Ask The Expert A Human Givens Podcast Series

On this podcast we asked Sue Saunders 'what does a positive friendship look like?' As Director of Education for Human Givens College, Sue teaches numerous courses for us including the new diploma-linked course: 'Improving Relationships – at work, at home and in the community'.  For details visit: https://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/improving_relationships.html On this valuable course, you will discover why all relationships from siblings, work colleagues and couples, to neighbours, social groups and friendships are important to our emotional wellbeing – and how you can create, build and maintain positive relationships. ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing from the point of view of their particular area of expertise. Each podcast will discuss a different important mental health topic, both ones we feel should be openly discussed, and those in

Emily Gajewski is our self-harm expert - she has worked for over 24 years as a therapist, both within the NHS and privately, helping people move on from even the most severe emotional difficulties, and she has a wealth of experience at helping people move on from self-harm. Most recently Emily was employed as a Lead Occupational Therapist in Sussex where she developed a number of mental health services, working with a wide range of emotional difficulties including psychosis and self-harm. Emily is also a registered Human Givens Practitioner and teaches the ‘Overcoming Self-Harm’ 1-day workshop for Human Givens College (see: https://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/self-harm.html) ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing from the point of view of their particular area of expertise. Each podcast will discuss a different important mental health topic, both

Miriam is a family psychotherapist and a human givens practitioner, with many years experience. She has helped numerous children, families and professionals understand and overcome behavioural and mental health problems, and now provides workshops and courses to parents who wish to help their children and adolescents become their best. This podcast includes tips and techniques for achieving good mental wellbeing and family relationships plus how to help children who have a low self-esteem or suffer from anxiety. To access the references mentioned in this episode, click here: https://www.hgi.org.uk/resources/podcasts/how-can-we-improve-childrens-difficult-behaviour For details of Miriam's courses see: https://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/managing-childrens-behaviour.html https://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/OCD-course.html ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and

Marion Brown was a human givens psychotherapist in private practice for 7 years and through her work, became very concerned about the many difficult experiences she could see people were having with antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications and sedatives taken as prescribed - often with difficult side effects and withdrawal problems. Marion now shares what she has learnt, to help therapists and people struggling with those complex issues - and she works tirelessly to increase awareness of them… To access the references mentioned in this episode, click here: https://www.hgi.org.uk/resources/podcasts/why-antidepressants-need-be-understood For more information about depression, see: https://www.hgi.org.uk/useful-info/what-depression-%E2%80%93-and-how-deal-it ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing from the point of view of their particular area of exper

We were honoured that Chris Dyas, Children’s Social Worker of the Year (2018), kindly took time out of his busy workload to join us for our second podcast: 'Why every childhood is worth fighting for'. One of the first people to take the Human Givens Diploma, Chris uses the approach in his work for the NSPCC, where he supports children who have been sexually abused. On his lively podcast he talks about the success of his HG-inspired 'Single Opportunity Counselling' training, which is rapidly being adopted by different agencies, and shares important insights from his extensive experience about how to improve children's mental health, how best to help distressed children, self-harm, the pressures children are under today, keeping children safe, building self-worth and much more... ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing from the point of view of their part

We are delighted to have Lee Pycroft as our first expert. Lee is a very highly regarded makeup artist and a human givens therapist. During the podcast, Lee talks to Julia Welstead about the importance of self-care, self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and the things she has done to help her clients achieve this. ========= Welcome to the human givens ‘Ask The Expert’ podcast series! Our new podcasts give you the opportunity to hear human givens professionals discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing from the point of view of their particular area of expertise. Each podcast will discuss a different important mental health topic, both ones we feel should be openly discussed, and those in which our listeners have expressed an interest, in an effort to share and promote more widely effective tips and knowledge about emotional health and wellbeing. ========= FIND OUT MORE Human Givens Diploma: https://www.humangivenscollege.com/diploma/index.html 'Ask The Expert' Podcast: https://www.hgi.org.uk/resources/