Richard Cavaliero - Human Givens Psychotherapist
BSc. (Hons), HG.Dip, MHGI
45 Wine Street, Sligo. F91 XV4X
Call Me - 085 148 8019
I offer effective and practical help for people who are depressed, anxious, phobic, or suffering from stress, trauma, sleeplessness, bereavement, panic attacks, nightmares, abuse, bullying, anger disorders or relationship problems, using a wide range of therapeutic methods shown to be effective by evidence based research.
Human Givens therapy is effective because it draws on findings from psychology and neurobiology about how people really function, as well as international research studies that have established which counselling techniques are most effective.
The Human Givens approach to therapy has proved to be a fast, brief and extraordinarily effective way to improve the psychological state of people with problems; bringing down their emotional arousal, reframing and detraumatising their past, re-connecting them with the resources they already have so that they can get on with life.
The human givens approach is a set of organising ideas that provides a holistic, scientific framework for understanding the way that individuals and society work. This framework encompasses the latest scientific understandings from neurobiology and psychology, as well as ancient wisdom and original new insights.
I will work with you from the very first session, and in as few sessions as possible, to:
Help you relax
Reduce difficulties and stress in your life
Help you set some goals that are achievable and stress reducing
Aid you to take back control of your life
I aim to help people restore a healthy life, swiftly and independently.
I have been practicing for more than 20 years and I have previously trained in Body Psychotherapy and Neuro-linguistic Programming.
The Human Givens:
We are all born with innate knowledge programmed into us from our genes. Throughout life we experience this knowledge as feelings of physical and emotional need. They are the driving force that motivates us to become fully human and succeed in whatever environment we find ourselves in. It is because they are incorporated into our biology at conception that we call them 'human givens'.
People whose emotional needs are met in a balanced way do not suffer mental health problems. When psychotherapists pay attention to this they are at their most effective. In short, it is by meeting our physical and emotional needs that we survive and develop as individuals and a species.
Emotional needs include:
Security — safe territory and an environment which allows us to develop fully
Attention (to give and receive it) — a form of nutrition
Sense of autonomy and control — having volition to make responsible choices
Emotional intimacy — to know that at least one other person accepts us totally for who we are.
Feeling part of a wider community
Privacy — opportunity to reflect and consolidate experience
Sense of status within social groupings
Sense of competence and achievement
Meaning and purpose — which come from being stretched in what we do and think
Along with physical and emotional needs nature gave us guidance systems to help us meet them. We call these 'resources'.
The resources nature gave us to help us meet our needs include:
The ability to develop 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, use language and problem solve more creatively and objectively.
Emotions and instincts.
A conscious, rational mind that can check out our emotions, question, analyse and plan.
The ability to 'know' — that is, understand the world unconsciously through metaphorical pattern matching.
An observing self — the part of us that can step back, be more objective and be aware of itself as a unique centre of awareness, apart from intellect, emotion and conditioning.
A dreaming brain that preserves the integrity of our genetic inheritance every night by metaphorically defusing expectations held in the autonomic arousal system because they were not acted out the previous day.
It is such needs and tools together that make up the human givens, nature's genetic endowment to humanity.
See www.hgi.org.uk