Depression is one of the most common mood disorders – affecting people not just in the UK but all across the world and is on the increase across all age groups. Depression is also one of the most treatable disorders, as long-term treatment and follow-up studies indicate. Our knowledge of depression has greatly improved in recent years and the specific use of hypnosis is now well recognised as playing an important part in the recovery from this mood disorder.

Drugs alone are not and can never be an entirely adequate reply to the growing rates of depression and as health professionals it is the role of trained professionals like myself to do a great deal to address this issue much more realistically than leading people to believe “a pill a day will keep the depression a day”.

I have undertaken additional specialist training in this area with the internationally respected and reknowned clinician, Dr Michael Yapko, for his work helping people recover from depression.

Hypnosis, using a combination of approaches and geared towards using a solution-orientated focus, this enables new strategies to be identified, learnt, developed and used in daily life as a method of overcoming this disorder thereby re-orientating a person back to healthier living, building specific strategies to encourage, empower and facilitate this process plus building life-long skills and resources for them to make healthier new choices in a future full of possibilities.

Depression in it’s general form can benefit greatly from hypnotherapy as a natural and safe means of resolving causes of issues and building self esteem/confidence.

There is a great deal of difference between what most people consider depression and the much rarer condition of clinical depression.

Clinical Depression is far more serious and outside help may well be beneficial also. Often clients that present with this issue will also be receiving prescribed medication and perhaps other therapy also. Hypnotherapy will benefit in building a positive outcome.

Your GP will be able to assess which of these conditions are applicable in a particular case when consulted for such. Whilst anxiety and depression may often appear to walk the same path and some may wonder which came first, the anxiety to cause the depression or depression resulting in anxiety however depression symptoms are somewhat different and often include the following although this is by no means exhaustive:-

Feelings of hopelessness

Because prescribed medication is often being taken during treatment for most types of depression, as treatment progresses successfully it is important to be aware that any reduction/cessation in medication is only undertaken in conjunction with your GP.

Using hypnotherapy is a natural and safe way to regain the freedom to lead a full and normal life once again.