This course isn’t cheap but it is very comprehensive, covering every area of depression and enabling the therapist to have a real handle on depression. The course has given me confidence that I really can make a difference to depressed or anxious clients.
Your customer service is excellent. Uncommon U is a great resource. Even though I have never met Mark I feel as though he is a wise and helpful friend, like my supervisor, whom I do meet, of course; I hold them both in high esteem.
If there was one practical step that you could implement that enables your clients to fix themselves: this is the course for you. You not only get one practical step, you get a multiplicity of practical therapeutic interventions that work. Mark and Roger have honed their craft from years of working with clients. Take this course now; your clients will thank you and you will know that your work makes a difference. No mumbo jumbo, just stuff that works.
If you want to understand depression and help yourself or others experiencing it, then this is the course for you. A refreshing look at the subject which draws upon evidence-based practice and robust research with well-produced and up-to-date resources/PDFs.
I’m able to help my clients understand the cycle of depression and where antidepressants fit within a treatment plan (or not as in many of my clients’ experiences). Providing information about the purpose of sleeping and dreaming and REM sleep has helped clients recognise why they feel the way they feel, particularly showing that I understand their complete exhaustion in the morning. They feel so relieved that I ‘get it’ where they have not felt understood or listened to by their GP or MH professional.
I’ve had some great feedback from clients who report that their sleep has improved and they have more energy to do the things they used to enjoy. Also, quite a few have demanded a meds review from their GP (some have never had one in over 20 years of taking the same antidepressant – and they are still depressed!). When I see clients for a follow up session, they say how ‘it all makes sense now’ which I feel very privileged to have helped them gain this understanding.
Practical, sensitive, and friendly – you won’t be disappointed! Loved every second of the course and found the customer service excellent.
I looked forward to each Session and find I’m able to use the material in my practice daily. The course has been an invaluable addition to me as a practitioner – filling gaps in my knowledge (lots of ‘yes, that makes sense!’ moments), providing an evidence-based framework for treatment, and sparking the enthusiasm to take it out there and make a real difference. Mark and Roger have done a very good job indeed – as have the many of you involved in the course production and delivery.
Having finished the course I refocused on what I wanted to specialize in and now work exclusively on delivering How to Lift Depression Fast and The Rewind Technique, especially useful with anxiety, over-thinking, etc.
The results have been nothing short of outstanding and I am now something of a go-to person in our small community.
I have even worked with a very intelligent guy diagnosed with bipolar. When I asked him how long he had been living this way, he said it felt like forever, but when we did some work, he had only ever overheard it in a conversation between his mum and a consultant. It was only a possibility, but he adopted the identity and lived much of his life in this way. Once he found out about the cycle of depression, the joy on his face was incredible. He is finally off medication and has decided to keep on seeing me occasionally. Apparently he had been taking these meds for years over nothing more than a conversation with no necessity for it, how totally incredible is his story!
I not long ago completed the Lifting Depression Fast course. So far I have used the program officially once for Depression and had resounding results. My client was an 85 year old woman. Her daughter brought her to see me for severe insomnia whilst she was visiting her. It ended up being depression. After one session she understood what was happening to her. Within a week her sleeping, eating, exercise, self talk improved.
The second week she was reconnecting with old friends. Basic Human Needs. She was starting to request more attention from family, e.g. meals, taking her out to the farm, dropping in for more than 10 minutes, etc. She became more relaxed and more confident to the point where she could walk without fear of falling over and making decisions. She started to read again too.
Her inner strength came back which made her more resilient when her brother had passed away after the 2nd week of treatment.
Her doctor took her off blood pressure tablets after two weeks as she didn’t need to be on medication as it had reduced to normal! She found hard to as she was so attached to the medication she had taken for over 40 years and did a little reframing and she seems to be ok. She has returned to her home town where she lives so she only had two sessions.
Interestingly, this darling woman did not want to be hypnotised at all, so we just labelled it ‘relaxation’ and she was ok with that. There’s always a way to get around those pre-conceived myths! :-) I also gave her one of my own recorded hypnosis MP3s and some relaxation tracks. This helped her a lot. I doubt whether she has filled in her goal setting sheets (basic needs); however, she started addressing those needs that weren’t being met in her own way.
I have another few clients Ill be seeing over the next two weeks for the depression program so I have no doubt it will help them too.
I have used other parts of the program for other issues to help with goal setting – primal human needs etc, self talk, explanatory styles etc.
I loved this course and learnt a lot!
I just would like to thank you for the Lift Depression course I’ve just successfully completed. I enjoyed the structure immensely and liked the way it built in detail and complexity as the different modules were revealed, that and how the quiz at the end of each section carried questions on from previous sections.
I also appreciate that I’ve fair bit more to study with all the recommended reading, and to get to know the materials a lot better than I do right now before I would feel comfortable seeing someone coping with depression. That said…I can’t wait! (is it wrong to be excited about the chance to work with someone with depression?)
These aren’t just courses for counsellors and therapists – I feel I have an amazing, creative team around me supporting my practice in the most informative, engaging, and accessible way.
The course is easily accessible whenever I need it. The client sessions are invaluable in helping me to develop confidence in using the approach. The contact with other practitioners from so many disciplines is helpful as well as listening to the session reviews afterwards. The tests with audio and written material is so helpful. You keep it up to date and relevant and the courses are brilliant. Office staff are great. Just about everything you guys do is fantastic and you have become a part if my everyday life.
Thank you for providing the professional guidance that I was looking for. Thank you.
I’ve seen too many clients on medication that remain depressed. Your course gives them new hope.
There is more useful information about depression in this course than I learned in any at university! It is practical, sensible, and works!
How to Lift Depression Fast was one on the best courses I have ever done. It really provides a practical approach to working with clients experiencing the symptoms of depression. I would recommend this course to any professional who is working with this client base. The course provides a wealth of materials. I particularly found the recordings of the live monthly Q&A helpful. As a Counsellor who’s passionate about suicide prevention and supporting clients to move toward a full and rewarding life, I have found everything in this course to be extremely useful.
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