Over the past 5 years, I have had many dealing with mental health services, both professionally and personally, and in both public and private sectors. And what I noticed is, the majority of practitioners I worked with, observed, or heard about, were applying similar techniques for everyone, even though some of their clients were struggling to grasp what the therapists were getting across.

Let me give you some examples.

CBT therapy. Works for many people. Distraction technique. Mindfulness. EXCEPT for Projectors who have a sound board authority. These are people who need to talk. And talk. And talk. I once observed a sound board projector ring every single helpline they could, and many couldn’t keep up with how much they wanted to talk! And this held back their progress. They were trying to give them things to ‘do',’ but as a sound board projector they needed things to TALK about instead. This is how they land at the clarity they need to be able to process something. This talking is how they take themselves out of a thought spiral. CBT and tactics like ‘keeping busy and distracted’ in a crisis are actually not helpful for these people, and can cause more of a spiral. I’ve seen it myself, with my own eyes. Brilliant tactic for a Generator, terrible tactic for a Projector or an individual with a defined head. They are much better with communication, mind games, puzzles, thought based problem solving and interaction. Imagine if you knew that straight away…

EMDR. You need to have some feeling behind the therapy to be able to process it, and this can look very different to two different types of people. Emotional authorities will have absolutely no problem with EMDR, and will fly through a course of treatment pretty quickly. Why? They have a strong connection with their emotions. They can recall them, feel them, all the time. But a non-emotional? They don’t recall emotion in that way. They need a prompt. Music, film, visuals. Imagine if you could just look at a clients chart straight away and know which course of action, and how many sessions they’re more likely to have, just by looking at a simple chart. How much more helpful that would be.

Talk therapy. For 70% of people, going to be super helpful. Constant access to their voice, know what they are going to say, even if it’s the confidence to say nothing. But the other 30%? They have undefined throats. They can’t always find the words. The pressure of talk therapy can make them worse, doubt themselves more, or put so much pressure on their voice that they end up ill. They might be more aligned to art therapy, or drama therapy, for example, or bringing in more creative solutions to sessions to be able to express themselves. Imagine if you had the instant knowing that that would suit them best, straight away?

Imagine having this clarity in a session before you even meet someone.

Imagine being able to see someone so clearly, that they leave that first session feeling more seen than they have in years, and you’ve only met them for 50 minutes.

Imagine the GROWTH available to that person, once they’re fully seen and fully understood. They process not just that they’re different to other people, but WHY and HOW they’re different. How empowering that is.

This is what Human Design can bring to your practice.

Piercing clarity, focus and direction to be able to tailor a session completely to that individual, already knowing their strengths and vulnerabilities, and helping them to discover them too.

This is what this training is all about.