Depression Counseling - Major Depressive Disorder

Overcome major depressive disorder and feel alive, energetic, motivated, positive and productive again.

What you'll learn
Get first hand insights from a MDD patient about depression
How to get insights from your clients that make your therapy effective
How to help your MDD client make progress with treatment plan
How to adapt to different clients tempraments and direct sessions
Learn from my unique insights that I gained by counseling MDD clients for years
Help difficult major depressive disorder patients make progress in each session with effective therapy tools.
Unique Evidence based exercises to provide to your MDD clients
Address the symptoms strategically & provide effective coping skills
Turn each lecture (insight) into one session of counseling
Get an understanding of common troubles and solutions of an MDD client
All insights & tools are 100% applicable in your practice
Requirements
Basic Counseling Skills
Description
About Instructor:Aman Varma has undergone accredited course training in CBT practitioner, Diploma in Hypnotherapy, Mental Health Practitioner, NLP Specialist Practitioner, Diploma in Psychological Counseling and Diploma in Modern Applied Psychology.Being sad is a normal human emotion. It’s natural to feel despondent when someone you love dies or you’re dealing with life-altering events such as an illness or divorce. While these challenges are never forgotten the subsequent emotional distress usually dissipates over a normal period of time. However, if your sadness is constant and intense and never seems to go away then you may be suffering from depression.Depression can drain your energy, leaving you feeling empty and fatigued. This can make it difficult to muster the strength or desire to seek treatment.However, there are small steps you can take to help you feel more in control and improve your overall sense of well-being.A lot of the work in treating depression is changing how you think. When you're depressed, you embrace worst-case scenarios and obsessively dwell on the negative. Challenging these negative thoughts is a common treatment for depression. You feel no one loves you, but what real evidence do you have? You think you’re a worthless horrible person, but is that really the truth? Try challenging these beliefs and ideas. When the thoughts come say, “no, we’re not doing this today.” When you’re telling yourself what a terrible person you are, think about how you would respond if a friend talked about themselves that way. You would probably tell them to stop being so negative. Apply the same logic to your own thoughts. It takes practice, but if you address the negative thoughts head-on, don’t embrace them, or indulge, they’ll eventually become less persuasive.In this course, I will share with you some of the key concepts that actually helped me overcome 5 years of depression (MDD) and cyclothymia.

Overview

Section 1: Setting up Counseling Sessions & Useful Insights

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Client's Problems & Session Goal Setting

Lecture 3 Solution to Client's Depression

Lecture 4 Helping Clients create new life

Lecture 5 Managing Expectations of Depressed Clients

Lecture 6 Hard-disk Analogy

Lecture 7 Principle of "ok to be good enough"

Lecture 8 Developing skill of overcoming depression

Lecture 9 4 key Insights - why depression persists

Section 2: DBT Skills for Counseling Depression Cases

Lecture 10 Section Intro

Lecture 11 4 Quadrants of life satisfaction

Lecture 12 Foundational Beliefs

Lecture 13 Emotion Monitoring Tool

Lecture 14 6 Steps to recognizing emotions

Lecture 15 Distress Tolerance Skills

Lecture 16 Distraction Skills

Lecture 17 Self Soothing Skills

Lecture 18 Mindfulness Skills

Lecture 19 Mindfulness Breathing

Lecture 20 Wise Mind

Lecture 21 Wise Mind Meditation

Section 3: Psychology of Depression

Lecture 22 Understanding suffering

Lecture 23 Overcoming Suffering

Lecture 24 Overcoming Common Hurdles

Section 4: Developing Self Compassion

Lecture 25 Treat yourself right

Lecture 26 How to allow yourself to make mistakes

Lecture 27 Let go of the resistance

Lecture 28 Be patient

Lecture 29 Taking care of your health

Lecture 30 Loving Compassion Meditation

Section 5: Bonus & Conclusion

Lecture 31 Spirituality for Interpersonal Skills

Lecture 32 Conclusion

Psychologists/Counselors who are having difficulty treating clients with MDD,Psychologists/Counselors who have started a new business and feel unclear how to proceed with MDD clients,Psychologists/Counselors if your practice is ineffective because you lack frameworks, insights, and worksheets for helping clients with MDD,Psychologists/Counselors who have never helped depressive clients