Sessions with a Therapist

If you would like to speak to your therapist before the first session, all therapists at the centre offer an initial phone call. However, some clients prefer to wait until their first session and talk then.

We recommend an initial 90 minute session, after this you can agree together both the length of the next session (60 or 90 minutes) and how long is needed until the next appointment (if required).

The aim of the therapy is to help you move on in your life as quickly and as effectively as possible, this is why we don’t ask you to sign up for a set number of sessions.

The human givens approach is fluid and flexible, allowing your therapist to use the techniques and approach that are best suited to your needs, whilst using the human givens guiding framework to help you in as fewer sessions as possible.

What can you expect from working with us?

All of us work with the same approach and we will:

• Ensure that you start to feel better immediately – we don't believe you have to feel worse before you can feel better

• Offer practical techniques to deal with mental and emotional distress

• Use knowledge from your past to help you move on, rather than dwelling on it endlessly

• Deal swiftly with trauma from the past using a technique that avoids your having to speak of all the details

• Teach you how to relax so that you can deal better with life's challenges

• Give you useful information about the neurology and biology of your difficulty, should it be helpful

• Help you identify areas where your needs are not being well met and why this is so important for your emotional wellbeing

• Work out realistic and achievable goals for you

• Agree on the best strategies for you to use

• Help you to use and develop your own resources

• Help you to develop valuable life skills which will enable you to make changes and move on

Confidentiality-

Complete confidentiality will be maintained at all times unless there is significant risk of harm to yourself or others.