Dorothy Baird Therapy4Change

Currie Edinburgh EH14 5NZ View map	Edinburgh Centre Of Nutrition And Therapy 11 Home Street Tollcross Edinburgh EH3 9JR View map
0131 449 3265 / 07906 829 545 www.therapy4change.org Click here to Email me

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Working out of the Human Givens approach, I am able to offer fast and effective help for a wide variety of problems including depression, stress, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma including PTSD, abuse, addictions including eating disorders, alcohol and smoking, low confidence and self esteem, phobias, and anger management.

I also offer help for mothers or fathers affected by traumatic childbirth and for individuals with parenting issues. For more detailed information on the Human Givens approach see the HG Insitute's website: www.hgi.org.uk or my own website: www.therapy4change.org )

I have experience working with veterans suffering from PTSD and am trained in a refinement of EMDR, which works quickly to relieve even long standing trauma.

Human Givens therapy draws on the latest neurological research to explain what is going on in your brain/body/emotions to create distress. Most people find the resulting explanations both reassuring and empowering. More importantly, the therapy offers a wide variety of therapeutic techniques chosen to suit each individual and their situation and to ensure change and recovery happen quickly.

I always work to help people in as few sessions as possible. On average, significant improvement is achieved in around 4 sessions.

I find working out of the Human Givens approach extremely rewarding: it is a real privilege to witness people quickly regain their health, mental peace and confidence.

I have a private practice at home in Currie (a straightforward 20 minute bus route from town, and where there is also easy parking). I also rent rooms at the Edinburgh Centre for Nutrition and Therapy at Tollcross and at the Salisbury Centre, Salisbury Road, just down from the Commonwealth Pool. When you contact me to make an appointment we can discuss which place best suits your needs.

Please have a look at the Human Givens website www.hgi.org.uk for more information about the approach, and/or my website www.therapy4change.org where you will also find testimonials.

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Human Givens Therapy

Human Givens therapy centres around the organising idea that we all have needs that we have to get met for us to function well. To help us get these needs met, we have various resources, including long term memory, empathy, problem solving abilities, imagination, and the ability to see things objectively and rationally. Taken together, these are the 'Human Givens'.

When our needs are met in balance and we are using our resources appropriately, we feel well.

Sometimes that balance shifts. For example, life becomes stressful and in an attempt to cope, we stop doing the very things that previously gave our life meaning and satisfaction and we stop getting our needs met properly as a result. Or we start to misuse our resources. For example, we continually imagine bad things happening and become stressed and anxious with the worry. This catastrophising is a sign that we're misusing our imagination.

Removing blocks to our resources, whether they arise from stuck patterns, trauma, or overworrying, and finding different, more appropriate ways to get our needs met, ensures the return to health. HG therapy helps to give you tools so you can take control of your life again.

Depression
Human Givens therapy has carried out research into what depression is - research that is now being backed up by more recent findings. It offers an explanation of the links between worry and anxiety, REM sleep and depresson that most people find tremendously reassuring and empowering. More importantly, based on that understanding, it enables even longstanding depression to be lifted quickly.

Trauma and Phobia
Sometimes, trauma or phobia is interfering with the way our brain works so that we aren't able to use our resources properly. Although these are very different issues, they arise from a similar working of the brain and the HG approach can quickly and safely resolve them. The technique, known as the 'rewind', is a refinement of the technique successfully used on children after Dunblane. It is straightforward, easy to understand and enables your brain to recode the experiences in a way that allows them to be remembered with a neutral emotional response.

I have seen at first hand on many occasions how the rewind can quickly resolve even long standing experiences. Trauma can be resolved without you telling me the details of the event. This can be a relief to people who don't want to talk about it any more but just want the distressing effects of the experience to go away.

Do get in touch if you'd like to make an appointment or if you'd like more information about the therapy and/or how I can help you. I'm very happy to talk it through with you.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

HG Dip P
MHGI (Member of the Human Givens Institute).
Cosca Cert Counselling Skills
PGCE
BA Hons

Areas of counselling I deal with

Therapies Offered

Other Therapies

Integrative

Fees

Sessions are around 90 minutes long and cost £45 in Currie and £55 in town (where room charges apply).

I am able to offer some concessions in cases of financial difficulty.

Most people find only relatively few sessions are required. These can be arranged at intervals to suit each individual situation.

Further Information

I am also a published poet and run creative writing workshops in mental health settings and in the community. I have co-facilitated a women's group for 17 years and have three children, now in their late teens and early twenties.

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