Transforming lives and communities with innovative and collaborative therapy, training and research.

Mission Strategies

To provide educational programs and continuing education for mental health professionals; to provide effective and efficient psychotherapy services; to provide program and management consultation services to businesses, organizations, and educational systems; and to provide research on the development of and approach to problems experienced by individuals, couples, families, and other human systems.

At HGI, we regard people as possessing the strengths and expertise to manage personal and professional lives in a healthy, productive manner. We work with people in respectful, cooperative partnerships to access natural resources and competencies and to develop ways to address their concerns and solve problems.  Training is based in collaborative learning in which participation and curiosity are encouraged and in which the trainee's expertise and ideas are respected.

Our commitments are to serve people, not the categories that they are boxed into.  We recognize the importance of these categories to help professionals communicate with each other; however, they are not equivalent to a person’s identity. We work with, and learn from, people who are often considered chronic treatment failures, resistant, multi-problem and difficult.  These clients/families are often blamed for their lack of success in treatment; however we believe the responsibility for success is shared with the professionals.  We believe that one reason therapy fails is because clients are expected to fit into the providers’ treatment approach, rather than visa versa.  People are valued and so are their ideas and experiences of problems, pain, suffering, change, solutions, successes and failures as issues of human relationships, language and understanding.  At HGI, we are determined to learn from our clients:  what they think they need; what they would like to accomplish; and, how we can best be of help.