitioners covering the Christmas holidays so please do reach out if you need to.

13/09/2024

Many unmet needs contribute to su***de; however, a key need, which, when fulfilled, can help to protect us from suicidal thoughts, is the need for meaning and purpose.

Find out more: https://www.humangivens.com/human-givens/about/what-are-the-human-givens/

18/06/2024

An article in the Sunday Telegraph, 16th June 2024, reported how Major Wayne Owers, a decorated Afghanistan veteran and a distinguished 27-year career in the Army, rose through the ranks to become a highly respected bomb disposal officer, earning three prestigious honours from the Queen. However,his journey took an unexpected turn when he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), leading to a prescription for antidepressants and a medical discharge that left him feeling discarded and lost.

After just six sessions of free human givens therapy provided via a referral from charity, PTSD Resolution, Major Owers reported a remarkable change in his life.

“I’ve now had six sessions and my life has been transformed. I can honestly say the treatment is revolutionary. My nightmares are subsiding. My OCD has diminished hugely and I no longer get anxious.

“I want to get the message out there and tell any veterans or their dependents who still have PTSD to get in touch with PTSD Resolution. They offer free therapy and it has changed my life and many others’ more,” he says. “For the first time in years, I feel happy and contented, like a huge weight has been lifted.”

Find out more:

20/05/2024

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13/05/2024

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27/04/2024

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18/04/2024

This is what human givens therapy is all about.
It is skills based.
It is a craft.
Helping you feel better as quickly as possible.

Find out more by visiting https://www.humangivens.com/human-givens/human-givens-therapy/how-human-givens-helps/

09/04/2024

Episode 177 is out now!

Joe Griffin is a psychologist and co-founder of the Human Givens approach.

Human Givens’ is a practical, holistic and scientific approach to therapy that focuses on what individuals need to live mentally healthy and fulfilling lives.

It draws on the latest insights from neuroscience and psychological research, and combines this knowledge with proven therapeutic techniques from a wide range of approaches to provide highly effective interventions.

Joe has many years of experience in both psychotherapeutic practice and in training psychotherapists and in this episode, I chat to him about how he started working in this field and how this work led to the creation of Human Givens.

At the core of the Human Givens framework is the idea that all humans have a set of 9 emotional needs and when these needs aren’t met, it can lead to mental ill health.

Joe and I chat about the 9 emotional needs, what they are and what gets in the way of these needs being met.

We chat about the cycle of depression, the role of metaphor and storytelling in the healing process and about how sleep ties all this together.

This episode is filled with actionable ideas and gave me so much to think about! Joe was incredible to chat to and a lot of fun too, it really was a privilege to chat to him and this is definitely one of my favourite episodes to date!

Out now on all podcast platforms!