6 Aug 2025 ● Human Givens College
Human Givens College: Practical Therapy Training That Works
Human Givens College has been providing training in the best ways to treat mental health and behavioural problems for over 25 years. Our tutors are experts in their field, and provide practical, evidence-based training in clear, jargon-free language.
We’re passionate about improving mental health – for everyone. If you’re looking for cost-effective, accredited CPD, interested for personal reasons or looking to change career, our practical, evidence-based mental health, counselling and psychotherapy training gives you the essential information and skills you need to help people more effectively. All trauma-informed, there’s lots to choose from – many also count towards a Diploma.
Courses with an asterisk (*) count towards the HG Diploma.
In-person training
1-day workshops
- Guided Imagery and visualisation for therapeutic change (Day 1) *
- Guided Imagery – essential techniques (Day 2)*
- How to lift depression – the practical skills you need *
- How to tell stories that heal *
- Stopping Addictions: effective treatment and recovery *
- How to control Chronic Anxiety *
- Overcoming Self-harm *
- Conflict Resolution *
2-day workshops
- The therapeutic power of language *
- The Rewind Technique: Working effectively with trauma (PTSD) and phobias *
Advanced CPD Training
Human Givens Diploma Training
Live Online Training
Many of our attended workshops are also run live online – click here to see what’s coming up soon.
1-day live online workshops (via Zoom)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Couples Therapy – a practical masterclass
- Effective Pain Management
- Moral Injury
- How to work effectively with Troubled Teenagers
- How to build a Successful Private Practice
- How to reduce suicide risk – the practical steps you need to know
- How to create healing stories for distressed children
- How to avoid burnout – Self-care for helping professionals
- Trauma: Patterns of the past
- Developing Self-Compassion
- Online and phone therapy training
- Understanding and treating anxiety in children and teens
- The Mind-Body Connection: Movement, Emotion and Calm
- The Mind-Body Connection: Food, Mood – and Sleep
Short live online webinars (via Zoom)
Online courses & webinars
Online courses
- How to make counselling more effective *
- Effective Brief Psychotherapy *
- How to reduce and overcome self-harm – Effective help for adolescents and adults
- From Stress to Psychosis: how to prevent mental illness *
- How to break the cycle of depression *
- Understanding anxiety & managing it without drugs *
- Treating Addictions: understanding and treating all types of addictive behaviours *
- Effective Anger Management *
- Good Practice: Ethics for the caring professions *
- Understanding Trauma – Effective treatment and recovery
- Grief and Bereavement – Understanding loss and the best ways to help
- A closer look at our innate resources
- Why do we dream? FREE
- Dreaming, day dreaming and creativity FREE
SPECIAL DEAL – Buy all 8 Diploma-linked courses and SAVE £254.40! *
Delving Deeper Series
Webinars
- Stress and Mental Health – what you need to know
- Is it possible to build resilience to stress? FREE
- The Uses and Abuses of Hypnosis
- How to reduce anxiety in students and young people
- How to support teenagers through the stress of starting university life
- How to become an even better therapist – in just 90 minutes!
- Learning and Wellbeing during the Coronavirus Pandemic FREE
If you’d like to ask anything about our training, call our friendly team on +44 (0)1323 811690 (9.00am–5.30pm GMT, Mon–Fri) or send us an email – we’re always happy to answer your questions.
Alternatively, you can take a look at our FAQs page.
