BRISTOL HYPNOTHERAPY CLINIC
Courses
Depression
Depression has gone from being one of the least to one of the most understood of
the many emotional disorders. It can effect any one of both sexes and at any age,
has many causes, and as a result has many viable avenues of treatment. Mildly and
severely depressed client’s find themselves in situations that are enormously painful
and who need help to find a way out. It can effect you physically, causing problems
such as eating, sleep disturbance, a lowered sex drive, fatigue and anxiety. Cognitively,
depression can effect your ability to think clearly, making it difficult to focus
attention, poor memory, causing someone depressed to make errors in judgement and
decision making.
If they think about the future, they tend to project into the future the same kind
of pain, hurt and anxiety suffered in the past, the vicious circle and downward spiral.
At the Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic the therapy for depression is cognitive behavioural
therapy (CBT) and interpersonal approaches. Utilizing CBT within hypnosis show greater
therapeutic outcomes than drug therapy. Although medication may have some effectiveness
, it has distinctively more side effects and habituation. They can also produce undesired
thought and feeling processes, which can prevent new learning abilities. Anti-depressant
agents have been found to have a high incidence of relapse.
CBT provides and creates skill building, problem solving, goal achieving skills and
a greater degree of empowerment and perception. These are things an anti-depressant
agent cannot accomplish. Relapse rate is significantly reduced, as these techniques
provide effective preventative skills. Clinical hypnosis with CBT, creates effectiveness
of unique specific positive changes to take place in the depressed individual. People
that have been depressed for a long time, sometimes from their childhood, usually
have difficulty being positive on a day to day basis. By using the extraordinary
resources of the unconscious mind, one has the ability to make choices, that will
bring about the kind of things that you want to have happen tomorrow, and in the
future, which leads you to think differently, act differently, and eventually feel
differently.
CBT is well established in treating depression, incorporated with hypnosis provides
positive outcomes within the brief therapy framework. Virtually all CBT sessions
are recorded onto a CD for the client to play during the week between sessions. Self-help
assignments are provided, so the client can obtain a better approach and experiment
with behaviors. My aim is, to teach the individual to become their own therapist.
For further information on depression
go to my depression-therapist site
Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic in residence at the
Greenway Community Practice, Greystoke Ave, Southmead, Bristol BS10 6AF
Tel: 0117-968-6886, Mobile: 07811-373703,
International 44117-968-6886 USA Cell phone 248.635.3726
